His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Jack County, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Baggs, Wyoming; description of camp; life in camp.
For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. Farmer. His reminiscences about rural life in Denton County, Texas, 1920-1987. Changing crop patterns; development of larger farms and agricultural operations; Simpson’s sawmill; threshing season; rural migration to towns and cities.
Attorney. His experiences as private secretary to Governor Miriam A. Ferguson, 1925-27, 1933-35; his relationship with James E. Ferguson; comments about Governors Pat Neff, Dan Moody, James Allred, W. Lee O’Daniel, and Coke Stevenson; Johnson-Stevenson senatorial race of 1948; impeachment of James Ferguson.
Co-owners and operators of Selby Florist, Denton, Texas.
SELBY, Lewis Marie. Family background; education; Depression; teaching career; marriage; entering family business.
SELBY, R. L., Jr. Family background; education; Depression; work as youth in father’s nursery; full-time entry into family business.
SELBY, R. L. and Lewis Marie (joint…
Business executive. His experiences as a pilot trainee in the United States during World War II. Life in Wrightsville, Pennsylvania, during the Great Depression; the decision of the twin Silar brothers to enter the Aviation Cadet Program, 1942; basic training, Miami Beach, Florida, 1943; Air Crew Student Training, Centre College, Danville,…
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. World War II veteran and flight instructor to the Tuskegee Airmen. Childhood and early education in Fort Worth, Texas; early love of flying; decision to attend Tuskegee Institute and 1940 graduation; participation in Civilian Pilot Training Program; employment at Tuskegee’s Moton Field as…
His experiences as a demolitions expert in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Education in West Texas; his work as an oil well shooter in the West Texas oil fields, 1930s; enlistment in the Army, 1941; assignment to the 12th Cavalry Regiment, Fort Brown, Brownsville, Texas, 1941-43; transfer to the 124th Cavalry and assignment to…
Political consultant. Her role in the development of the Republican Party in Texas, 1967-93. Volunteer campaign work; political director of John Tower’s senatorial campaign, 1978; activities with Texas Federation of Republican Women’s Clubs; evolving role of women in political campaigns; decision to become a political consultant; her conservative…
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Dallas, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to SP-7-C in Rifle, Colorado; camp move to SP-10-C in Glenwood Springs, Colorado; reenlistment to a camp in Mesquite, Texas; description of camps; life in camps.
Real estate developer. His experiences concerning the Texas International Pop Festival, Lewisville, Texas, August 30-September 1, 1969. The influence of the Great Depression and World War II on his parents’ values; car-racing as a teenager in Lubbock, Texas; changing dress styles of the Sixties; influence of the Beatles; influence of Led Zeppelin…
For the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. Chinese-born immigrant to Plano, Texas. Childhood in China; education; family dynamics in China compared to United States; children; decision to immigrate; Chinese culture; importance of language; American parenting; importance of religion and family; community building in Plano; Chinese…
Administrator. Childhood in St. Louis, Missouri; draft into infantry; basic training; deployment to the European theater; Battle of the Bulge; attending University in France; return stateside; post-war life; veterans group involvement.
Medical doctor and professor. Childhood in New York; educational and professional background; WWII military service; assignment to 98th General Hospital in Munich, Germany; post-war Germany; testimony at Nazi war crimes trial in Dachau, Germany; Nazi medical practices and racial theory; post-service career in academic medicine; UT Southwestern…
For the Mexican American Women’s Educational Experience Oral History Project. Second generation of Bermejo women. Recollections of schooling in Fort Worth, Texas; scholastic structure of home life; cultural expectations and limitations on education; meaning of high school graduation; educational goals for children; role in sending children to…
For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Businessman and long-time Dallas LGBT activist. Childhood in Cambridge, England; first realization of being gay; being gay in the post-World War II Royal Air Force; immigration to the U.S. in 1956; Texas gay rights movement; Human Rights Foundation; activism in the Dallas LGBT community; rejection of…
For the Dallas LGBTQ Oral History Project. Their lives prior to meeting. Injustices experienced by being gay. How they met in Dallas in 1961. Recalling the gay bar scene in Dallas and the gay movement in Dallas. Evans and Harris were the first same-sex couple to be married in Dallas County, in a civil ceremony, following the U. S. Supreme Court’s…
Laszlo, Gail: Flight Attendant. 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 and family members. Content includes personal reflections of Braniff’s impact on…
UNT professor of jazz studies. His youth in Baltimore, Maryland, during the 1960s and 1970s including his music education at Baltimore County Public Schools, and the musical influence of the Left Bank Jazz Society. His experience as a UNT student in the jazz studies and music theory programs (1981-1986), playing saxophone in the One O’clock Lab…
Naomie Rudelson shares experiences as a retailing executive whose career grew in the Dallas fashion scene. While her first fashion experiences were working at Gus Mayer in New Orleans and then working at Dalton’s while attending Louisiana State University, shortly after graduation she moved to Dallas to complete a junior executive training…
For the Mexican American Women’s Educational Experience Oral History Project. Childhood and educational experiences in Dallas; college experiences at Texas Woman's University; and experiences as a PHD student in the UNT Department of History as a first generation student of Mexican immigrant parents, originally form the state of Durango;…
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Vietnam War veteran. Childhood in Brook Park, Ohio; decisions to drop out of high school and to enlist in the U.S. Army; basic training at Ft. McClellan, Ala.,; clerical training; assignment to Ft. Huachuca, Ariz. and base in Heidelberg, Germany; “coming out” experience with self and with…
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;…
Her recollections about the African-American community in Texarkana, Texas, 1931-94; marriage customs; farm work; diet; birthing and child delivery; courting practices; education; cooking; child-rearing.
