Mansfield High School | Oral History

Mansfield High School

OH 1872

For the Crisis at Mansfield Online Archive. Longtime white resident of Mansfield, Texas, member of the Texas Rodeo Cowboy Hall of Fame. Family history; town history; memories of race relations in Mansfield; eyewitness at Mansfield Crisis; concern that federal government attempted to “cram” integration down Mansfield’s throat; brother’s role in removing effigy from flagpole.

OH 1871

For the Crisis at Mansfield Online Archive. Longtime African American resident of Mansfield, Texas. Family history; childhood memories of Mansfield; segregation in social life and in public education; memories of teachers in Mansfield’s black school; attendance at I.M. Terrell; memories of Mansfield Crisis; NAACP activity in Mansfield; career with Bell Helicopter; perceptions of race relations in Mansfield.

OH 1870

For the Crisis at Mansfield Online Archive. Longtime African American resident of Mansfield, Texas. Childhood memories of Mansfield; segregation in social life and in public education; attendance at I.M. Terrell; desegregating Mansfield High; memories of Mansfield Crisis; education at UT-Arlington; career in Mansfield ISD; organizing Juneteenth celebration in Mansfield.

OH 1869

For the Crisis at Mansfield Online Archive. Longtime African American resident of Mansfield, Texas. Childhood memories of Mansfield; segregation in social life and in public education; NAACP activity in Mansfield; membership in Bethlehem Baptist Church; changes seen in Mansfield since end of Jim Crow.

OH 1867

For the Crisis at Mansfield Online Archive. Mansfield High School integrator; pastor. Childhood in Fort Worth, Texas; experiences integrating Mansfield High School; resistance to integration; life during segregation; Mansfield in the 1950s; racism; theological training and ministry.