Oral History Interview with Fritz Kornegay, March 2003 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Fritz Kornegay, March 2003

Interview with Fritz Kornegay, a signal engineer in the US Army during WWII. He describes his time in the military and coming home post-war.
Date: July 21, 2003
Creator: Childress, D. & Kornegay, Fritz
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Cleveland Advocate (Cleveland, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 57, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 14, 1982 (open access)

The Cleveland Advocate (Cleveland, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 57, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 14, 1982

Semiweekly newspaper from Cleveland, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 14, 1982
Creator: Melvin, Russ
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Cleveland Advocate (Cleveland, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 55, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 7, 1982 (open access)

The Cleveland Advocate (Cleveland, Tex.), Vol. 63, No. 55, Ed. 1 Wednesday, July 7, 1982

Semiweekly newspaper from Cleveland, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: July 7, 1982
Creator: Melvin, Russ
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Alpha Omega (Faye) Jones, July 12, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Alpha Omega (Faye) Jones, July 12, 2016

Ms. Jones was born in Trinity, Texas. Her parents were educators, and she moved a lot as a child following them to different schools. When she graduated from high school in Conroe at Booker T. Washington, she briefly attended TSU. After a time in Michigan, she eventually began a career with the postal service in Houston, where she retired from a management position. In her interview, Ms. Jones describes segregation in Cleveland and Conroe, Texas, her educational career, her experiences in the north as compared to Texas, her career with the postal service and discrimination on the job, the current status of race relations in Conroe and efforts to reinvigorate the alumni association for Booker T. Washington school.
Date: July 12, 2016
Creator: Howard, Jasmin & Jones, Alpha Omega (Faye)
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History