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OH 1655
For the Texas Textile Mill Oral History Project. Longtime resident of McKinney, Texas. Childhood and education in all-black McKinney schools; nursing education at Prairie View A&M College and McKinney City County Hospital; career at Ashburn Veterans Administration hospital, Cook County (Illinois) Hospital; history of McKinney black community…
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OH 0460
Attorney, environmentalist. His comments and observations concerning water basin development in Texas. Citizen’s Environmental Coalition; Wallisville lawsuit; Citizens Against Water Taxes (CAWT); Trinity River Barge Canal; Texas Environmental Coalition (TEC); comments about Ned Fritz, J. R. Parten, Bill Clayton, Sierra Club.
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OH 0980
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in the Midwest and Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 901 at Pine Valley, California; description of camp; camp life.
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OH 1547
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Coleman County, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Mesa Verda, Colorado; description of camp; life in camp.
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HEPBURN, Stuart (b. 1924) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran, USS Talbot

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OH 1186
His experiences aboard the destroyer (later attack transport) USS Talbot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Aleutians operations, 1942; conversion of the Talbot into an attack transport, 1943; operations in the Solomon Islands, 1943; island landings of Marine Raiders, Army Rangers, and underwater demolition teams on New Georgia, Vella…
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OH 1774
For the Mexican American Women’s Educational Experience Oral History Project. Second generation of Bermejo women. Recollections of schooling in Fort Worth, Texas; consequences of not having a higher education; sending daughter to college; lack of emphasis on Latinas attending college; results of cultural factors on education.
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OH 1865
For the Dallas DREAMers Oral History Project. DREAM Team activist. Childhood in Mexico; immigration to the United States; becoming American; attending college while undocumented; activism and the North Texas DREAM Team; Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA); resistance to the DREAM Act; debate over immigration law/reform; American…
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HERRMANN, William (b. 1922) U.S. Army Air Force WWII Veteran, 719th Bomb Squadron, 449th Bomb Group, 15th Air Force

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OH 1545
Physicist. His experiences as a B-24 navigator in the Mediterranean and European Theaters during World War II. His decision to join the Enlisted Reserve Corps while a student at the University of Massachusetts, September, 1942; call to active duty, March, 1943, and Army basic training at Kearns, Utah; decision to volunteer for Aviation Cadet…
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OH 1217
Copper craftswoman. Her reminiscences and childhood memories of her brothers, the architect O’Neil Ford, and the cabinetmaker Lynn Ford. Childhood games and construction projects; amateur theatrical presentations; design and construction of the Little Chapel in the Woods, Texas Woman's University, Denton, Texas, by the National Youth…
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HESS, William P. (b. 1920) U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran, 384th Fighter Squadron, 364th Fighter Group, 8th Air Force

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OH 1281
Crop duster, businessman. His experiences as a fighter pilot in the European Theater during World War II. Early interest in flying and aviation; employment at Consolidated Aircraft in San Diego, California, 1939-42; enlistment in the Army Air Forces, 1942; Aviation Cadet Program, 1942-43; primary flight school, Visalia, California, 1943; basic…
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OH 1458
For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. His description of farm property during a driving tour of Denton County, Texas, 1987. Comments about buildings; identification of various landowners and their holdings; description of Vaughn Town.
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HEWETT, Leslie (b. 1920) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 1128
His experiences while aboard the submarine USS Pargo in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
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OH 0851
Librarian. Her experiences in the development of the Music Library at North Texas State College, 1940-65.
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OH 1871
For the Crisis at Mansfield Online Archive. Longtime African American resident of Mansfield, Texas. Family history; childhood memories of Mansfield; segregation in social life and in public education; memories of teachers in Mansfield’s black school; attendance at I.M. Terrell; memories of Mansfield Crisis; NAACP activity in Mansfield; career with…
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HIGHTOWER, Isaac (b.1920) U.S. Army Air Corps WWII Veteran

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OH 1649
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. World War II-era Army Air Corps pilot. Childhood in Fort Worth; education in Fort Worth schools and at Texas Christian University; decision to enroll in Army Air Corps; training at bases in San Antonio, Greenville, and Waco, Tex.; assignment to B-26 unit, and later to B-17 unit; service…
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HILL, D. D. (b. 1921) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0786
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Dewey during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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OH 1625
For the Quakertown Oral History Project. Son of residents of Denton’s historic all-black Quakertown neighborhood. Experiences of his parents, Othella and T.C. Hill, and other family members who were forced to move from the all-black Quakertown neighborhood of Denton; career in U.S. Army and as an undertaker in Denton; Quakertown in family’s…
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OH 1664
For the Texas Textile Mill Oral History Project. Former employee of the Texas Textile Mill. Childhood in McKinney, Texas; family’s experience in the Great Depression; decision to drop out of school to work in the mill at age of sixteen; lay-off due to new child labor laws, and decision to go to work at Wilson’s Grocery Store and later at Cole’s…
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HILL, John (b. 1912) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran, USS Boise

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OH 1381
Businessman. His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Enlistment in the Navy, December, 1941; assignment as a radio communications officer; duty on an LST around Kavieng; construction of a radio station on Emirau; transfer to the cruiser USS Boise, 1944; personal observations about General Douglas A. MacArthur; Battle of Leyte…
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OH 2105

For the UNT Multicultural Center Oral History Project. Tenth director of the office at University of North Texas assigned to address cultural services. Dr. Hill discusses the Cultural Center’s development and programming during her tenant, student protests, and student development. This interview is part of a series that chronicles the…

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OH 1893
For the Oral History Association Archive Oral History Project. Oral historian and educator. Childhood in Pittsfield, Massachusetts; family history; educational and professional background; Brother Blue (Hugh Morgan Hill); experiences in the South; storytelling with Blue; work at the Schlesinger Library; Black Women’s Oral History Project; various…
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OH 0685
Retired schoolteacher. His experiences concerning race relations in Sherman, Texas, 1915-30. Lynching of George Hughes in Sherman, 1930; recollections about the African-American business and professional community in Sherman; Ku Klux Klan marches.
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HILL, William D. (b. 1919) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0588
His experiences while aboard the cruiser USS Raleigh during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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HILL, Woodrow (b. 1918) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 0727
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS Nevada during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor in December 7, 1941.
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HILLIARD, Larry S. (b. 1947) U.S. Army Vietnam Veteran, Nurse Corps

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OH 0930
His experiences as a nurse in Vietnam, 1970-71. Assignment to 18th surgical Hospital, Quang Tri; typical workday; off-duty recreation; treatment of combat casualties; equipment and blood shortages; drug problems; morale; communications with his family; leave policies; work with Vietnamese civilians; treating enemy POWs; “short-time”; lasting…
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