College professor, survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston. His experiences concerning the Japanese treatment of prisoners-of-war while he was a POW during World War II.
Political activist. His involvement in the Mexican-American community of Fort Worth, Texas, 1970-2003. His family’s migration from Mexico to Texas in the 1920s; his youth in Galveston; his decision to quit school in the ninth grade; his earning a GED; business school at Galveston Business College and subsequent employment in the Galveston County…
Fort Worth-based Chicano political activists. Discussion of the Raza Unida Party in Tarrant County and throughout Texas; efforts to improve the economic, social and political aspects of the Chicano community. Carlos Puente’s service on Fort Worth City Council. Roadblocks Mexican-Americans faced in campaigning and running for political office, city…
For the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. West German-born Colombian immigrant to Denton, Texas. Childhood in West Germany; life in Colombia during the 1990s violence; family’s immigration to Texas; expectations of the U.S.; culture shock in the U.S.; transition to American life; attending college as an international student;…
Attorney. Her role in the writing and passage of the Texas Family Code. Family background; her education; Rockefeller Grant to National Institute of Public Affairs; career with National Youth Administration; participation in League of Women Voters during World War II; law school at Southern Methodist University; early law career; activities with…
For the Desegregating DFW Oral History Project. Civil Rights activist and local political figure. Participation with NAACP and SCLC; Juanita Croft; mother’s activism; impact of Civil Rights Act; participation in the South Dallas Information Center; the Black Panther Party; college experience; police brutality and shootings; city political…
Former president of the University of Texas, professor of higher education at the University of Colorado. General coverage of his early career; his problems with the Board of Regents at the University of Texas, 1944-45; his unsuccessful race for governor of Texas in 1946.
Nurse. Her experiences as a Mexican American and information about the history of the Mexican American community of Denton, Texas. Her parent’s efforts to integrate their family into the Anglo community; her youth in Tioga, Texas; the family’s move to Denton, May, 1957; early work experiences after graduation from high school; employment at the…
For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Childhood in Chickasha, Oklahoma, and Fort Worth, Texas; enlistment in U.S. Army at age of fourteen; training at Ft. Leonard Wood, Missouri, and Ft. Benning, Georgia; deployment during Cuban Missile Crisis; discharge from Army and enlistment in U.S. Marine Corps; training at Camp Pendleton…
Landscape architect. His experience as a member of PRISIC in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Educational background including graduation from Kansas State University with a degree in landscape architecture; commissioning as a U.S. Navy ensign, 1941; induction school, Tucson, Arizona, 1941-42; photographic interpretation school, Anacostia…
Artist. His experiences as a combat infantryman in the European Theater during World War II. Educational background; ROTC, John Tarleton Agricultural College, Stephenville, Texas, 1941-42; basic training, Camp Wolters, Mineral Wells, Texas, 1942; assignment to the Army Specialized Training Program, East Texas State Teachers College, Commerce,…
For the Eastland County African American Women Oral History Project. Longtime resident of Eastland, Texas. Memories of childhood in Hawkins, Texas, as member of a sharecropping family; education in all-black schools; 1941 decision to move to Dallas following high school graduation; work there as a domestic and factory worker; 1951 marriage to…
Member of the “Lost Battalion.” His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Java and capture; Bicycle Prison Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Tamarkan, Thailand, 1944; railroad maintenance in Burma, 1944-45; liberation.
For the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. German-born immigrant to Denton, Texas, and adjunct professor of Music at Texas Woman’s University. Childhood and education in Kiel and Hamburg, Germany; family history; parents’ move to South Africa; own move to South Africa; discovery of the cello and decision to study it seriously;…
Indian dancer from Gudalur, in the Nilgiris district of India. Recount of her life centered on dancing from a young age, which lead her to study dance at Kalakshetra, dance scene in different districts. How the access to study dance has changed over time, body image in dance.
Member of the “Lost Battalion.” His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Java and capture; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1944-45; Saigon and Da Lat, French Indo-China, 1945, and American air raids…
Member of the “Lost Battalion.” His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Java and capture; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1944; Saigon and Da Lat, French Indo-China, 1944-45, and American air raids…
For the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Retired statistics professor, former Dallas Gay Alliance board member, and longtime activist in the Dallas LGBT community. Police harassment of the Dallas gay community; Village Station arrests; coming out in the late 1970s; Dallas Gay Alliance; childhood in the United Kingdom; travels in the Middle East…
Businessman, 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, 1942-44; hell ship to Japan, 1944; Shinagawa Prison Camp, Honshu, 1944-45; liberation .
Survivor of the sinking of the USS Houston. His experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Sinking of the Houston,1942; capture and imprisonment in Serang, Java; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma- Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Rat Buri Thailand, 1944-45; liberation.
Political activist, journalist and author. Former staff writer for Texas Monthly, professor in English department at North Carolina State University, contributing publications for Soldier of Fortune and The Wall Street Journal, and author of The Ashes of Waco: an Investigation. Childhood memories and early experiences of his father’s newspaper…
Part Two interview: Political activist, journalist and author. Former staff writer for Texas Monthly, professor in English department at North Carolina State University, contributing publications for Soldier of Fortune and The Wall Street Journal, and author of The Ashes of Waco: an Investigation. Childhood memories and early experiences of his…
Professor emeritus of the UNT Political Science department, native of Czechoslovakia and survivor of the Nazi and Soviet invasions of that country, and political activist. Childhood experiences in Prague, Sobotka, and other Czech towns; parents’ political involvements; family’s experiences in World War II and Soviet invasion; perceptions of…
