Texas State Library and Archives Commission Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2017-2021 (open access)

Texas State Library and Archives Commission Strategic Plan: Fiscal Years 2017-2021

Agency strategic plan for the Texas State Library & Archives Commission describing the organization's planned services, activities, and other goals during fiscal years 2017 through 2021.
Date: June 24, 2016
Creator: Texas State Library and Archives Commission
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

Benchmarks Online

Website for the official newsletter of the University of North Texas University Information Technology department. It contains various news stories related to technology and to campus programs, with an archive of previous Benchmarks newsletters.
Date: June 2016
Creator: University of North Texas. University Information Technology.
Object Type: Website
System: The UNT Digital Library
Nuestra Voz (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 31, Ed. 1, June 2016 (open access)

Nuestra Voz (Fort Worth, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 31, Ed. 1, June 2016

Monthly newspaper providing news and information to the Tarrant, Dallas, and Denton County Latino communities along with advertising.
Date: June 2016
Creator: Alvarado, Felix
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Events Calendar, Summer 2016 (open access)

Texas Events Calendar, Summer 2016

Quarterly magazine listing upcoming events occurring within different regions of Texas such as concerts, stand up comedy, art shows, and market days.
Date: June 2016
Creator: Texas. Travel and Information Division.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Daniel Urbina Sanchez, June 28, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Daniel Urbina Sanchez, June 28, 2016

Daniel Urbina Sanchez grew up between Lubbock, Texas and Garden City, Kansas. Starting in 1968, Sanchez’s family moved permanently to Lubbock. He graduated from Lubbock High School and Texas Tech University. In the 2000, Sanchez began participating in such organizations as Las Fiestas Del Llano, which is an organization focused on celebrating Mexican national holidays. He is currently an oral historian for Texas Tech University’s Southwest Collection. At Texas Tech University, Sanchez became a leader of the Latino faculty and staff. Sanchez also founded Citizens United in Discourse Against Discrimination, CUIDAD, which led rallies within Lubbock and participated in protests in the Texas State Capitol as the legislature considered racists-anti immigration bills.
Date: June 28, 2016
Creator: Zapata, Joel & Sanchez, Daniel Urbina
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Gilbert Flores, June 20, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Gilbert Flores, June 20, 2016

Gilbert A. Flores grew up in Slaton, Texas where he attended a segregated “Mexican School” and then a integrated school where he faced abuse and discrimination alongside other Mexican American children. Upon graduating from high school, he moved to Lubbock and began to work in various jobs until he opened up his own successful auto-parts store during the early 1970s. In 1993 he became the second Mexican American to be elected into the Lubbock County Commissioner’s Court.
Date: June 20, 2016
Creator: Flores, Gilbert & Zapata, Joel
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Hood Sentinel (Fort Hood, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 23, 2016 (open access)

Fort Hood Sentinel (Fort Hood, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 24, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 23, 2016

Weekly newspaper published for the military and civilian personnel of Fort Hood, that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 23, 2016
Creator: Pruden, Todd
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Register, Volume 41, Number 26, Pages 4529-4722, June 24, 2016 (open access)

Texas Register, Volume 41, Number 26, Pages 4529-4722, June 24, 2016

A weekly publication, the Texas Register serves as the journal of state agency rulemaking for Texas. Information published in the Texas Register includes proposed, adopted, withdrawn and emergency rule actions, notices of state agency review of agency rules, governor's appointments, attorney general opinions, and miscellaneous documents such as requests for proposals. After adoption, these rulemaking actions are codified into the Texas Administrative Code.
Date: June 24, 2016
Creator: Texas. Secretary of State.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Jon Holmes, June 13, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Jon Holmes, June 13, 2016

Jon Holmes was born in Lubbock and grew up in a farm near the city while being educated in Lubbock’s school system. He graduated from Lubbock High School and later attended Texas Tech University. At Texas Tech, Holmes participated in the campus anti-Vietnam War Movement and in the underground student newspaper named The Catalyst. Because of his work, especially in pointing out racial discrimination in Lubbock within the The Catalyst, Holmes and his fellow student advocates faced police harassment and violence. Facing such oppression, he moved to New York where he began a successful writing career. He has published articles in numerous publications like the New York Times and has published two cultural history books.
Date: June 13, 2016
Creator: Wisely, Karen & Holmes, Jon
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas Jewish Post (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 23, 2016 (open access)

Texas Jewish Post (Dallas, Tex.), Vol. 70, No. 25, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 23, 2016

Weekly Jewish newspaper from Dallas, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date: June 23, 2016
Creator: Wisch-Ray, Sharon
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sanger News (Sanger, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 23, 2016 (open access)

Sanger News (Sanger, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 40, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 23, 2016

Weekly newspaper from Sanger, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 23, 2016
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Training Session Materials for TxDOT Project 0-6603: Long Term Performance of Drilled Shaft Retaining Walls (open access)

Training Session Materials for TxDOT Project 0-6603: Long Term Performance of Drilled Shaft Retaining Walls

Report providing the slides from a training workshop on a proposed design approach for long term loading for drilled shaft walls in expansive clays which took place on August 29, 2013 at the University of Texas at Austin.
Date: December 2013
Creator: Gilbert, Robert
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Gregg Barrios, June 21, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Gregg Barrios, June 21, 2016

