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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
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
Transcript of Oral History Interview with Homer James "Jim" Avery, August 14, 2008
Interview with Homer James "Jim" Avery, founder of James Avery Craftsman from Kerrville, Texas. Mr. Avery discusses his childhood, education, service in World War II, and starting and developing his jewelry business. The interview includes photographs of Mr. Avery, on pages 35-41.
Date:
August 14, 2008
Creator:
Collins, Francelle Robison; Webb, Jeanie Archer; Leonard, Julie Mosty & Avery, Homer James
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Texas and Southwestern Lore
Collection of popular folklore from Texas and the Southwest, including ballads, cowboy songs, Native American myths, superstitions and other miscellaneous folk tales. It also contains the proceedings of the Texas Folklore Society. The index begins on page 243.
Date:
1927
Creator:
Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Avalanche. (Lubbock, Texas), Vol. 14, No. 34, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 26, 1914
Weekly newspaper from Lubbock, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
February 26, 1914
Creator:
Dow, James L.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Avalanche. (Lubbock, Texas), Vol. 19, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, September 5, 1918
Weekly newspaper from Lubbock, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
September 5, 1918
Creator:
Dow, James L.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Lubbock Avalanche. (Lubbock, Texas), Vol. 12, No. 33, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 22, 1912
Weekly newspaper from Lubbock, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
February 22, 1912
Creator:
Dow, James L.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Lubbock Avalanche. (Lubbock, Texas), Vol. 10, No. 30, Ed. 1 Thursday, February 3, 1910
Weekly newspaper from Lubbock, Texas that includes local, state and national news along with extensive advertising.
Date:
February 3, 1910
Creator:
Dow, James L. & Turner, John F.
Object Type:
Newspaper
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
A History of Lubbock
Book discusses the history of Lubbock, Texas including the physical geography of the area and the history of the people living there focusing on economics, government, education, agriculture, and other aspects of daily life. Index starts on page 642.
Date:
1962
Creator:
Graves, Lawrence L.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
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
The Cross Section, Volume 20, Number 5, May 1974
Monthly newsletter of the High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1, discussing the field of underground water. Topics include profiles of water conservation research, annual pre-plant soil moisture survey data, annual Winter Water Level measurement data, and information about the latest water conservation tips.
Date:
May 1974
Creator:
High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 (Tex.)
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Cross Section, Volume 60, Number 8, August 2014
Monthly newsletter of the High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1, discussing the field of underground water. Topics include profiles of water conservation research, annual pre-plant soil moisture survey data, annual Winter Water Level measurement data, and information about the latest water conservation tips.
Date:
August 2014
Creator:
High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 (Tex.)
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Cross Section, Volume 60, Number 9, September 2014
Monthly newsletter of the High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1, discussing the field of underground water. Topics include profiles of water conservation research, annual pre-plant soil moisture survey data, annual Winter Water Level measurement data, and information about the latest water conservation tips.
Date:
September 2014
Creator:
High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 (Tex.)
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Ike Walker, September 16, 1981
Transcript of an interview with Ike Walker, one of the founders of Bomber Bait Company in Gainesville, Texas. Walker discusses his family background, his employment as a gasoline retailer and tire repair operator, and his interest in designing fish baits that led to the development of the Bomber Bait Company with Clarence Turbeville in 1945.
Date:
September 16, 1981
Creator:
Jenkins, Floyd & Walker, Ike
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Ethic of Responsibility
Text of a commencement speech delivered by Barbara Jordan to the graduating class of Texas Tech University Law School. She discusses the necessity of values in the legal profession and how lawyers are the defenders of democracy.
Date:
May 13, 1995
Creator:
Jordan, Barbara, 1936-1996
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Regional Water Plan: Region O (Llano Estacado), 2016, Volume 1. Main Report
Water plan for Region O (Llano Estacado) describing water resources and suppliers for the area, usage statistics and forecasts, water needs, water management strategies for suppliers, drought response plans, financing of the plan, and the process of creating the plan. Includes a dedication to Delaine Baucom (1952-2014).
Date:
December 1, 2015
Creator:
Llano Estacado Regional Water Planning Group
Object Type:
Report
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with William Waybourn, May 22, 2013
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Interview with William Waybourn, an LGBT activist from Matador, Texas. Waybourn discusses his early life and education, his work in journalism, his partner, the Dallas Times Herald, his family, working for Market Center, the relationship between the gay community and Dallas community figureheads, the Dallas Gay Alliance, the Dallas "gayborhood," Texas Penal Code 21.06 (the "homosexual conduct" law), police harassment, the Fifth Circuit Court, the AIDS epidemic, fighting medical discrimination, the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, and reflections on his career.
Date:
May 22, 2013
Creator:
Mims, Michael & Waybourn, William
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Cleatus A. LeBow, May 2, 2006
Interview with Cleatus A. LeBow, a serviceman in the U. S. Navy during World War II. LeBow joined the navy in 1943 and went from Lubbock, Texas to San Diego for recruit training. He shipped out to Pearl Harbor aboard an LST from San Francisco. At Pearl Harbor, he was assigned to a work detail aboard the USS Oklahoma, which had just been righted. Shortly thereafter, he boarded the USS Indianapolis to serve as a range finder operator on one of the gun turrets. Upon leaving Hawaii, the Indianapolis went to Tarawa and then the Marshall Islands. LeBow witnessed Japanese civilian suicides on Saipan. He also witnessed the flag-raising on Iwo Jima from his range finder position aboard the ship. LeBow describes being hit by a kamikaze off Okinawa. He also discusses delivering atomic bomb components to Tinian and being torpedoed on the way to the Philippines. He describes abandoning the ship and spending five days in the water, including his faith in God, hallucinations, rescue, and his recovery.
Date:
May 2, 2006
Creator:
Misenhimer, Richard & Lebow, Cleatus A.
Object Type:
Sound
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Joseph Henry Reuss: Founding Chairman of the Texas Surgical Society
Presidential address given by James E. Pridgen before the Texas Surgical Society, providing a biographical sketch of Joseph Henry Reuss, who served as the first chairman of the Society. It includes a handwritten letter from Pridgen and an introductory statement.
Date:
October 2, 1978
Creator:
Pridgen, James E.
Object Type:
Text
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Transactions of the Regional Archeological Symposium for Southeastern New Mexico and Western Texas: 2003
Proceedings of the 39th regional archeological symposium including the text of papers presented during the conference. It also includes the SWFAS by-laws and April 4, 2003 financial statement.
Date:
2004
Creator:
Robertson, Pinky
Object Type:
Book
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Hoein' the Short Rows
Volume of Texas folklore, including folk arts and crafts, lime production, oil and petroleum, information about cockfighting, folk poetry, mysticism and other stories. The index begins on page 231.
Date:
1987
Creator:
Texas Folklore Society
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 44, July 1940 - April, 1941
The Texas State Historical Association Quarterly Report includes "Papers read at the meetings of the Association, and such other contributions as may be accepted by the Committee" (volume 1, number 1). These include historical sketches, biographical material, personal accounts, and other research. Index is located at the end of the volume starting on page 533.
Date:
1941
Creator:
Texas State Historical Association
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
The Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Volume 67, July 1963 - April, 1964
The Texas State Historical Association Quarterly Report includes "Papers read at the meetings of the Association, and such other contributions as may be accepted by the Committee" (volume 1, number 1). These include historical sketches, biographical material, personal accounts, and other research. Index is located at the end of the volume starting on page 635.
Date:
1964
Creator:
Texas State Historical Association
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History