Oral history interview with Charles Cotrell, 1996 [videorecording].

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Oral history interview with Charles Cotrell, 1996 [videorecording].

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Dr. Cotrell describes his early relationships with Mexican American friends and neighbors and gives a brief overview of his education. He discusses the Mexican American student activism he witnessed and supported as a professor at Texas A & I and St. Mary's universities, and gives his opinion about why those campuses and communities generated such activity. Dr. Cotrell speaks of the formation of PASO (Political Association of Spanish-Speaking Organizations) and MAYO (Mexican American Youth Organization) and describes his role therein as that of guide and supporter of the involved students (who included José Angel Gutiérrez) and their ideas. He briefly discusses his participation in the Mexican American Unity Council (MAUC). He analyzes the importance of the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (and its 1975 and 1982 extensions) in bringing the Mexican American community and other minority groups into the mainstream of the electoral process. Dr. Cotrell talks of San Antonio and Bexar County politics and leaders, devoting the most detail to Henry Cisneros and María Antonietta Berriozábal (CMAS No. 33). He laments the lack of dominant leadership figures and the effects of political term limits on the development of Mexican American leaders. In conclusion, Dr. Cotrell speaks of his hopes for and doubts about San Antonio's future.

1 videocassette (VHS) (2 hr., 3 min.) : col. ; 1/2 in.Transcript : 47 p. ; 28 cm.

University of Texas at Arlington, Central Library

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University of Texas at Arlington, Central Library

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