For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Educator, politician, and LGBT rights advocate. Graduate school experience; gay community; memories of Donald Baker; discrimination against gay men in the public school system; struggle for LGBT civil rights; childhood and young adult years; family history; work within the gay community; Dallas Women’s…
Electrical engineer. His experiences with a searchlight/radar battery, 251st Coast Artillery Regiment, at Camp Malekole during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; brief descriptions of his later experiences at Bougainville, 1943-44, and Luzon, 1945.
Physician. His observations and experiences concerning the medical history of the Coastal Bend area of South Texas, 1952-72. Hospitals; medical costs; county health officer, 1944-55; Hurricane Carla; Aransas County Emergency Corps; school integration; education system; Boy Scouts.
Veteran of the World War II Pacific Theater. Decision to join U.S. the Navy in January 1941. Experiences in service prior to declaration of war; service at Cavite Naval Shipyard, Philippines; capture during a battle on the island of Corregidor; reflections on surviving as a prisoner of war (classified as MIA), planning and implementing an escape…
Printer. His experiences while assigned to an engineer unit between Pearl Harbor and Honolulu during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Owner and operator, Frank Ellis Dealer in Everything, New Hope, Texas. Family background; employment with father, Frank Ellis, in general store; description of New Hope, 1920s; effects of Depression on New Hope businesses; comments on operation of credit business; food market opening; business operations during World War II; sale of business, 1946…
Executive, Dr Pepper Company. His and experiences concerning the development of the Dr Pepper Company. Discovery of the Dr Pepper formula and roles of Charles Cortes Alderton, Wade Morrison, and R. S. Lazenby; transfer of company headquarters from Waco to Dallas, 1922; financial difficulties during 1920s; his employment with Dr Pepper, 1931;…
College professor, musician. His recollections concerning the development of the Electronic Music Center in the North Texas State University School of Music. Early interest in music; sister’s influence; 344th Infantry Band; “Monk” Peters Band; Harvey Anderson Band; University of Oklahoma; Oklahoma City Symphony; WPA Music Project; Lefors, Texas;…
Businessman. His experiences aboard the merchant ships USS Santa Leonara, USS Jose Bonaficio, USS Daniel H. Hill, and the repair ship USS Amphion in the European Theater during World War II. North Atlantic convoys; German submarine and aircraft threats; personal observations of civilian conditions in England, Belgium, and France.
Ellison, David. 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.
His experiences as an Alamo Scout and pathfinder in the Pacific during World War II. Training rigors; 511th Parachute Infantry in New Guinea, 1944; temporary capture by Japanese troops; operations on Nemfer Island; landing at Nasugbu, Philippines, 1944; operations on Luzon.
Businessman. Recollections about prohibition in Cooke County, Texas. Bootlegging; repeal of Prohibition; obtaining the Schlitz franchise; development of his beer distributorship.
His experiences while aboard the battleship USS West Virginia during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; also his comments about the death of his brother, Boyd England, who was killed on the West Virginia during the attack.
Her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1956-90. Youth in East Texas; farm life; education in segregated schools; marriage and move to Dallas; employment as a domestic; African-American housing in Dallas; decision to buy in Hamilton Park; home improvements; church activities; Hamilton Park School; desegregation of Hamilton Park…
Attorney. His experiences concerning the development of the Kaiser Permanente Health Care Program, 1959-95. Joint venture between Kaiser Permanente and Prudential Insurance Company, 1979; difficulties in establishing HMOs in Texas.
Her experiences with the Women's Studies Program and women's issues at the University of North Texas, 1992-1996. Exposure to women's issues as an undergraduate at West Texas A & M University; intertwining of her feminism and vegetarian beliefs; decision to enter the Women's Studies Program at the University of North Texas; influence of Dr.…
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Vernon, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 2874 in Perryton, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.
