Kimble, Betty. The Bolivar Oral History Project. Through her paternal line, Kimble is the great granddaughter of blacksmith and freedman Thomas Cook Sr. and his wife, Lethia Perry. Cook’s blacksmith shop was the focus of an archeological excavation in 2021 (Bolivar Archeological Project). In this second interview with the Bolivar Oral History…
Homemaker, community activist. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Early educational experiences in East Texas; Tennyson Miller and Abner Haynes, their impact on the desegregation of North Texas State College; her personal experiences as a student at North…
For the Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship Oral History Project. Childhood; family background; educational and professional background; Denton’s American Legion Senior Center; Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship; Denton desegregation; experiences with discrimination and segregation; continued discrimination after integration; contemporary…
For the UNT African American Remembrance Oral History Project. Long-time Denton resident. Childhood in Denton; involvement in various activities, including the Senior Center and church; history of Quakertown; Denton during segregation; the Denton Square; fading communal memory of Quakertown; changes in Denton since integration; changes in the…
Kimble, Timothy. The Bolivar Oral History Project. Through his paternal line, Kimble is the great great grandson of blacksmith and freedman Thomas Cook Sr. and his wife, Lethia Perry. Cook’s blacksmith shop was the focus of an archeological excavation in 2021 (Bolivar Archeological Project). In this interview with the Bolivar Oral History…
Schoolteacher. Her experiences as a student at the Frederick Douglass Colored School in Denton, Texas, 1928-40. Family background; segregated education; comments about classmates and teachers; school activities; sports; discipline; courses and classes; summer jobs; comments about desegregation and closing of Fred Moore School.
Survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Sinking of Houston, 1942; capture and imprisonment at Serang, Java; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi and Tamarkan, Thailand, 1944-45…
Educator, university administrator. His experiences as a student at Frederick Douglass Colored School, Denton, Texas, during the 1920s and 1930s. Youth in East Texas; segregation in Denton; comments about Professor Fred Moore; school facilities; athletics; comments about his teachers; influence of coach Tennyson Miller; “Three M’s” singing group;…
His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His youth in segregated East Texas; his move to Denton, Texas, in 1933 and his education at Frederick Douglass school; enrollment at Texas College, 1939, on a football scholarship; induction into the Army, July, 1942; basic training at Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 1942; life in…
Public school administrator. His experiences as one of the two African Americans who first integrated athletics at North Texas State College, 1956; comments about Abner Haynes.
Musician. His experiences while attending the Texas International Pop Festival, Lewisville, Texas, August 30-September 1, 1969. His adoption of the hippie counterculture while in high school in Corsicana, Texas; his description about various aspects of the Pop Festival; drug use at the Pop Festival; his description of the bands performing at the…
Memories of growing up in Denton. His lifelong involvement with the Rotary club from watching his dad as president to his own experiences as the president of the Rotary club in Bonham. Recollections of Denton historical events such as the desegregation of public schools.
His experiences in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. His decision to join the Texas National Guard, 1936; the federalization of the National Guard, November 18, 1940; training at Fort Bliss, El Paso, Texas, 1940-41; additional training at Fort Clark, Brackettville, Texas, 1941; Louisiana Maneuvers, summer, 1941; breaking in…
Executive. Educational background; early career with Texaco in Jamaica; transfer to Caltex; marketing assistant, India, 1937; marketing Caltex products in India; lifestyles for Caltex employees in India; World War II and Indian market; assignment to Petroleum Ordnance Committee, 1941-43; return to India as Bombay district manager, 1943; partition…
For the Skylab Oral History Project. NASA engineer and manager. Childhood in San Antonio and Orange, Texas; education at Lamar State College of Technology; decision to join NASA; work on engine development program, Apollo propulsion systems and duties in mission control; duties in Skylab and Space Shuttle programs; turf battles among Johnson Space…
African-American alumnus of North Texas State University. Memories of childhood in Stop Six neighborhood in Fort Worth, Texas; experience of attending all-black public schools throughout most of 1960s; perception that African Americans “lost out” in desegregation of schools in Fort Worth; importance of education as a family value; decision to…
Mildred Kitchens recounts her childhood growing up in the small timber mill town of Diboll, Texas during the early twentieth century. She discusses working her way through the Texas State College for Women (now Texas Women’s University) in the late 1930s. After graduating from TSCW, Kitchens took a job working for the National Youth Administration…
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. U.S. Navy anti-submarine warfare veteran of World War II. Childhood and family history in Sulphur Springs, Texas, college at the University of Texas during the Depression, and musical background. Enlistment in the U.S. Navy shortly after the attack at Pearl Harbor, midshipman school in New…
Petroleum engineer, geophysicist. His career in the oil exploration business; his service aboard the destroyer USS Benham in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His family’s shipbuilding business in Norway; his parents’ emigration to the United States; his experiences working aboard tankers; college at Louisiana State University, 1934-38; his…
Kleiman, Karen: For the Postpartum Depression and Maternal Mental Health Oral History Project. Karen Kleiman is a clinical social worker and maternal mental health therapist. She founded the Postpartum Stress Center in Pennsylvania in 1988. Kleiman has written and co-written several books on motherhood, postpartum health, and therapy. These…
His experiences as a photographic laboratory technician in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Technical training at Lowry Field, Denver, Colorado, 1942; Air Force Photo-Intelligence School, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, 1943; voluntary duty with the Flying Tigers, Kunming, China, 1943; flying "The Hump"; assignment to 14th Air Force…
