Schoolteacher, secretary. Her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1963-79. Education; decision to buy home in Hamilton Park; substitute teaching at Hamilton Park School; church activities; desegregation and closing of Hamilton Park…
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in West Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp in Lubbock, Texas; transfer to Carlsbad, New Mexico; description of camps; life in camps.
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Louisiana and Mississippi; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 5415 at Camp F-5 in New Augusta, Mississippi; description of camp; life in…
Educator. His experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1956-90. Youth in East Texas; military service in World War II; employment with Dallas Independent School District; segregated housing in Dallas; decision to purchase home in Hamilton…
Clergyman, community leader. His experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, during the 1950s and 1960s. Youth and adolescent years in Waco; segregated education; college at Huston-Tillotson, 1952-56; entry to Perkins School of Theology at…
Anesthetist. His experiences as an Army nurse in Vietnam, 1972-73. Decision to enter nurse training, the military; anesthesia school at William Beaumont Medical Center, 1972; attitudes toward Vietnam War; assignment to 95th Evacuation Hospital,…
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Hunt County, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to a camp at Wolfe City, Texas; description of camp; life in camp.
Schoolteacher. Her experiences at the Frederick Douglass Colored School, Denton, Texas, 1949-69. Relationship with students; church activities; comments about Principal Fred Moore.
His experiences as a nurse in Vietnam, 1969-70. Assignment to 24th Evacuation Hospital, Long Binh; treatment of endemic diseases; assignment to emergency room; triaging of patients; living conditions; drug addicts; battle casualties; medical…
His experiences as a naval officer in the Pacific Theater during World War II. New York State Merchant Marine Academy, 1941; assignment to USS Sheridan (APA-51); Tarawa landing, 1943; Marshall Islands landings, 1944; Saipan landing, 1944; assignment…
Schoolteacher. Her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1956-92. Segregated education in East Texas; graduation from Texas College; teaching career in Malakoff, Texas; decision to buy home in Hamilton Park; home improvements;…
Schoolteacher. Her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1959-91. Youth in East Texas; education in segregated schools; decision to move to Hamilton Park; home improvements; church activities; Hamilton Park School; flooding problems;…
Community leader. His experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1962-91. Childhood in East Texas; segregated education; Civic League and its activities; property violations; home improvements; his presidency of the Civic League; zoning…
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in the Midwest and Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 901 at Pine Valley, California; description of camp; camp life.
Her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas, 1959-90. Youth in East Texas; segregated education; decision to buy home in Hamilton Park; home improvements; secretary for Civic League; zoning problems; deed restrictions and violations;…
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in North Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 1814 at Camp G-136-A in Duncan, Arizona; company move to Camp G-173-A in Fredonia,…
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Mixon, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Company 2885 at SCS-19-T in Jacksonville, Texas; transfer to Company 878 at SCS-37-T in…
His experiences as an employee of the Red River Arsenal, Texarkana, Arkansas, and the Lone Star Ordnance Plant, Texarkana, Texas, 1941-43. Union activities; safety procedures; women employees; work schedules.
His experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Childhood in Fort Worth, Texas; joining the CCC; assignment to Lake Worth, Texas; life in camp; description of camp; surveying land.
Her reminiscences about Texarkana, Texas, 1925-50. Her mother’s political and social activities; relationships with African-Americans; early education; business enterprises; social organizations; family life.
His experiences in the Pacific Theater as a combat pilot in the Royal New Zealand Air Force during World War II. Fall of Singapore; Guadalcanal operations; air combat against Japanese Zeros; release from duty, December 1943.
His experiences during internment in the Soviet Union, 1943-44, after the downing of his bomber by Japanese planes. Alaskan operations; internment by the Soviets and his treatment; postwar career in the Air Force.
Her recollections concerning women’s clubs in Texarkana, Texas. Current Topic Club; Sue Sanderson Garden Club; church activities; entertainment; women’s household chores; Civic Music Club.
