Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a Seagraves dry goods store owner, M. W. Moseley, selling artificially colored sand gathered from the West Texas desert to be used as art supplies.

Patricia A. Thomas was born in 1957 in Andrews, Texas, where she grew up. She entered elementary school in an integrated school where many of her classmates as well as some teachers physically and verbally abused the African American students. Thomas first attended Lincoln Elementary and then Jack and Jill Elementary. In junior high and high school, Thomas adapted many black nationalists or “radical” viewpoints, which led her to call for the teaching of African American history in her high school. She graduated from Andrews high school in 1976. After high school, Thomas moved to Dallas where she attended Bishop College. She subsequently lived in various communities that included Big Springs, Odessa, Amarillo, and Seminole, Texas.

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a Seagraves dry goods store owner, M. W. Moseley, selling artificially colored sand gathered from the West Texas desert to be used as art supplies.