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Oral History Interview with Catherine Bell, December 12, 1987
Interview with Catherine Bell, a public employee and community activist, about her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women's Interracial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Bell discusses the early organization and social activities, her experiences in a segregated environment, the street paving of the African American section of Denton, urban renewal, desegregation of public places in Denton, her political activities, desegregation of schools, and the jobs program.
Date:
December 12, 1987
Creator:
Byrd, R. W. (Richard W.) & Bell, Catherine, approximately 1920-
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Linnie McAdams, December 10, 1987
Interview with community activist Linnie McAdams from Denton, Texas. In the interview, McAdams discusses her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women's Inter-Racial Fellowship in the 1960s and 1970s. She also discusses what it was like growing up in a racist community, and includes memories concerning her personal educational experiences in segregated schools, the living conditions in the African-American section of Denton, and her personal employment experiences. McAdams recalls the desegregation of public schools, housing, and facilities as well as the integration of churches.
Date:
December 10, 1987
Creator:
Lohr, Mary & McAdams, Linnie
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Innerviewer, Spring 1987
Quarterly publication by Denton Independent School District with articles covering district news, information, and events, along with human interest stories about individual campus activities.
Date:
Spring 1987
Creator:
McGuire, Susan E.
Object Type:
Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Otis Cason, August 22, 1987
Interview with farmer Otis Cason. The interview includes Cason's personal experiences about rural life in Denton County, Texas from 1900 to 1987. Cason talks about breaking mules, rural school, sheep and goat raising, hog killing, and charcoal making.
Date:
August 22, 1987
Creator:
Renner, Steve & Cason, Otis
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Eunice Gray, October 16, 1987
Interview with Eunice Gray, schoolteacher and local historian. The interview includes Gray's personal experiences about Denton County, Texas from 1900 to 1987. Gray talks about the early history of her descendants, cattle raising and marketing, and the oil industry.
Date:
October 16, 1987
Creator:
Renner, Jim & Gray, Eunice
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Billy Barker, September 3, 1977
Interview with homemaker Billie Simpson Barker. The interview includes Barker's personal experiences about rural life in Denton County, Texas from 1925-1985. Barker talks about her father's sawmill operation, creek flooding, threshing operations, changes in land ownership, her husband's death, effects of the Great Depression, social life, the county's longtime residents, recreational activities, epidemics, wildlife problems, the tornado of June 8, 1937, her childhood, and homemade clothing.
Date:
September 3, 1987
Creator:
Renner, Steve & Barker, Billy
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Jane Armstrong, August 20, 1987
Interview with homemaker Jane Armstrong. The interview includes Armstrong's personal experiences about life on the Scott Jacobs Farm in Denton County. Armstrong talks about the purchase of the land by her grandfather, implements and outbuildings found on the farm, oil income and farm improvements during the 1920s and 1930s, rural entertainment and leisure activities, crops and planting, food preservation, in-town shopping, making homebrew and bootlegging activities, schools and churches, cemeteries, epidemics, and folk medicines and remedies.
Date:
August 20, 1987
Creator:
Renner, Steve & Armstrong, Jane
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Betty Kimble, December 8, 1987
Interview with community activist Betty Kimble from Denton, Texas. In the interview, Kimble discusses her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women's Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. She recalls memories from her days as a student both in East Texas and at North Texas State College. Kimble recollects the many events that concerned the desegregation of the North Texas State College and the City of Denton alike, which included student and citizen protesting that mostly supported Denton's strong white power presence. She recalls the desegregation of public restaurants, the street-paving of the African-American section of Denton, and voter registration changes. Kimble also comments on influential civil rights activists including Tennyson Miller and Abner Haynes.
Date:
December 8, 1987
Creator:
Harris, Jane & Kimble, Betty Jewel
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Euline Brock, October 27, 1987
Interview with Professor Euline Brock, community activist from Denton, Texas. In the interview, Brock discusses her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women's Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. She also comments on the early days of the organization, her personal experiences with discrimination, Denton's white power structure, the desegregation of public schools and facilities, the group's first meeting, political activities, urban renewal, and street paving in the African-American section of Denton.
Date:
October 27, 1987
Creator:
Byrd, Richard; Harris, Jane; Lohr, Mary & Brock, Euline
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Ann Barnett, November 13, 1987
Interview with schoolteacher and community activist Ann Barnett from Denton, Texas. In the interview, Barnett discusses her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women's Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. She also comments on her childhood in Nacogdoches, Texas, the desegregation of North Texas State College in 1950s, the student stand-in at Campus Theatre in Denton, the desegregation of restaurants and housing, social affairs, urban renewal, voter registration, the literacy program, the Denton Christian Preschool, meeting programs, and establishing dialogue between races.
Date:
November 13, 1987
Creator:
Harris, Jane & Barnett, Ann
Object Type:
Text
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Ely and William Sledge, August 21, 1987
Transcript of an interview with with William and Ely Sledge and their reminiscences and experiences concerning their father's farm near Pilot Point, Texas, 1900-1980. They discuss comments about their African-American ancestors; their descriptions of various pieces of old farm equipment strewn about the homestead; sorghum mill and syrup- making; hog butchering and meat preservation; water well; description of farm buildings; segregated education; home remedies; garden area; canning; rural social life and entertainment; trading among neighbors; cash crops (peanuts, cotton); harvesting; description of the interior of the family farmhouse and its contents; listening to boxing contests (Joe Louis and "Jersey Joe" Walcott) on the family radio; store-bought and mail order catalog items; "Juneteenth" celebrations; description of personal documents and papers, 1878-1931.
