Regional Water Plan: Region H, 2016, Volume 1. Main Report (open access)

Regional Water Plan: Region H, 2016, Volume 1. Main Report

Water plan for Region H describing water resources and suppliers in the area, usage statistics and forecasts, water needs, water management strategies, water conservation methods, drought response plans, financing methods, and the process of creation of the plan.
Date: November 2015
Creator: Region H Water Planning Group
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interview with Reby Cary, April 14, 2014

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Interview with Reby Cary, a professor, Texas State legislator, and civil rights activist from Fort Worth, Texas. Cary discusses attending Prairie View A&M, WWII service in the Coast Guard, segregation, his authorship, teaching at Dunbar HS, being the first black member of a schoolboard and the first black professor at UT Arlington, his tenure as a Texas State Congressman, experiences of discrimination, his experiences in the Civil Rights Movement, and his thoughts on Martin Luther King Jr., Barack Obama, and other black leaders. In appendix are photographs of Cary's various awards and the program for a Baptist service celebrated in his honor.
Date: April 14, 2014
Creator: Fant, Christopher E. & Cary, Reby
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Perri McCary, July 28, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Perri McCary, July 28, 2016

Perri "P.K." McCary was born in 1953 in Texarkana. She grew-up in a ethnically diverse community in Alamo Garden, New Mexico and later lived near Prairie View A&M University when her father obtained a teaching position in the Industrial Education Department. McCary's parents gave her the tools to resist discrimination by exhibiting a strong sense of self and for confronting racist acts in front of her. She would opt to attend Jack Yates High School when her family moved to Houston because of the poor treatment of African-American students at the predominately white Madison High School. By 1970, McCary was attending the University of Houston and becoming involved in student activism. She would later engage in peace work and adapting religious texts with Black urban language to appeal to youth. She talks about instances of racism growing up, how her early experiences with diversity shaped the ways in which she engaged in cross-racial collaborations in her adult life, how Deloyed Parker and Ester King mentored her at UH, police brutality, and her family's association with the political movements of the 1960s and 1970s. She also discusses SHAPE Community Center and the Elders Institute of Wisdom, when she wrote a newspaper …
Date: July 28, 2016
Creator: Enriquez, Sandra; Rodriguez, Samantha & McCary, Perri
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History