Oral history interview with Theda Rushing, 9 September 2005.

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Oral history interview with Theda Rushing, 9 September 2005.

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The collection consists of an oral interview with Theda Rushing, accompanied by her children, Jack D. Rushing and Bettie J. Rushing. The interview was conducted on September 9, 2005 by Michael T. Kelly and Virginia Seiser. The interview is transcribed. The topics of conversation focus primarily on Ann Nolan Clark, Sophie Aberle, Felix Cohen, and Theda Rushing's home-based sewing industry. Rushing worked as secretary for Dr. Sophie Aberle at the Albuquerque Indian School. The interview provides insight into Dr. Aberle's professional, and to a lesser extent, personal life, including Aberle's efforts to secure a County Indian Hospital. When her husband Jack relocated to Santa Fe, Aberle secured Mrs. Rushing a job at the Santa Fe Indian School, where she was Ann Nolan Clark's secretary and confidante for approximately 6 months. Rushing's impressions and reminiscences of Ann Nolan Clark are articulated in the interview. Theda Rushing also speaks about working with renowned Indian rights attorney Felix Cohen, on a project to secure the right for Native Americans to vote in New Mexico state elections. She describes secret meetings and plots that led to Cohen's success. Rushing also describes the evolution of her home-based sewing business, which included sewing fiesta dresses, designing embroidered ribbons, and sewing UNM's official 75th anniversary banner. Original audiocassettes are housed in CSWR vault. Compact disks are available in the collection for patron use.

1 folder (3 compact discs and transcript)

University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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SNAC Resource ID: 6926879

University of New Mexico-Main Campus

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Rushing, Theda,

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Theda Douglas Rushing was born on August 27, 1915, near Eufaula, OK. She attended Chilocco Indian Agricultural School (Chilocco, OK, 1934), and Haskell Institute (Lawrence, KS, 1936). She was employed with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, working in the Albuquerque and Santa Fe Indian Schools, and traveling to the northern Pueblo schools for site visits. She also worked for the United Pueblos Agency Branch of Plant Design and Construction, Albuquerque Area Office. Theda Douglas married Jack Rushing...

University of New Mexico.

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The University of New Mexico was established by the Legislative Assembly of the Territory of New Mexico in 1889. It was to be located in Albuquerque. Elias Stover was appointed the first president. The new institution opened in rented rooms as a summer normal school, June 15, 1892, beginning regular instruction on September 21st in the first building erected on the campus. In 1901 Dr. William G. Tight became president. He introduced the "Pueblo Style" architecture for the University buildings. U...

Aberle, Sophie D., 1899-

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Sophie D. Aberle, health researcher and administrator for Indian affairs, was born in Schenectady, New York on July 21, 1896. She received a Ph. D.from Stanford University in1927 and an M.D. from Yale in 1930. Aberleserved as Superintendent of the United Pueblos Agency, 1935-1944 andExecutive Director of the Commission on the Rights, Liberties andResponsibilities of the American Indian, 1959-1966. She died in Albuquerquein 1996. From the description of Papers, 1913-1987. (University ...

Kelly, Michael T.

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Cohen, Felix S., 1907-1953

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Felix Solomon Cohen (1907-1953), lawyer; assistant and associate solictor, Department of Interior; professor of jurisprudence at Yale and The City College of New York; scholar on law, ethics and philosophy, and civil rights of Native Americans and other minorities. From the description of Felix S. Cohen papers addition, 1927-1960 (bulk 1931-1953). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 702183050 From the description of Felix S. Cohen papers, 1916-1992. (Unknown). WorldCat record id:...

Clark, Ann Nolan, 1896-1995

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New Mexico teacher of Native American and Latin American children, and award-winning author. From the description of Ann Nolan Clark manuscript, 1969. (New Mexico State University). WorldCat record id: 45007112 American author of children's books. Worked as educational specialist, U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1920-1962, as a teacher and author of textbooks; also worked for the Institute of Inter-American Affairs in Central and South America, 1945-1950, writing reading mate...