Oral History Interview with Larry Running Turtle Salazar

Title: Oral History Interview with Larry Running Turtle Salazar
Creator: Civil Rights in Black and Brown (CRBB) Oral History Project
Description: In this oral history interview, Larry Running Turtle Salazar discusses his Cherokee and Mescalero Apache heritage and how his Indigenous identity influenced his upbringing in Corpus Christi, TX. Salazar speaks extensively about racist violence and discrimination perpetrated by school teachers and administrators against him and other Indigenous students during the 1960s-70s.
Date: June 7, 2016
Type: Oral histories
Subject: Indigenous peoples; Racism against Indigenous peoples; Education
Source: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library to The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries.