Her comments about the history of Denton County, Texas, 1900-1987. Early history of her descendents, the Sullivan family, 1856-1900; cattle raising and marketing; comments about the oil industry.
Community activist. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Decision to join the Fellowship; conditions in the African-American section of Denton; early Fellowship meetings; desegregation of public facilities; street paving in the African-American section of…
Attorney. His experiences in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Pre-war education, particularly at Culver Military Academy; his decision to enter the Aviation Cadet Program, 1943; basic training, Sheppard Field, Wichita Falls, Texas, 1943; assignment to the 67th College Training Detachment, Ouachita Baptist College, Arkadelphia, Arkansas,…
Auto mechanic His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Oklahoma and Alvarado, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 3804 at Camp SP-53-T near Cleburne, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.
Banker, attorney. His experiences as an employee of the Dallas regional office of the Home Owners Loan Corporation during the New Deal. Mortgage buying; loan amortization; insurance; home improvements; accounting procedures; politics and patronage; taxes and appraising; foreclosures; loan servicing.
Educator. Her recollections concerning her association with Drs. Margaret Griffin and Rose Spicola, long-time professors of reading at Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas. Their rapport with students; their role in the establishment of the Reading Recovery Program; their contributions to reading instruction.
African-American alumnus of North Texas State College. Memories of childhood and early adulthood in Crockett and Big Spring, Texas; dislike of farm work, which made him determined to gain an education; experience in all-black schools; service in Korean War-era U.S. Army, including experiences with racial segregation; use of G.I. Bill to attend…
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.
For the Arms Along the Border Oral History Project. Career as an educator and in the ministry of the Roman Catholic Church; duties as canon missioner in the Big Bend region of Texas; experiences with U.S. Border Patrol and U.S. Marines, and National Guard troops stationed at border; shooting of Esequiel Hernandez, Jr.; perceptions of U.S. Border…
His experiences in the China-Burma-India Theater during World War II. Training at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, as a radio operator/mechanic, 1943-44; radar fundamentals school at Chanute Field, Illinois, 1944; LORAN training at Boca Raton, Florida, 1944-45; assignment to the 13th Squadron at Chittagong, India, 1945; servicing radar and radio…
Farmer. His experiences while aboard the submarine USS Pilotfish in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Submarine School, New London, Connecticut, 1944; assignment to the Pilotfish, 1945; his responsibilities as a torpedoman striker; patrol off Marcus Island; also his observations concerning the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay on September 2…
His experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-fourth Texas Legislature. Comments about Lieutenant Governor Bill Hobby; public school financing; comments about Comptroller Bob Bullock; public utilities legislation; College Coordinating Bill; constitutional revision; personal legislation; comments about Governor Dolph Briscoe.
Homemaker. Her reminiscences about her African-American family in Jackson, Mississippi, and Gary, Indiana. Early youth in Jackson; African-American social and cultural life in Jackson; early experiences with segregation; her family’s emphasis on education; her father’s migration to Gary in search of work, 1945; her permanent move to Gary; family…
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.
Attorney, former Sergeant-at-Arms of the Texas House of Representatives, public speaker, nephew of former Governor Coke Stevenson. His experiences as Sergeant-at-Arms, 1949-53; Stevenson-Johnson senatorial race of 1948; comments about Coke Stevenson.
For the Skylab Oral History Project. NASA flight controller, communications officer, and manager. Childhood in Lufkin, Orange, and Huntington, Tex.; education at Stephen F. Austin State University and Lamar State College of Technology; career as mathematics teacher at Port Neches-Groves High School and in U.S. Air Force; decision to apply for a…
One of the founders of Bomber Bait Company, Gainesville, Texas. Family background; employment by father selling appliances, butane gas systems, and sporting goods in Gainesville, 1934; sale of butane business, 1944; experimentation with fish baits; partnership with Ike Walker in founding Bomber Bait Company; growth and increase in personnel; sales…
Banker. His experiences as an employee of the Dallas regional office of the Home Owners Loan Corporation during the New Deal. Mortgage buying; loan amortization; insurance; home improvements; accounting procedures; politics and patronage; taxes and appraising; foreclosures; loan servicing.
Manager, McClurkan Properties; manager, Industrial Credit Corporation; owner and operator of insurance company, Denton, Texas. Family background; education; credit manager for wholesale grocery; organizing personal (merchant endorsed) loan company, 1938, and its growth, problems, strengths; McClurkan Properties; views on local ownership vs. chain…
Her recollections and experiences as an employee at the Red River Army Depot, Texarkana, Arkansas, during World War II. Hiring procedures; promotion policies; civilian housing; rationing; employee morale; union activity; promotions and sexual harassment.
