OH 1629 | Oral History

OH 1629

WRIGHT, Cora Green (b. 1943)

Notable: African-American alumna of North Texas State University
African American alumna of North Texas State University. Childhood and early education in High, Texas; cotton farming; education at all-black, one-room Prairie Point School and Roxton High School; race relations in Northeast Texas; decision to enter Paris Junior College under National Defense Student Loan program; decision to enter NTSU in Fall 1962; brother Charles Green's experience at NTSU; living conditions in "Shacktown" area of Denton; experiences in NTSU Baptist Student Union; marriage to NTSU student Roy Green; career with Dallas ISD and Federal National Mortgage Association, and Oak Cliff Savings and Loan, as a Realtor, and as her husband's co-worker in insurance business.

About this Oral History

Physical Description 35 pp.
Terms of Use Open
Interviewer(s) Jami Mari Clayman
Date of Interview March 29, 2006

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