North Texas business owner. Remembrances about childhood in Lindsay, St. Joe, and Gainesville, Texas; being drafted into U.S. Air Force; training at various stateside bases and overseas service in China-Burma-India and Pacific theaters as top-gunner…

Remembrances of childhood in Des Moines, Iowa, Peoria, Illinois, San Antonio, Texas, and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; decision to enroll at University of Oklahoma; being drafted in 1945; training in Army Corps of Engineers; service in postwar occupation…

Longtime resident of Denton County, Texas, and former North Texas State Teachers College student. Memories of life on the Christal Ranch and other Denton Co. farms, including descriptions of ranch work, wheat harvest, and entertainment options in…

Former member of the Texas House of Representatives (D-Austin). Memories of childhood and education in all-black schools of Chicago, Illinois; family involvement in Chicago politics; education at Fisk University; marriage to Exalton A. Delco, Jr.,…

For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. Memories of childhood and education in Shreveport, Louisiana; drafting into U.S. Army and assignment to an air base security battalion; overseas service in Pacific theater; enrollment at…

For the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. World War II veteran and flight instructor to the Tuskegee Airmen. Childhood and early education in Fort Worth, Texas; early love of flying; decision to attend Tuskegee Institute and 1940…

For the North Texas Immigrant Rights Movement Oral History Project. Fort Worth city councilman. Childhood in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and Fort Worth; family’s immigration narrative; education in Fort Worth public schools, Texas Christian University…

For the North Texas Immigrant Rights Movement Oral History Project. Pastor of Fort Worth’s All Saints Catholic Church. Childhood in Waco, Texas; education in Waco schools, at Saint Francis University and institutions in Spain and Italy; career in…

Veteran of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Childhood in Whitney and Amarillo, Texas; family’s difficulties in Great Depression; decision to enroll in the CCC; experiences at CCC camps in Cleburne and Hillsboro, Texas, and Grand Junction, Colorado;…

Civilian Conservation Corps veteran. Childhood in western Pennsylvania; father’s work as a farmer, coal miner, and WPA blacksmith; life on farms and in mining towns during the Great Depression; decision to enroll in CCC before eighteenth birthday;…

Veteran of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Childhood in rural northern Alabama; farm life during the Great Depression; decision to enter CCC at the age of fifteen; experiences at CCC camps at Roosevelt State Park in Mississippi, Florence, Oregon,…

Non-profit administrator and educator; South Carolina-born African American resident of Fort Worth, Texas. Childhood on South Carolina State College campus in Orangeburg, South Carolina; life under Jim Crow laws; working at Border Mission; move to…

Former Black Panther and long-time civil rights advocate. Family history; childhood in Fort Worth; life during segregation; process of integration; Civil Rights Act; changes in urban demographics; generation differences in living under segregation;…

Retired Associate Dean of Libraries at the University of North Texas. Childhood in east Texas; education and work history; move to librarianship; changes at UNT over the years; work at UNT Libraries; move to digital libraries; creation of UNT’s…

Flight instructor at Tuskegee Army Airfield. Childhood in Macon, Georgia; Army Air Corps flight training; selection as a flight instructor; assignment to Tuskegee Army Airfield; segregation at Tuskegee; reaction of white community to black pilots;…

Journalist. Childhood in Oklahoma; family history; journalism training and career; Cold War military service in Germany; work for Dallas Times Herald; coverage of John F. Kennedy’s 1963 Texas visit and assassination; coverage of Jack Ruby’s trial;…

Former member of the Tarrant County Commissioners Court. Memories of childhood and education in Markham, Illinois; marriage to Jim Bagsby; participation in the Arkansas civil rights movement; move to Fort Worth, Texas; career as an educator in the…

UNT alumnus and former faculty member, Denton pastor, and retirement center administrator. Childhood, education, and perceptions of race relations in Florida and Texas; education at UNT, Southern Baptist College, and Southwestern Baptist Theological…

Dallas-based business leader and philanthropist. Grandparents’ experiences in present-day Belarus and Prussia and as immigrants to the U.S. and eventually to Fort Worth; parents’ experiences growing up in Fort Worth. Education in Fort Worth public…

Experiences as a North Texas student (BA, Aquatic Biology, 1964; MA Aquatic Biology/Microbiology, 1966), including involvement in Denton’s civil rights movement, experiences as a PhD student at UNC (Applied Aquatic Microbial Ecology, 1971) and…