His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in East Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Flagstaff, Arizona; move to Kingman, Arizona; description of camps; life in camps.
Former football coach at North Texas State University. His experiences as head football coach during the desegregation of athletics at North Texas State College, 1956.
Farmer, oilman, former state legislator. His personal experiences as a member of the House and Senate of Texas for thirty-four years, 1930-64. Delegate to Democratic National Convention in Houston, 1928; comments about Governors W. Lee O’Daniel, Coke Stevenson, and Allan Shivers; oil legislation.
Librarian. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Coping with segregation in Denton; street paving in the African-American section of Denton; desegregation of North Texas State College; her college experiences; tutoring program; decision to join the Fellowship;…
MOHAIR, Billie: For the Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship Oral History Project. Childhood; civil rights victories; experiences of racism and segregation; Civil Rights Movement; family background; educational and professional background; Denton Women’s Interracial Fellowship; Quakertown; continued community involvement; activism;…
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Iranian-born immigrant now living in Plano, Texas. Childhood in Tehran, Iran; soccer career playing for the Iranian National Team and various club teams; reasons for immigrating to Dallas in 1977; reaction to Islamic Revolution; obtaining citizenship through marriage; years spent living in San…
Holocaust survivor. Her experiences in Hungary and in various extermination camps during the Holocaust. Pre-World War II anti-Semitism; childhood and education; family religious life; forced labor battalions; confiscation of Jewish property; creation of Szeged Ghetto, 1944; everyday ghetto life; deportation to Auschwitz, September, 1944;…
Alumna of North Texas State University. Experiences growing up with racial segregation in Ennis, Texas; graduation from high school in 1956; initial decision to attend Prairie View A&M and subsequent decision to transfer to North Texas in 1958; experiences on campus at North Texas and rooming in the “Shack Town” neighborhood of Denton; 1961…
For the Dallas LGBTQ Oral History Project. Remembering going to school at Texas A&M and experiencing his “sexual awaking”. Introduction to the Gay bar scene and gay community in Dallas. Recounting the AIDS epidemic in Dallas and the Dallas buyers’ club.
Musician. His experiences as a member of the “Light Crust Doughboys” western swing band, 1935-1945. Early musical career as a banjo player in a traveling tent show; employment with the “Wanderers”; employment with the “Light Crust Doughboys”; comments about W. Lee (“Pappy”) O'Daniel; work with Gene Autry and Republic Pictures; acquiring the…
His experiences in the Southwest Pacific Theater during World War II. His youth during the Great Depression; his father’s leather shop in Kilgore, Texas, during the oil boom of the 1930s; influence of German leather carver Solon Aaron on his life; his education; his decision to join the Texas National Guard, November 18, 1940; his work in the…
For the Crisis at Mansfield Online Archive. Mansfield High School integrator; pastor. Childhood in Fort Worth, Texas; experiences integrating Mansfield High School; resistance to integration; life during segregation; Mansfield in the 1950s; racism; theological training and ministry.
Reminiscences of her husband’s political career; Al Smith campaign of 1928; Stevenson-Johnson senatorial race of 1948; excerpts from her Mansion Diary.
Survivor of the Bataan Death March. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Bataan and capture; Bataan Death March; Camp O'Donnell, 1942; Cabanatuan, 1942; Clark Field, Manila, 1942; Bilibid Prison, Manila, 1942-44; hell ship to Japan, 1944; Nagoya, Honshu, 1944-45; American air raids; liberation; his role…
UNT alumna and attorney Joy Moonan discusses her advocacy, philanthropy and immigration experiences. Throughout her career, Joy has worked with the Dallas Volunteer Attorney Program, the Disability Rights Texas agency and other volunteer-attorney initiatives across the state to provide pro bono legal services to low-income clients and those…
Retired farmer. Observations on land speculation, settlement, and development of the Coastal Bend area of South Texas, 1910-30. Agrarian social life; Mexican-Anglo relations; economy of the area; mule raising.
Their reminiscences about the history of the African-American sections of Denton, Texas, 1910-85, and remembrances about their father, Frederick Douglass Moore, a renowned African-American educator in Denton, 1915-50. The original African- American section, “Quakertown,” and its origins; their early family history; Fred Moore's barbershop;…
Retired schoolteacher. Her observations on the settlement and development of the Coastal Bend area of South Texas, 1900-20. Experiences as one of the first female students at Texas A & M University; experiences as a rural schoolteacher; rural social life; President William Howard Taft’s visit to La Quinta Ranch.
For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Longtime publisher of the Dallas Voice and activist. Childhood in Hurst, Texas; college at Texas Tech; gay community in Lubbock, Texas, in the 1970s; various jobs around Dallas; Dallas Gay News; history of the Dallas Voice; Dallas gay community during the 1980s and lack of resources and acceptance;…
Moore, Stephanie. 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 with Headquarters Battery, 24th Infantry Division, Artillery, at Schofield Barracks during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Izzy Mora recounts his personal history through food. He begins by describing his childhood in the lower valley of El Paso, Texas where his father grew a garden and cooked. Izzy describes him as a gourmand. He then reflects on how perceptions of eating and body image impact each other.
His experiences while aboard the destroyer USS Worden during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941; his subsequent experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. His decision to enlist in the Navy, 1937; boot camp, San Diego, California, 1937; assignment to the Worden, 1937; stationing of the Worden at Pearl Harbor,…
