For the UNT Multicultural Center Oral History Project. Former UNT Vice President for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access. Career as a university administrator. Perspectives on student success and support initiatives at UNT.
For the UNT Multicultural Center Oral History Project. Former UNT Vice President for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity and Access. Career as a university administrator. Perspectives on student success and support initiatives at UNT.
For the UNT Multicultural Center Oral History Project. Former director of the UNT Multicultural Center. Career as a university administrator. Perspectives on student success and support initiatives at UNT.
For the UNT Multicultural Center Oral History Project. Former director of the UNT Multicultural Center. Career as a university administrator. Perspectives on student success and support initiatives at UNT.
Pastor at Valley View Missionary Baptist Church, Abilene, Texas. Former NAACP Chapter president. Founder of Interested Citizen of Abilene North (ICAN). Director of Curtis House Cultural Center. Childhood in Abilene; education at Carter G. Woodson…
For the Origins of Juneteenth Oral History Project. Member of National Juneteenth Observance Foundation for 18 years, mentored by founder, Rev. Ronald V. Myers, Sr. M.D. Currently Vice Chair. National…
For the Denton County Historical Commission. Ancestry of the Williams family, Denton County history.
Kimble, Betty. The Bolivar Oral History Project. Through her paternal line, Kimble is the great granddaughter of blacksmith and freedman Thomas Cook Sr. and his wife, Lethia Perry. Cook’s blacksmith shop was the focus of an archeological…
For the Women Veterans Oral History Project. WASP pilot and World War II veteran.
For the South Asians in North Texas Oral History Project. Past president of the Hindu Temple Society of North Texas and Indian immigrant in the United States. Experiences with racism and discrimination during the Civil Rights Era in the…
For the DFW Immigration Oral History Project. Experiences of Habashy, an immigrant from Egypt who currently lives in Allen, Texas. We discuss her childhood living in a small village, her career in education in Egypt and in the U.S., along with…
For the South Asians in North Texas Project. Pioneer of Indian classical dance in DFW and co-founder of the Indian Cultural Heritage Foundation. Immigration experience from India to the DFW region. Founding of the Arathi School of Dance as the…
Archeologist, United States Department of Transportation Cultural Resources Division, Office of Environmental Program Management. Background and interest in becoming an archeologist. Work for the USDOT and experiences on excavations nationally…
DFW-area baker and small business owner. History of the Bread Diary Company; relationship with food and how it interacts with her heritage, her experiences within farmers markets; interactions with customers and other…
Information Science professor and refugee from Bosnia to the U.S. Family’s experiences as refugees from the Bosnian War to the United States as she fled from her birthplace of Bosnia to Croatia, and then eventually to the U.S.; memories of her…
UNT alumnus and Music Director of the Grand Ole Opry. Discussion of the tic tac bass style, including its foundations with Ray Price’s band, guitarist Harold Bradley’s innovations in the early 1960s, the differences between tic tac bass and…
In this oral history interview, retired educator Mary Ann Finley recounts her decades-long career teaching in public and private schools across Texas from the early 1970s to her retirement in 1992. Motivated by a desire to help her children avoid…
Discussion with Sydney Reece regarding her experience in the mental health industry. The conversation includes her journey into the field, the impacts of a global pandemic on the practice, and the lasting effects of that event on the industry and…