Mr. Barrios was born and raised in Victoria, Texas. He started working for the local newspaper at the age of 16, writing book reviews. He was drafted into the military, trained as a medic and stationed in Austin, where he attended UT. He later became politicized and joined SDS, involved in anti-war activism. After graduating from college, he taught high school level English in San Antonio and later moved to Crystal City to support the 1969 walkout, eventually staying as a teacher. He wrote several plays that touched upon to Chicano/a identity and politics. Throughout the interview, Mr. Barrios discussed sexism in the Chicano movement, and the exclusion of LGBT Chicanos/as.
Date: June 21, 2016
Creator: Barrios, Gregg & Sinta, Vinicio
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Mario Salas, June 23, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Mario Salas, June 23, 2016

This is a wide-ranging interview by Mario Salas from his time as a child to his aspirations in the political arena
Date: June 23, 2016
Creator: Arionus, Steve & Salas, Mario
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Leonard Graphic (Leonard, Tex.), Vol. 126, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 30, 2016 (open access)

The Leonard Graphic (Leonard, Tex.), Vol. 126, No. 26, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 30, 2016

Weekly newspaper from Leonard, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 30, 2016
Creator: Blevins, Betsy
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Elgin Courier (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 126, No. 27, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 22, 2016 (open access)

Elgin Courier (Elgin, Tex.), Vol. 126, No. 27, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 22, 2016

Weekly newspaper from Elgin, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 22, 2016
Creator: Lucio, Rachel
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Fort Hood Sentinel (Fort Hood, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 2016 (open access)

Fort Hood Sentinel (Fort Hood, Tex.), Vol. 74, No. 23, Ed. 1 Thursday, June 16, 2016

Weekly newspaper published for the military and civilian personnel of Fort Hood, that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 16, 2016
Creator: Pruden, Todd
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Gethrel Williams, June 29, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Gethrel Williams, June 29, 2016

Gethrel Williams was from Beaumont, Texas. She was a long time civil rights and labor activist. During her time working for the U.S. Postal Service, she became a leader in in the American Postal Workers Union, both locally and nationally. In 2007, she was elected to the Beaumont City Council as Council-member-at-Large. In her interview, she discussed her efforts to desegregate public accommodations, her participation in the labor movement, and her work as a public, elected official. She died February 18, 2018.
Date: June 29, 2016
Creator: Bobadilla, Eladio & Williams, Gethrel
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Frank, Gutierrez, June 18, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Frank, Gutierrez, June 18, 2016

Frank Gutierrez grew up in Lubbock, Texas and graduated from Lubbock High School. He then joined the military and served in Vietnam. Upon returning, he enrolled in Texas Tech University. He has served in various non-profits and a charter school. He has ran for various local political offices.
Date: June 18, 2016
Creator: Gutierrez, Frank; Wisely, Karen & Zapata, Joel
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Sanger News (Sanger, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, June 3, 2016 (open access)

Sanger News (Sanger, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 37, Ed. 1 Friday, June 3, 2016

Weekly newspaper from Sanger, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 3, 2016
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Billie Caviel, June 30, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Billie Caviel, June 30, 2016

Billie Caviel was raised in East Texas, attending all African American Schools. She attended university and pharmacy school at Texas Southern University in Houston. Once graduating, Caviel and her husband, who was also a pharmacist, moved to Lubbock, Texas to work for a Jewish pharmacist because no one else would give them jobs in the state because they were African American. Caviel and her husband later founded their own pharmacy, which they kept open for forty-nine years. Caviel also served as a Lubbock ISD school board member for a number of years during the early 1990s.
Date: June 30, 2016
Creator: Caviel, Billie & Wisely, Karen
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Henderson Daily News (Henderson, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 63, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 1, 2016 (open access)

Henderson Daily News (Henderson, Tex.), Vol. 87, No. 63, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 1, 2016

Daily newspaper from Henderson, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 1, 2016
Creator: Linebarger, Les
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Christy Martinez-Garcia, June 14, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Christy Martinez-Garcia, June 14, 2016

Christy Martinez-Garcia was born and raised in Lubbock. She attended Lubbock High School, Lamar University, and completed her degree at Texas Tech University. After college, Martinez-Garcia worked for the Lubbock city government and then for the National Council of La Raza in Washington D.C. Upon her return to Lubbock, Martinez-Garcia sought to counter the local media narrative that mostly only depicted Hispanics as criminals or only immigrants. Thus, she founded the magazine, Latino Lubbock. She also ran for a position in the Lubbock ISD Board of Trustees. Martinez-Garcia has participated in numerous community organizations and was responsible for the naming of Cesar Chavez street in Lubbock as well as having a historical marker for a what once a migrant labor camp.
Date: June 14, 2016
Creator: Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés & Martinez-Garcia, Christy
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Coleman Chronicle & DV (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 136, No. 26, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 29, 2016 (open access)

Coleman Chronicle & DV (Coleman, Tex.), Vol. 136, No. 26, Ed. 1 Wednesday, June 29, 2016

Weekly newspaper from Coleman, Texas that includes local, state, and national news along with advertising.
Date: June 29, 2016
Creator: Conn, Brittany
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History