/internal/media/dispatcher/72555/fullMavis Belisle Oral History09/13/2010Duration: 59 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2010.001.01050Videotaped oral history interview with Mavis Belisle. A sophomore at the University of Texas at Austin in 1963, Belisle contributed to the university newspaper and was locally involved in the Civil Rights Movement. From 1966 to 1969, she served in the Peace Corps in Micronesia in the western Pacific.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on September 13, 2010 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-nine minutes long.
The video attached to this record is an excerpt. The entire interview is available in our Reading Room to on-site researchers or by submitting a Rights & Reproductions Request Form.Oral Histories639400E-100E-1032389Oral history0E-10Videotaped oral history interview with Mavis Belisle. A sophomore at the University of Texas at Austin in 1963, Belisle contributed to the university newspaper and was locally involved in the Civil Rights Movement. From 1966 to 1969, she served in the Peace Corps in Micronesia in the western Pacific.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on September 13, 2010 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-nine minutes long.Oral historiesStudentCivil rightsBelisle, MavisPeace CorpsAustinMicronesiaCivil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)Peace Corps (OHC)Due to her role as a recognized environmental activist, Belisle was interviewed in 2002 as part of the Texas Legacy Project of the Conservation History Association of Texas. Her oral history may be accessed here: Mavis Belisle - Texas Legacy. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator