Dunnington, Lydia. Participant in Our Stories, Our Justice, a participatory storytelling project that centers individuals and their communities in a collective effort to (re)produce oral and visual histories that shine light on a continuum of radical leadership by BIPOC and marginalized women.
Anesthetist. His experiences as an Army nurse in Vietnam, 1969-70. Assignment to an Army hospital in Saigon; personal living accommodations and creature comforts; hospital facilities; relationship between doctors and nurses; work schedules; alcohol abuse by military personnel; drug problems; off-duty activities; rest and recuperation trip to…
His experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1966-90. Youth in Dallas; service in U.S. military in World War II; musical career; decision to buy home in Hamilton Park; home improvements; church activities; desegregation of Hamilton Park School; Pacesetter; commercial encroachment; the “Buy Out.”
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Colombian-born immigrant to Rockwall, Texas. Family background and the risks that accompanied being financially successful in Colombia during the Colombian civil war. Guerrilla violence in Colombia in the 1980s and 1990s; experience as an exchange student to Illinois in 1992; expectations…
For the Desegregating DFW Oral History Project. Career Navigator for the Empowering Families Project (Catholic Charities) and Hispanic community activist. Childhood in Fort Worth, Texas; witnessing discrimination against African Americans; navigating an Anglo-dominated world as a Mexican American; experiencing discrimination; participation in…
For the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. Argentinian-born immigrant to Dallas, Texas; Entrepreneur and businessman. Childhood in Buenos Aires; educational and work history; living in Puerto Rico; visits to New York; immigration process; differences between Argentina and the United States; becoming American; thoughts on current…
For the American History: Voluntary Simplicity Oral History Project. Homesteader and simple life advocate. Childhood in Maine; memories of the Nearings; homesteading.
Her experiences concerning the establishment of the Women's Studies Program at the University of North Texas. Her early introduction to feminism while a student at Texas Christian University, 1980s; activities with Planned Parenthood in Fort Worth; activities with Choice Dallas; involvement with the North Texas Democrats and Ann Richards's…
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in South Carolina; joining the CCC; assignment to Black Gap Camp in the Smokey Mountains near Waynesville, North Carolina and Company 443 at Camp Buie in South Carolina; camp move to Switzer, South Carolina; reassignment to Company 3450 at Camp…
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Texas and Oklahoma; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 870 near Cache, Oklahoma; description of camp; life in camp.
Mortician, member of the Texas House of Representatives from Houston, Republican. His experiences and personal views as a member of the Regular and First Special Session of the Sixty-second Legislature. Revenue bills; corporate profits tax; Sharpstown stock-fraud scandal; legislative ethics; “Dirty Thirty”; appropriations; redistricting; personal…
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Second, Third, and Fourth Special Sessions of the Sixty-second Legislature. House Speakership race; House rules reform; appropriations bill; insurance legislation; comments about Governor Preston Smith.
For the DFW Immigration Oral History Project. Childhood growing up in Mexico City, Mexico; moving to a border town and eventually moving to Texas in 2004; school life attending ESL classes; working as an undocumented immigrant; process of applying for DREAM Act, DACA.
One of the founders of Lilly Ice Cream Company, Bryan, Texas. Family background; teaching in Pioneer, Texas; employment as principal of Jacksboro, Texas public school; work in ice plant in Commerce, Texas; partnership in Lilly ice cream business in Navasota, Texas, 1927; comments on ice cream-making process; sale and marketing of ice cream;…
Clerk. His experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1956-90. Bus service and shopping; social life; church activities; zoning problems; Civic League; the “Buy Out”; school desegregation; interorganizational council and political activities.
Truck driver. His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Oklahoma and Colorado; joining the CCC; assignment to camps in Sentinel, Oklahoma and Saratoga, Wyoming; description of camps; life in camps.
Educator. His experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1956-90. Youth in East Texas; military service in World War II; employment with Dallas Independent School District; segregated housing in Dallas; decision to purchase home in Hamilton Park; home improvements; zoning problems; activities with Civic League; shopping areas;…
Chemist. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans after being shot down over Nazi-occupied Europe during World War II. Rescue by Belgian underground; capture and interrogation, 1944; solitary confinement; Stalag Luft 3, Sagan, Germany; Nurnberg and Moosburg, 1945; liberation by American troops.
