Mexican-American Oral History Project: Interview with Juan Rodriguez

Titles: Mexican-American Oral History Project: Interview with Juan Rodriguez (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Juan "Johnnie" Rodriguez was born in Crystal City, Texas, on Aug. 27, 1930, and worked as a migrant worker in Minnesota from 1941, at age eleven, until 1948. He entered the military during the Korean War and returned to Minnesota in 1954, settling in Moorhead as an employee on a wheat farm. His later activities included being director of Migrant Health Services, Inc. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Personal history; migrant work; his work at Migrant Health Services, Inc.; farm duties and responsibilities; financial arrangements with farmers; reasons for teaching Spanish to his children; and his expectations of his children. COMMENTS ON INTERVIEW: In Spanish, transcribed into English.

Dates

• 07/14/1976 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Rodriguez, Juan
• interviewer: Saucedo, Ramedo J.

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 49
• Accession Number: AV1996.92.61

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Mexican-American Oral History Project' <OH 49>

Quantity: 1 hour sound cassette 7 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 00:28:00 running time

Subjects

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