Brownsville History Harvest 2017
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Newspaper clipping and draft of article - WWII Veteran's Day Tribute - Pharr's four Gonzalez brothers
Pat Gonzalez
Newspaper clipping and draft of article - WWII Veteran's Day Tribute - Pharr's four Gonzalez brothers; Leo Gonzalez, Johnny Gonzalez, Gilbert Gonzalez, Patricio Gonzalez, as well as Antonio Alvarez, Medardo Perez, Daniel Ramirez, Emmanuel Ramirez, and Esequiel Guajardo. Portraits of the men, stories, brief biographies, recollections, and photographs taken during the war are included in the pages.
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Event photographs
Color photographs. Brownsville History Harvest 2017 event photographs include digitization volunteers, UTRGV faculty and staff who helped organize the event, oral interview participants, and musicians.
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Joe and Rosa Perez ballad performance, Dionicio Maldonado
Año de mil novecientos fecha buena el día primero.
Mataron tres Mexicanos esos rinches de Laredo.
Cuando llegaron a Bruni Las puertas tenían candado.
El que fue a pedir las llaves fue Dionicio Maldonado
Cuando ya abrieron las puertas Aguilar ya estaba herido.
"Fuerzas son las que me faltan valor siempre lo he tenido."
Oliveira como era hombre le dio riendas a su caballo.
"Éntreles rinches cobardes a pelear con este gallo."
Un rinche que estaba allí corazon de una gallina.
Salió corriendo pa' afuera cuando vio una carabina.
Si les preguntan sus nombres, no la vayan a negar fue Dionisio Maldonado, Oliveira y Aguilar.
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Joe and Rosa Perez ballad performance, Gregorio Cortez
As ashes flow along the Rio Bravo
Where it spills into the Gulf of Mexico
Cenizas se revuelven por los mares
Y un muerto sigue su destinación
On a ranch across the border in Tamaulipas
An old man calls his memory from afar
From the days his father sang the old corridos
While Americo Paredes played guitar
They sang about the Tequileros, contrabandos y traiciones from the past
El corrido de Jacinto Trevino
And the ballad of Gregorio Cortez
Corridos que devuelven la memoria
Con paso de regreso al corazón
Cenizas se revuelven con los mares
Y un muerto sigue su destinación
To sing the ballad of los Tequileros, contrabandos, y traiciones from the past
El corrido de Jacinto Trevino
And the ballad of Gregorio Cortez
And the ballad of Gregorio Cortez
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Joe and Rosa Perez ballad performance, Los Sediciosos
En mil novecientos quince que días tan calurosos
Voy a cantar estos versos, versos de los sediciosos
Ya la mecha está encendida por los puros Mexicanos
Y los que van a pagar las son los México-Tejanos
Decía Aniceto Pizana en su caballo cantando
Donde estan por hay los rinches que los vengo visitando
Gritaba Teodoro Fuentes hay que pasar por Mercedes
Para enseñarles a los rinches que con nosotros no pueden
Pues pasaron por Mercedes y También por San benito
Iban a tumbar el tren a ese depot en Olmito
Ya se van los sediciosos ya se van de retirada
De recuerdos nos dejaron una veta colorada
Ya se van los sediciosos ya se van de retirada
De recuerdos nos dejaron una veta colorada
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Resilience en el Valle: Remembering the Matanza of 1915 flyer
Flyer containing descriptions, order of events, and presenters.
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Interview with Ricardo M. Cantu
Ricardo M. Cantu and Kelly Saenz
Ricardo M. Cantu talks about growing up in the Rio Grande Valley, his father's work with the Valley Fruit Company, Hurricane Beulah, his time as a Disc Jockey in KURV and KRGV, academics, the Pharr Riot, and discrimination he has faced as a Hispanic. Interview conducted on October 14, 2017 by Kelly Saenz in Brownsville, Texas. Ricardo passed away on August 12, 2020.
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Interview with Juanita Rosales Cantu
Juanita Rosales Cantu and Robert A. Hinojosa
Juanita Rosales Cantu born on April 21, 1950, talks about her life, including: her childhood, working as a migrant worker, her battle with breast cancer, medicine in the United States, her time as a mother, language exams to enter Pan American College, University of Texas Pan American, pesticide related illnesses, and her time working with U.S. Customs Service. She also tells of family stories, including: bootlegging, violence against Hispanics, and U.S. Customs Service.
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Documents and correspondence pertaining to Dr. Irene Ledesma
Documents and correspondence pertaining to Dr. Irene Ledesma, a former UTPA professor. Juanita Cantu includes a letter to the editor containing a brief biography of Irene, an article written by Dr. Ledesma titled, Texas Newspapers and Chicana Workers' Activism, 1919-1974 [https://doi.org/10.2307/970655], and guidelines for the Irene Ledesma Prize for Ph.D. graduate student research in the history of women in the American West.
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Transcript of U.S. Corp. of Engineers member, Patricio Gonzalez, talking about World War II and a wing piece belonging to a Lockheed YP-38 American aircraft fighter
Patricio Gonzalez
Transcript of U.S. Corp. of Engineers member, Patricio Gonzalez, talking about World War II and a wing piece belonging to a Lockheed YP-38 American aircraft fighter.
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Newspaper clipping regarding Jacinto Treviño
Newspaper clipping regarding Jacinto Treviño who apparently killed Jimmy Darwin and another man in Los Indios, Texas on May 28, 1910. Article is titled "Jacinto Treviño rides again"; published in the Valley Morning Star.
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Newspaper clippings - Rosales siblings recall Pearl Harbor
Maro Robbins
Newspaper clippings regarding four Rosales siblings of Pharr, Texas recalling the attack of Pearl Harbor. The names of the four brothers are: Jose Rosales, Francisco Rosales, Juan Rosales, and Israel Rosales.