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OH 0713
Librarian. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Coping with segregation in Denton; street paving in the African-American section of Denton; desegregation of North Texas State College; her college experiences; tutoring program; decision to join the Fellowship;…
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OH 1905
For the Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship Oral History Project. Childhood; civil rights victories; experiences of racism and segregation; Civil Rights Movement; family background; educational and professional background; Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship; Quakertown; continued community involvement; activism; contemporary civil rights…
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OH 1742
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Iranian-born immigrant now living in Plano, Texas. Childhood in Tehran, Iran; soccer career playing for the Iranian National Team and various club teams; reasons for immigrating to Dallas in 1977; reaction to Islamic Revolution; obtaining citizenship through marriage; years spent living in San…
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OH 0906
Holocaust survivor. Her experiences in Hungary and in various extermination camps during the Holocaust. Pre-World War II anti-Semitism; childhood and education; family religious life; forced labor battalions; confiscation of Jewish property; creation of Szeged Ghetto, 1944; everyday ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz, September, 1944;…
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OH 1619
Alumna of North Texas State University. Experiences growing up with racial segregation in Ennis, Texas; graduation from high school in 1956; initial decision to attend Prairie View A&M and subsequent decision to transfer to North Texas in 1958; experiences on campus at North Texas and rooming in the “Shack Town” neighborhood of Denton; 1961…
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OH 1920
For the Dallas LGBTQ Oral History Project. Remembering going to school at Texas A&M and experiencing his “sexual awaking”. Introduction to the Gay bar scene and gay community in Dallas. Recounting the AIDS epidemic in Dallas and the Dallas buyers’ club.
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OH 1152
Musician. His experiences as a member of the “Light Crust Doughboys” western swing band, 1935-1945. Early musical career as a banjo player in a traveling tent show; employment with the “Wanderers”; employment with the “Light Crust Doughboys”; comments about W. Lee (“Pappy”) O'Daniel; work with Gene Autry and Republic Pictures; acquiring the…
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MOODY, Ben (b. 1920) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, F Troop, 112th Cavalry, Texas National Guard

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OH 1559
His experiences in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. His youth during the Great Depression; his father’s leather shop in Kilgore, Texas, during the oil boom of the 1930s; influence of German leather carver Solon Aaron on his life; his education; his decision to join the Texas National Guard, November 18, 1940; his work in the…
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OH 1867
For the Crisis at Mansfield Online Archive. Mansfield High School integrator; pastor. Childhood in Fort Worth, Texas; experiences integrating Mansfield High School; resistance to integration; life during segregation; Mansfield in the 1950s; racism; theological training and ministry.
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OH 0024
Wife of former Governor Dan Moody. Personal diary recorded during her term as First Lady of Texas while residing in the Governor’s Mansion.
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OH 0025
Reminiscences of her husband’s political career; Al Smith campaign of 1928; Stevenson-Johnson senatorial race of 1948; excerpts from her Mansion Diary.
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MOODY, Sam B. (b. 1920) U.S. Army Air Forces WWII Veteran, Far East Air Force

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OH 1277
Survivor of the Bataan Death March. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Bataan and capture; Bataan Death March; Camp O'Donnell, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942; Clark Field, Manila, 1942; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1942-44; hell ship to Japan, 1944; Nagoya, Honshu, 1944-45; American air raids; liberation; his role…
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OH 0077
Retired farmer. Observations on land speculation, settlement, and development of the Coastal Bend area of South Texas, 1910-30. Agrarian social life; Mexican-Anglo relations; economy of the area; mule raising.
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OH 1212
Their reminiscences about the history of the African-American sections of Denton, Texas, 1910-85, and remembrances about their father, Frederick Douglass Moore, a renowned African-American educator in Denton, 1915-50. The original African- American section, “Quakertown,” and its origins; their early family history; Fred Moore's barbershop;…
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OH 0559
Football coach. His experiences as a member of the football team during the desegregation of athletics at North Texas State College, 1956.
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OH 0112
Retired schoolteacher. Her observations on the settlement and development of the Coastal Bend area of South Texas, 1900-20. Experiences as one of the first female students at Texas A & M University; experiences as a rural schoolteacher; rural social life; President William Howard Taft’s visit to La Quinta Ranch.
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OH 1804
For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Longtime publisher of the Dallas Voice and activist. Childhood in Hurst, Texas; college at Texas Tech; gay community in Lubbock, Texas, in the 1970s; various jobs around Dallas; Dallas Gay News; history of the Dallas Voice; Dallas gay community during the 1980s and lack of resources and acceptance;…
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MOORE, William E. (b. 1912) U.S. Army WWII Veteran

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OH 1221
His experiences with Headquarters Battery, 24th Infantry Division, Artillery, at Schofield Barracks during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
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MORBY, George W. (b. 1915) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 1453
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Worden during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; his subsequent experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His decision to enlist in the Navy, 1937; boot camp, San Diego, California, 1937; assignment to the Worden, 1937; stationing of the Worden at Pearl Harbor,…
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OH 1930
For the Dallas DREAMers Oral History Project. DREAM Team activist. Immigrating with her family from Monterey, Mexico at the age of five; being a role model to younger siblings; struggles in school with limited access of support for non-English speaking students; church involvement; early work life; invited to be the first Dreamer to speak to the…
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MORGAN, Alvin (b. 1916) U.S. Army WWII Veteran, 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard

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OH 1183
Member of the "Lost Battalion." His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Java and capture; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1944-45, and American air raids; liberation.
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MORGAN, Glenn T. (b. 1923) U.S. Navy WWII Veteran

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OH 1689
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Project. Survivor of the sinking of the USS Indianapolis. Childhood in Oklahoma, Illinois, and other locales; father’s work as an oil field machinist; enlistment in the U.S. Navy following 1941 high school graduation; boot camp; assignment to drum and bugle corps; marriage to Mertie Jo Morgan; December 1943…
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OH 1611
For the Arms Along the Border Oral History Project. Instructor for Outward Bound wilderness program in Redford, Texas. Experiences growing up in rural Pennsylvania; love of the outdoors; interactions with people of Redford; opinions regarding shooting of Esequiel Hernandez, Jr., and activities of U.S. Border Patrol.
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OH 1825
For the Desegregating DFW Oral History Project. Civil Rights activist and poet. Childhood in West Texas and Dallas-Fort Worth; family history; life during segregation; education; civil rights activism; process of desegregation; attending North Texas State University (now UNT); experiences with racism; poetry; John F. Kennedy assassination; church…
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OH 0119
Homemaker. Her observations on the settlement and development of the Coastal Bend area of South Texas, 1910-20. Immigration from western Kansas; clearing the land; cotton farming; race relations; hurricane of 1919; rural social life.
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