Dr. Carlos Muñoz Jr. Oral History
Object number2021.001.0040
Date06/03/2021
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Dr. Carlos Muñoz Jr.
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file), Born digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file)
DimensionsDuration: 46 Minutes
Terms
- Oral histories
- Presidential campaign
- 1960s
- 1960 presidential election
- Mexico
- Author
- Civil rights
- Protests
- Social and political climate
- Racism
- Chavez, Cesar
- El Paso
- Berkeley
- 1960 Campaign (OHC)
- Authors, Filmmakers, and Researchers (OHC)
- Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)
- Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)
- Chicano History and Culture (OHC)
Collections
- All Online Objects
- Oral History Collection
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Dr. Carlos Muñoz Jr. A native of El Segundo Barrio in El Paso, Muñoz was a founding leader of the Chicano civil rights movement and a friend of Cesar Chavez. Author of several pioneering works about the Mexican American experience, including the award-winning "Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement" (1989), Muñoz is professor emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley.
Interview conducted via Zoom on June 3, 2021 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is forty-six minutes long.
Curatorial CommentaryAs of 2025, Dr. Muñoz
is professor emeritus of Chicanx Latinx studies at the University of California, Berkeley, where he was the founding chair of the first Chicano Studies department. His seminal 1989 work, Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement, won the Gustavus Myers Book Award and was a major resource for the PBS television series, Chicano! History of the Mexican American Civil Rights Movement (1996) and the HBO original movie, Walkout (2006). - Stephen Fagin, Curator
