Oral history interview with Bob Craig (transcript)

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Title Oral history interview with Bob Craig (transcript)
Creator Craig, Bob
Contributor Lopez, Ana; Genealogical Society Of Hispanic America, Fray Angelico Chavez Chapter
Date 2021-03-08
Spatial Coverage Pueblo, Pueblo, Colorado, United States
Subject Craig, Bob--Interviews; Pueblo (Colorado); Hispanic Americans; Racism against Hispanic Americans
Keywords Latinx Identity
Description Bob Craig discusses growing up in Pueblo, Colorado. He discusses his work in leadership for Genealogical Society of Hispanic Americans. He mentions his father was the Anglo side of his family and his mother was Hispanic and was raised in New Mexico. His father served in the military, and both his mother and father worked in the medical field. He also talks about being drafted during the Vietnam war and enlisting in the Air Force, and enrolling in college for Business Administration when he was done with his service. He remembers his grandfather's farm and visiting with his cousins. He talks about the transition to using punch cards for coding and punch card readers and printers in the 1970s, and the mainframes that were used to run financial software. He discusses issues with discrimination when he was growing up, and only having Hispanic friends, and how people would view issues of identity simplistically. He talks how speaking Spanish in schools resulted in punishment, and how he lost some of his language skills as a result.
Type Text
Genre oral histories (literary works)
Format application/pdf
Extent 8 pages
Rights
Rights Holder Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah
ARK ark:/87278/s65r9hmc
Collection Name Construyendo Latinidad
State Colorado
City Pueblo
Setname uum_cliw
ID 2517893
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s65r9hmc
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