His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Plano, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 894 in Golden, Colorado; Company 2896 at White Rock Lake in Dallas, Texas; Company 3811 in Floydada, Texas; and Company 3802 in Morton, Texas; company move to Kings Canyon National Park in…
His experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1956-90. Education and childhood; military service in World War II; marriage; employment with post office; decision to buy home in Hamilton Park; church activities; Big Brothers involvement; presidency of Civic League; flood control measures; Civic League and community improvements; zoning…
For the Desegregating DFW Oral History Project. Attorney and Civil Rights advocate. Childhood in Arkansas; life during segregation; high school in Little Rock’s Dunbar High School; involvement in University of Arkansas’s integration; politics in Arkansas surrounding the Central High School integration; law practice in Arkansas and Dallas-Fort…
Alumna of North Texas State University. Childhood in rural East Texas; decision to attend North Texas; campus life; 1967 graduation with degree in library science; career in Dallas public schools.
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Timpson, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 2868 at Camp F-37-N in Dark Canyon, New Mexico; company move to Glorietta, New Mexico; description of camps; life in camps.
DAVIS, Anne. Founder (with husband Jack T. Davis) of Davis purity Bakery, Denton, Texas. Family background; Depression; purchase of purity Bakery; early learning experiences; equipment; products; commercial and institutional accounts; business fluctuations; sugar crisis; pricing; typical workday; credit policies.
DAVIS, Don. Son of founder of…
Davis, Wendy: For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Wendy Davis is a psychotherapist and psychologist, and executive director of Postpartum Support International (PSI). The interview centers on her history with maternal mental health/postpartum depression, her work running a support group in the 1980s (…
Electrician, businessman. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Dallas, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to camps in Madeira Canyon, near Tucson, Arizona; camp move to Pitkin, Colorado; re-enlistment for a camp in Tucson, Arizona; description of camps; life in camps.
College professor. Her experiences concerning the development of the Library School at Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas, 1940-70; her personal career in library science.
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Dallas, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to camps in Madeira Canyon, near Tucson, Arizona; camp move to Pitkin, Colorado; re-enlistment for a camp in Tucson, Arizona; description of camps; life in camps.
College instructor. His experiences while equipment manager for the football team during the desegregation of athletics at North Texas State College, 1956.
For the Mexican-American Women’s Educational Experience Oral History Project. Childhood memories of attending school; having children; attending college.
His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. First assignment to the battleship USS West Virginia and his experiences during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; assignment to the antiaircraft cruiser USS San Juan, 1942; naval battles around Guadalcanal; Battle of Savo Island; assignment to the destroyer USS…
Former member of the Texas House of Representatives (D-Austin). Memories of childhood and education in all-black schools of Chicago, Illinois; family involvement in Chicago politics; education at Fisk University; marriage to Exalton A. Delco, Jr., and his experience as first African American Ph.D. student in biology at UT-Austin; Exalton Delco’s…
Factory worker. Her experiences as a riveter at Armstrong Cork and Rubber Company, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, during World War II. Pre-war work experience in silk mills; effects of the Great Depression on her family; her employment at the Hamilton Watch Company assembling time fuses for bombs, 1942; her marriage to Clair Dellinger, 1942; her…
