Catalog of Texas Tech University, 2021-2022, Undergraduate/Graduate (open access)

Catalog of Texas Tech University, 2021-2022, Undergraduate/Graduate

Catalog of undergraduate and graduate courses offered by Texas Tech University for the year 2021-2022, as well as general information about the university, programs, and policies.
Date: May 2021
Creator: Texas Tech University
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalog of Texas Tech University: 2019-2020, Undergraduate and Graduate (open access)

Catalog of Texas Tech University: 2019-2020, Undergraduate and Graduate

Catalog of undergraduate and graduate courses offered by Texas Tech University for the year 2019-2020, as well as general information about the university, programs, and policies.
Date: May 2019
Creator: Texas Tech University
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalog of Texas Tech University, 2018-2019, Undergraduate and Graduate (open access)

Catalog of Texas Tech University, 2018-2019, Undergraduate and Graduate

Catalog of undergraduate and graduate courses offered by Texas Tech University for the year 2018-2019, as well as general information about the university, programs, and policies.
Date: May 2018
Creator: Texas Tech University
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalog of Texas Tech University, 2017-2018, Undergraduate and Graduate (open access)

Catalog of Texas Tech University, 2017-2018, Undergraduate and Graduate

Catalog of undergraduate and graduate courses offered by Texas Tech University for the year 2017-2018, as well as general information about the university, programs, and policies.
Date: May 2017
Creator: Texas Tech University
Object Type: Book
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
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
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
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
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
Regional Water Plan: Region O (Llano Estacado), 2016, Volume 1. Main Report (open access)

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
Catalog of Texas Tech University, 2015-2016, Undergraduate and Graduate (open access)

Catalog of Texas Tech University, 2015-2016, Undergraduate and Graduate

Catalog of undergraduate and graduate courses offered by Texas Tech University for the year 2015-2016, as well as general information about the university, programs, and policies.
Date: May 2015
Creator: Texas Tech University
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
The Cross Section, Volume 60, Number 9, September 2014 (open access)

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
The Cross Section, Volume 60, Number 8, August 2014 (open access)

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
Catalog of Texas Tech University, 2014-2015, Undergraduate and Graduate (open access)

Catalog of Texas Tech University, 2014-2015, Undergraduate and Graduate

Catalog of undergraduate and graduate courses offered by Texas Tech University for the year 2014-2015, as well as general information about the university, programs, and policies.
Date: 2014
Creator: Texas Tech University
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with William Waybourn, May 22, 2013

Access: Use of this item is restricted to the UNT Community
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
Catalog of Texas Tech University, 2013-2014, Unergraduate and Graduate (open access)

Catalog of Texas Tech University, 2013-2014, Unergraduate and Graduate

Catalog of undergraduate and graduate courses offered by Texas Tech University for the year 2013-2014, as well as general information about the university, programs, and policies.
Date: May 2013
Creator: Texas Tech University
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalog of Texas Tech University, 2012-2013, Undergraduate and Graduate (open access)

Catalog of Texas Tech University, 2012-2013, Undergraduate and Graduate

Catalog of undergraduate and graduate courses offered by Texas Tech University for the year 2012-2013, as well as general information about the university, programs, and policies.
Date: May 2012
Creator: Texas Tech University
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalog of Texas Tech University, 2011-2012, Undergraduate and Graduate (open access)

Catalog of Texas Tech University, 2011-2012, Undergraduate and Graduate

Catalog of undergraduate and graduate courses offered by Texas Tech University for the year 2011-2012, as well as general information about the university, programs, and policies.
Date: May 2011
Creator: Texas Tech University
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Transcript of Oral History Interview with Homer James "Jim" Avery, August 14, 2008 (open access)

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
Oral History Interview with Cleatus A. LeBow, May 2, 2006 transcript

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
Transactions of the Regional Archeological Symposium for Southeastern New Mexico and Western Texas: 2003 (open access)

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
Vistas, Volume 11, Number 2, Summer 2003 (open access)

Vistas, Volume 11, Number 2, Summer 2003

Magazine published by Texas Tech University describing faculty research and activities, and other information of interest to university community members.
Date: Summer 2003
Creator: Texas Tech University
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Westerner World (Lubbock, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 5, Ed. 1 Monday, April 7, 1997 (open access)

Westerner World (Lubbock, Tex.), Vol. 67, No. 5, Ed. 1 Monday, April 7, 1997

Student newspaper from Lubbock High School in Lubbock, Texas that includes local and school news along with advertising.
Date: April 7, 1997
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Newspaper
System: The Portal to Texas History