Oral history interview with Olga Peña, 1997 [videorecording].

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Oral history interview with Olga Peña, 1997 [videorecording].

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Olga Peña begins with her family background and her early life and expresses her passion for performing traditional Mexican American dance, Ballet Folklórico, in San Antonio, Texas. She talks of the discrimination she and her former husband, Albert Peña, faced during their years in Houston and Pasadena, Texas before their return to San Antonio. She talks about their investigation of school discrimination in Hondo and Mathis, Texas. She refers to Albert Peña's campaign for state representative against Ray T. Felixson in the early 1950s, his run for Bexar County Commissioner in 1956, and his involvement in the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC). She discusses her grass roots campaigning, the poll tax, and the intimidation aimed at preventing Mexican American voter registration. She discusses their involvement in the American G.I. Forum and the Democratic conventions in the 1960s, and comments on Henry B. Gonzales, Adlai Stevenson, and her husband's law partner African American G. J. Sutton.

1 videocassette (VHS) (1 hr., 34 min.) : col. ; 1/2 in.Transcript : 51 p. ; 28 cm.

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University of Texas at Arlington, Central Library

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