[Oral History Interview with Curtistene Smith McCowan] (open access)

[Oral History Interview with Curtistene Smith McCowan]

Interview with Curtistene Smith McCowan, member and supporter of the NAACP and Urban League. McCowan discusses her upbringing, family, affiliation with the NAACP and Urban League, her involvement with the PTA in her sons' schools and how she advocated for more minority teachers and administrators and equal treatment of Black students, and her seat on the school board in Desoto.
Date: September 23, 2011
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Oral History Interview with Rene Martinez] (open access)

[Oral History Interview with Rene Martinez]

Interview with Rene Martinez, an educator who has held roles as a teacher, campus administrator, and adjunct professor. Martinez discusses his upbringing and family life, his membership in the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), his experiences as a civil rights activist in Dallas, as well as his efforts in desegregation in Dallas schools.
Date: September 7, 2011
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Oral History Interview with Hector Flores] (open access)

[Oral History Interview with Hector Flores]

Interview with Hector Flores, who was a police officer, worked with the DOJ, and then became a DISD administrator. Flores discusses his early life in Dilley, TX and traveling to be a migrant worker with family before going to school and becoming the first to graduate in his family, joining the police force, and the jobs that led him to be an administrator in the Dallas school system during affirmative action and joining with LULAC.
Date: September 3, 2011
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Oral History Interview with Eva McMillan and Ernest McMillan (open access)

[Oral History Interview with Eva McMillan and Ernest McMillan

Interview with Eva McMillan and her son, Ernest McMillan, civil rights activists in Dallas. Mrs. McMillan discusses her upbringing, home life, her affiliation with the Dallas Progressive Voters League and SNCC and her activism in Dallas. Mr. McMillan discusses his upbringing, activism, prison sentence, and affiliations with SNCC and other civil rights organizations.
Date: September 2, 2011
Creator: unknown
System: The UNT Digital Library