For the Desegregating DFW Oral History Project. Attorney and Civil Rights advocate. Childhood in Arkansas; life during segregation; high school in Little Rock’s Dunbar High School; involvement in University of Arkansas’s integration; politics in Arkansas surrounding the Central High School integration; law practice in Arkansas and Dallas-Fort Worth; Dallas-Fort Worth Civil Rights activity and legal cases.

Childhood in the Congo and Texas; family history; living on the Alabama-Coushatta reservation near Livingston, Texas; enlistment in the Navy; assignment on USS Thurston; attending the V-12 program; assignment on the USS Long Island in the Pacific Theater; post-war college and teaching; recall by Navy during the Korean War; assignment to USS Adirondack and Naples, Italy; post-war life.

For the Desegregating DFW Oral History Project. Lifetime Tolar, Texas resident. Childhood in Tolar; rural life; memories of segregation; race relations in Tolar; visits to Fort Worth; work experience; electrifying rural Texas; integration of little league sports; post-World War II changes to rural Texas; John F. Kennedy assassination; desegregation in Tolar.