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Title	Soliz, Roy
Abstract	Roy Soliz was born in Houston where he graduated from Jefferson Davis High School and attended the University of Houston before fighting briefly in World War II. He was a well-known civic activist in the Hispanic, Mexican American, and Chicano communities of Houston. In the 1950s, he became involved in poll tax drives in these communities and also began working for the Harris County Democrats. Soliz was elected as a precinct judge in 1964 and was also a member of the Civic Action Committee and a founding member of the Levi Kennedy Johnson club, which became the Political Association of Spanish Speaking Organizations (PASO) in 1961. In this interview, Soliz speaks about the discrimination he faced as a young child, his experiences as a community organizer, and his part in the minimum wage march of 1961.
Title-Alternative	HMRC Oral History Collection
Date of Interview	April 11, 1980
Subjects	Soliz, Roy--Interviews ; Mexican American political organizers--Texas--Houston--Interviews ; Oral histories
Subject Keywords	Minimum wage march, 1966 ; Political Association of Spanish Speaking Organizations (PASSO, PASO)
Interviewee	Soliz, Roy
Interviewers	Thomas Kreneck
Original Format	Audio tape
Oral History Number	OH273
Language	English
Ownership Notice	The Houston Public Library retains the literary and publishing rights of its oral histories. No part of the interviews or transcripts may be downloaded or published without the written permission of the Houston Oral History Project.
Coverage-Spatial	Houston (Tex.)
Coverage-Temporal	1950s ; 1960s
Length of Interview	1 hr, 35 min
Type	Sound; Text
Format	Flash Video (FLV); Text
Relation-Is Part Of	HMRC Oral History Collection
Funding provided by	TexTreasures Grant

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