His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-fourth Legislature. House speakership race; appropriations; committee appointments; strip mining bill; public school financing; public utilities legislation; constitutional revision; comments about Governor Dolph Briscoe.
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-sixth Legislature. Relationship with Governor William Clements; appropriations; tax relief; Peveto bill; consumer legislation; “Killer Bees”; split primary.
Attorney. His role as the attorney for the Richardson, Texas, independent school district during the integration of the Richardson and Hamilton Park schools during the 1960s and 1970s. His working relationship with Principals J. J. Pearce and Raymon Bynum; effect of Civil Rights Act of 1964; Response to H.E.W. guidelines; decisions of 5th Circuit…
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Uzbekistani-born immigrant to Dallas, Texas. Childhood in Uzbekistan; move to the U.S. at age eleven; transition to American school system; first impressions of the U.S.; mother’s family in Russia; transition of Uzbekistan from a Soviet satellite to an independent Muslim nation;…
Farmers. Their observations on land speculation, settlement, and development around Taft, Texas, 1910-30. Agrarian life; Mexican-Anglo relations; Ku Klux Klan.
Nan Alexander speaks about her time as a model and buyer in the Dallas fashion industry. Starting in the 1950s, Alexander served on the Neiman-Marcus teen board. Later in her career, she also worked for Neiman-Marcus in their flagship downtown location as a sportswear model, was trained in the junior executive program, assisted with Fortnight…
Engineer. His experiences as a fighter pilot in Italy during World War II. Enlistment in the Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; basic training at Camp Livingston, Louisiana, 1942; pre-flight training at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas, 1942-43; primary flight training at Waco, Texas, 1943; advanced flight training at Foster Field, Victoria…
Advertising executive. His experiences as a teenager during World War II; his experiences as a sailor during the last months of World War II. Early youth in Casper, Wyoming, 1933-42; his close relationship with his older brother; life in Casper during the Great Depression while living with his aunt and uncle; local reactions to the Japanese attack…
For the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. Pakistani-born immigrant to Mesquite, Texas; Professor of English at Eastfield College in Mesquite, Texas. Childhood in Pakistan and Dubai; education in Catholic Convent in Karachi, Dubai and in England and Richland College in Dallas, Texas and the University of Texas at Dallas; speaks…
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Louisiana and Mississippi; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 5415 at Camp F-5 in New Augusta, Mississippi; description of camp; life in camp.
Schoolteacher. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Pre-war duty in China with 4th Marines; fall of Corregidor and capture; Bilibid Prison, Manila; Cabanatuan, 1942; hell ship to Japan, 1942; Osaka, 1942-45, and American air raids; liberation.
Their experiences as residents of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1959-91. Segregated education in East Texas; decision to buy home in Hamilton Park; home improvements; zoning problems; PTA and other school involvement; Flooding problems; desegregation of Hamilton Park School; property restrictions; the “Buy Out.”
His experiences while temporarily assigned to the Submarine Base during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. (His permanent assignment was aboard the aircraft tender USS Avocet. He was attending signalman school at the Submarine Base).
Contractor. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Capture in the Mindanao jungle; Davao Penal Colony, 1942-43; hell ship to Japan, 1943; Tokyo, 1943; Yokkaichi, Honshu, 1944-45, and American air raids; liberation
Attorney. Her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1958-91. Education at Hamilton Park School; desegregation of Hamilton Park School; experiences at Richardson Junior High; experiences in law school at the University of Texas; relationships between Hamilton Park and other African-American communities; school activities as a teenager…
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Special Session of the Sixtieth Legislature. Revenue legislation; reform of liquor laws; increase in state sales tax; changes in House rules; beer and liquor lobby; comments about Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes; comments about other House members.
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Second Special Session of the Sixty-fifth Legislature. Influence of Proposition 13 in California; treasury surplus; comments about Governor Dolph Briscoe, Speaker Bill Clayton, and Lieutenant Governor Bill Hobby; personal reaction to the special session; repeal of sales tax on residential…
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Regular and Special Sessions of the Sixty-first Legislature. One-year versus two-year budget; revenue bills; comments about Lieutenant Governor Ben Barnes And Speaker Gus Mutscher; extension of state sales tax; Cavness Plan; minimum wage law; workman’s compensation; welfare legislation;…
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixtieth Legislature. Influence of lobbyists; House Rules; power of committee chairs; defeat of pari-mutuel betting bill; value of Texas Legislative Council; stand on annual legislative sessions; comments about African-American legislators Curtis Graves and Joe Lockridge; personal political…
Journalist, member of the Texas House of Representatives from Wichita Falls, son of former Governor James V. Allred, Democrat. His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-fourth Legislature. House speakership race; committee chairpersons; House rules; Equal Rights Amendment; establishment of Public Utilities Commission; public…
