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Tagged with "City of Denton (TX) History"

  • College professor, former college administrator, former poet laureate of Texas. The making of the poet; analysis of his poetry; tenure as director of libraries and vice-president for academic affairs at North Texas State College; his philosophy of…
  • His experiences as a former Denton County, Texas, whiskey maker.
  • College professor, community activist. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Early organization and social activities; early experiences with discrimination;…
  • Public employee; community activist. Her experiences concerning the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Early organization and social activities; experiences in a segregated environment; street paving of…
  • Homemaker, schoolteacher, community activist. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Childhood in Nacogdoches, Texas; desegregation of North Texas State College…
  • Schoolteacher, community activist. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Early experiences with segregation; segregation in Denton; decision to join the…
  • Schoolteacher, community activist. Her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Early relationships with African-Americans in rural Georgia; decision to join the…
  • A follow-up to her earlier recollections concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women’s Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s.
  • His experiences as a student at the Frederick Douglass Colored School, Denton, Texas, 1926-32.
  • Schoolteacher. Her experiences at the Frederick Douglass Colored School, Denton, Texas, 1949-69. Relationship with students; church activities; comments about Principal Fred Moore.
  • His reminiscences about his youth while residing in Denton, Texas, 1902-71; Boy Scouts activities, 1917-1930; other playtime activities; early descriptions of Texas Woman's University; family's emigration from Scotland, 1890; physical description of…
  • His experiences producing whiskey during Prohibition in Denton County, Texas.
  • Farmer-rancher. His reminiscences about life in Denton, Texas, 1910-30; business activities around the city square and county courthouse; city streetcar service; identification of old Oak Street residences; Cascade Plunge swimming pool; forced…
  • For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. Farmer. His description of buildings and families during a driving tour of Denton County, Texas.
  • For the Ray Roberts Lake Oral History Project. Homemaker. Her reminiscences about rural life in northern Denton County and southern Cooke County, Texas, 1910-1987; her ancestors’ role in the founding of Valley View, Texas; evolution of the family…
  • For the Denton County Historical Commission. Aircraft worker. His experiences as a longtime resident of Denton County, Texas, 1926-2002.
  • For the Denton County Historical Commission. Longtime Denton residents. Frank’s childhood in Jasper County, Tex., and family’s move to Denton; career; education at North Texas State College and Louisiana State University; career as radio announcer…
  • For the Quakertown Oral History Project. Denton resident and UNT employee with personal interest in the history of Denton’s historic all-black Quakertown neighborhood. Career at UNT as Associate Vice President for Equity and Diversity; service to…
  • For the Quakertown Oral History Project. Local news media personality and third-generation descendant of residents of Denton’s historic all-black Quakertown neighborhood. Childhood in Denton; education in Denton public schools and at UNT; career in…
  • For the Quakertown Oral History Project. Son of residents of Denton’s historic all-black Quakertown neighborhood and long-time Denton resident. Early childhood and education in Denton, including experiences with racial segregation and experiences…
  • For the Quakertown Oral History Project. Resident of southeast Denton. Experiences while attending segregated schools in Denton, including memories of educator Fred Moore; folklore of Quakertown neighborhood and reasons for its disintegration;…
  • For the Denton County Historical Commission. Longtime Denton County resident. Family history; farming life, religious practice, and education in the public schools of Argyle, Texas; marriage to Carson Sullivan and 1929 move to city of Denton; work…
  • For the Denton County Historical Commission. Native resident of Denton, Texas. Family history; relation to the first elected official in Dallas, Texas; Denton’s First State Bank; childhood and schooling in Denton; family during the Great Depression…
  • Industrial executive, Moore Business Forms, Denton, Texas. Education, early work background; planning manager of Moore Business Forms, Dallas; location and building of manufacturing facilities in Denton, 1945; public relations, communications,…
  • Realtor, farmer. Family background, including founding of Brooks Dairy by his father; his early experiences on the farm and in Brooks Dairy; personal managerial experiences in dairy business; obtaining milk accounts with Denton public schools,…