Daughter of Charles S. South, former Vice President and Administrative Head of Braniff’s Latin-American Division. The in-flight and ground experiences of Braniff International Airways by Abra Schnur through a collection of former Braniff employee interviews. Interviewees include flight attendants, pilots, ticket agents, ground crew, executives…

His experiences as a student at the Frederick Douglass Colored School, Denton, Texas, 1926-32.

Schoolteacher. Her experiences at the Frederick Douglass Colored School, Denton, Texas, 1949-69. Relationship with students; church activities; comments about Principal Fred Moore.

For the Texas Textile Mill Oral History Project. Former employee of the Texas Textile Mill and longtime resident of McKinney, Texas. Nature of clerical work at the mill; memories of various mill products; memories of various mill employees.

Banker. Family background; boyhood work experiences; education; first job in banking; rise to bank president; early banking practices, equipment, laws; evolution of banking business; Depression; retirement and move to Denton, Texas, 1951; membership on bank boards; comments on banking in Denton through 1978; other business interests.

His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Brazos, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to BR-83-W in Veteran, Wyoming; reenlistment to F-2-N in Apache Creek, New Mexico; transfer to Conchas Dam near Tucumcari, New Mexico; description of camps; life in camps.

His experiences at Fort Shafter with the 64th Coast Artillery during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

Owner and operator of Joe’s Cleaners, Denton, Texas. Family background; early work experiences; education; work as youth in cleaning shop; opening Joe’s Cleaners, 1944; decline of dry cleaning business; his unique credit system; importance of self-employment; other business ventures; dealings with City of Denton; history of his business.

For the Crisis at Mansfield Online Archive. Longtime African American resident of Mansfield, Texas. Childhood memories of Mansfield; segregation in social life and in public education; attendance at I.M. Terrell; desegregating Mansfield High; memories of Mansfield Crisis; education at UT-Arlington; career in Mansfield ISD; organizing Juneteenth…

His experiences with the 11th Bomb Group at Hickam Field during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Zimbabwean-born immigrant to North Texas. Politics in Zimbabwe; Robert Mugabe; Rhodesia; farm seizures; HIV-AIDS; English as a Second Language; U.S. immigration policy; education at Richland College; modern Africa, Zimbabwe independence, 1980.