Payne, Yolanda Carrillo 2022-09-17
This interview features Yolanda Carrillo Payne as she discusses her life growing up before she moves on to recount her career and volunteer work. Payne describes her childhood and her parents before discussing segregation and desegregation in Fort Stockton. She recalls her job as a teacher’s aide before becoming a translator. Payne explaining her brothers and uncles’ military history during World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Vietnam War.
General Interview Information
Interviewee Name: Yolanda Carrillo Payne
Additional Parties Recorded:
Date: September 17, 2022
Location: Fort Stockton, Texas
Interviewer: Tai Kreidler
Length: 01:29:35 (1 hour 29 minutes)
Abstract
Introduction and family background; Memories of attending school; school friends; Desegregation; Respect for elders; preparing food; Being a translator; her mother’s job as a seamstress; Marrying her husband and his job; living in Dallas; Giving back to the community; retirement and returning to Fort Stockton; Seeing injustice while working in the courts; how she became a translator; Protesting injustice in the courts; working in a funeral home; Her family’s military history
Access Information
Original Recording Format: born digital
Recording Format Notes: patrons may listen to audio in our reading room
Transcript: transcript available on dspace < >
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