Date:
August 21, 1987
Creator:
Lohse, Stephen A.; Lebo, Susan A.; Sledge, William, 1928- & Sledge, Ely, 1934-
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Willie V. Jordan, June 3, 1987
Interview with Willie Jordan, a farmer and former member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Newport, Texas, regarding his experiences and memories of participating in the CCC during the Great Depression.
Date:
June 3, 1987
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Jordan, Willie V.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with David and Virginia Ciruli, April 18, 1987
Interview with David and Virginia Ciruli, farmers and ranchers from Pueblo, Colorado, to gather their recollections and experiences as second generation Italians. They discuss their education, the immigration experience of their parents, the establishment of their own farming and ranching business, and their children.
Date:
April 18, 1987
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E.; Ciruli, David & Ciruli, Virginia
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Ross Litman at Denton Cleanup Day]
Photograph of Ross Litman wearing an orange vest and baseball cap, holding a trash bag and a stick standing on the side of a road in front of a chain-link fence during the 1987 City of Denton Cleanup Day with houses, trees, and parked cars in the background.
Date:
1987
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Two linemen on an electrical pole]
Photograph of two linemen at work atop an electrical pole in Denton, Texas. They wear hard hats and tool belts.
Date:
1987~
Creator:
Denton (Tex.)
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Fallen telephone pole on truck]
Photograph of a fallen telephone pole that has fallen on a truck in Denton, Texas. The roof is caved in and windshield cracked. There is also damage to the front right side of the vehicle (left when looking on). Utility workers stand beside their truck on the right in the background.
Date:
1987~
Creator:
Denton (Tex.)
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[Utility crews trying to remove telephone pole from vehicle]
Photograph of utility crews trying to remove a fallen telephone pole from a truck in Denton, Texas. Several workers stand in the middle of the street near the downed pole. A worker walks along side a utility truck on the left. A mailbox sits on the grass on the right in front.
Date:
1987~
Creator:
Denton (Tex.)
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Clyde J. Shelton, July 27, 1987
Interview with Clyde J. Shelton, a United States Army veteran from Mexia, Texas, regarding his experiences and memories as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II after being captured when his artillery unit, the "Lost Battalion," was captured off the coast of java in 1942.
Date:
July 27, 1987
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Shelton, Clyde J.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A Descriptive History of Wesley College
The American junior colleges of today are historical accidents, some having begun originally with elementary and secondary divisions or as adjuncts of local high schools. Wesley College in Greenville, Texas, began on a two acre campus as North Texas University Training School in Terrell, Texas, in 1905. Chartered by the North Texas Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, the school initially provided elementary and high school and two years of college. At this time the name was changed to Wesley College, but the school closed in the spring of 1911. It reopened on a twenty acre campus in the fall of 1912 in Greenville, Texas, and maintained a close relationship with that city until mounting financial problems forced closure in 1938. Many records of the school were transferred to Southern Methodist University at Dallas, and in 1939, Wesley College alumni were invited to become associate members of the S.M.U. Ex-Students Association. Many associated with Wesley College continue to meet annually in Greenville to keep alive their memories of the once prestigious college. This study employs primary and secondary documentary data, as well as interviews with fifty-six individuals, to provide a chronological descriptive history of the origin, growth, development, and …
Date:
May 1987
Creator:
McMullin, William C. (William Craig)
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Dorothy Adkins, November 17, 1987
Interview with schoolteacher and community activist Dorothy Adkins from Denton, Texas. In the interview, Dorothy discusses her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women's Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. She also comments on the desegregation of schools and other public places in Denton, street paving in the African-American section of Denton, public housing, job opportunities, and the Denton Christian Preschool.
Date:
November 17, 1987
Creator:
Byrd, Richard & Adkins, Dorothy
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Trudy Foster, November 17, 1987
Interview with realtor and community activist Trudy Foster from Denton, Texas. In the interview, Foster discusses her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women's Inter-Racial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. She also comments on the early days of the organization, the desegregation of housing, schools, and public places in Denton, the tutoring program and Denton Christian Preschool, street paving in the African-American section of Denton, and urban renewal.
Date:
November 17, 1987
Creator:
Lohr, Mary & Foster, Trudy
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Woodrow Hill, November 15, 1987
Transcript of an interview with Woodrow Hill, a Navy veteran, concerning his experiences aboard the battleship USS Nevada during the Japanese attack at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Date:
November 15, 1987
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Hill, Woodrow, 1918-
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Paul Decker, November 14, 1987
Interview with Paul Decker, a United States Navy veteran from Maurepas, Louisiana, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while aboard the battleship USS California.
Date:
November 14, 1987
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Decker, Paul
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Lawrence Varnell, November 12, 1987
Interview with Lawrence Varnell, a United States Navy veteran from New Orleans, Louisiana, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while aboard the battleship USS Maryland.
Date:
November 12, 1987
Creator:
Marcello, Ronald E. & Varnell, Lawrence
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library