Interview with Donald Payton, contributor ro the Dallas Historical Society and the Dallas Black Remembrance Project. Payton discusses his early life, his experience during integration in the 1960s at North Texas State University, being a Black soldier in Vietnam, time serving on the Dallas County Historical Commission and his affiliation with and Dallas Historical Society and Dallas Black Remembrance Project.

Interview with Edward Harris, who was an activist and later became an author. Harris discusses his book "In the Shadow of Big Tex", growing up in Dallas with his family, his college experience at El Centro College, Bishop College, and Arlington State College (now UTA), getting drafted, his activism with SNCC and Grassroots Incorporated, being arrested and later committed for "hypersensitivity to racial discrimination", and other community programs he was involved in.

Interview with William H. Cotton, who was an administrator with Dallas ISD. Cotton discusses growing up on a farm in Hammond, Texas, the changes he experienced and took part in at DISD as it was desegregated and passed through multiple superintendents, having to work multiple jobs, and the other administrators and convocations he attended.

Interview with Hollis Brashear, who was the Dallas ISD School Board President and a retired Army officer. Brashear discusses his early life in Dallas, TX, college at Prairie View, becoming an officer in the military, his time being stationed overseas, and his experiences leading the school district.