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Oral History Interview with Leroy Sterling, July 6, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Leroy Sterling, July 6, 2015

Interview with Leroy Sterling, an Army veteran and educator from Bryan, Texas. In his interview, Sterling discusses his family background, living under Jim Crow segregation, segregated neighborhoods and housing, agricultural work, military service and his experience being one of the first African-American students to attend Texas A&M University.
Date: July 6, 2015
Creator: Sterling, Leroy & Bynum, Katherine
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Jesse Marvin Walker, July 8, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Jesse Marvin Walker, July 8, 2015

Interview with Jesse Marvin Walker, a bail bondsman from Bryan, Texas. In the interview, Walker discusses his early life, attending segregated schools, the civil rights movement, college activism, and working at NASA.
Date: July 8, 2015
Creator: Walker, Jesse Marvin; Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés & Bynum, Katherine
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Alphonso Saenz, July 22, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Alphonso Saenz, July 22, 2015

Interview with Al Saenz, a city councilman from Bryan, Texas. In the interview, Saenz discusses his family background, civil rights organizations and the Mexican-American community in Bryan. Saenz also discusses time living in Houston during his childhood.
Date: July 22, 2015
Creator: Saenz, Alphonso & Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Barbara Cooper, July 17, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Barbara Cooper, July 17, 2015

Interview with Barbara Cooper, retired business owner from Bryan, Texas. Cooper discusses her family history, childhood, education, work and family life, and experiences with Jim Crow segregation in Bryan
Date: July 17, 2015
Creator: Cooper, Barbara & Bynum, Katherine
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Ann Boney, July 20, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Ann Boney, July 20, 2015

Interview with Ann Boney, retired staff of Texas A&M University and president of the Brazos County NAACP from Bryan, Texas. Boney describes her early life and education, her employment around the state, including working at the Benz School of Floral Design at Texas A&M. Ms. Boney also discusses her experiences as president of her local chapter of the NAACP and current community issues addressed by the organization.
Date: July 20, 2015
Creator: Boney, Ann; Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés & Bynum, Katherine
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Robert Person, July 17, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Robert Person, July 17, 2015

Interview with Robert Person, an educator from Bryan, Texas. In the interview, Person discusses higher education at Texas Southern University, activism at TSU, including the 1967 riot, segregation in Bryan, community activism, school integration, and race relations.
Date: July 17, 2015
Creator: Person, Robert & Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Velma Spivey, July 15, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Velma Spivey, July 15, 2015

Interview with Velma Spivey, a social worker from Bryan, Texas. In her interview, Spivey discusses her early life, living under segregation, her education, and career.
Date: July 15, 2015
Creator: Spivey, Velma & Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Effie Perry, July 12, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Effie Perry, July 12, 2015

Interview with Effie Perry, an educator from Bryan, Texas. In the interview, Perry discusses her family history, experiences with racial discrimination and segregation, education, access to healthcare, civil rights activism, integration, her teaching career, union activity, and community service.
Date: July 15, 2015
Creator: Perry, Effie & Bynum, Katherine
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Wayne Sadberry, July 8, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Wayne Sadberry, July 8, 2015

Interview with Wayne Sadberry, a curator at the Brazos Valley African-American Museum from Prairie View, Texas. Sadberry discusses his early life, family background, and living under Jim Crow segregation. Sadberry also discusses his education at St. Emma Military Academy in Powhatan, Virginia and service in the Air Force. He also discusses working as a research assistant on a grant project to Antarctica while a graduate student at Texas A&M.
Date: July 8, 2015
Creator: Sadberry, Wayne & Moye, Todd
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Mildred Davis, July 6, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Mildred Davis, July 6, 2015

Interview with Mildred Davis, teacher from Bryan, Texas. Davis discusses her childhood, education, career, and community involvement. She also discusses the Brazos Valley African American Museum.
Date: July 6, 2015
Creator: Davis, Mildred & Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Regional Water Plan: Region G (Brazos), 2016, Volume 1. Executive Summary and Regional Water Plan (open access)

Regional Water Plan: Region G (Brazos), 2016, Volume 1. Executive Summary and Regional Water Plan

Water plan for Region G (Brazos) describing water resources and suppliers for the area, usage statistics and forecasts, water needs, water supply plans for each county and city, recommended water management strategies, drought response plans, and the plan creation process.
Date: December 2015
Creator: Brazos G Water Planning Group
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History

Portal to Texas History Newspaper OCR Text Dataset: Bryan

Dataset of OCR text from The Portal to Texas History and the Texas Digital Newspaper Program. This dataset includes titles from Bryan Texas from the years 1883 to 1922. Titles included in this dataset include: Bryan Daily Eagle, Bryan Daily Eagle and Pilot, Bryan Morning Eagle, Bryan Morning Eagle and Pilot, The Brazos Weekly Pilot, The Bryan Daily Eagle, The Bryan Eagle, and The Bryan Weekly Eagle and Pilot . In all there are 5,843 issues comprised of 27,360 pages of text.
Date: November 12, 2015
Creator: Phillips, Mark Edward
Object Type: Dataset
System: The UNT Digital Library
Regional Water Plan: Region G (Brazos), 2016, Volume II. Identification, Evaluation, and Selection of Water Management Strategies (open access)

Regional Water Plan: Region G (Brazos), 2016, Volume II. Identification, Evaluation, and Selection of Water Management Strategies

Volume II of the Water plan for Region G (Brazos) including water management strategies, water conservation methods, wastewater reuse, new reservoirs, expansion of use of certain water sources, and water supply recommendations and projects.
Date: December 2015
Creator: Brazos G Water Planning Group
Object Type: Report
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Bessie and Lawrence Hicks, July 14, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Bessie and Lawrence Hicks, July 14, 2015

Interview with Lawrence and Bessie Hicks of Bryan, Texas. In their interview, the Hicks describe their experiences with racial discrimination and civil rights activism.
Date: July 14, 2015
Creator: Hicks, Lawrence; Lawrence, Bessie & Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
OTSC Quarterly Newsletter, Volume 22, Number 3, August 2015 (open access)

OTSC Quarterly Newsletter, Volume 22, Number 3, August 2015

Quarterly newsletter for the Office of the Texas State Chemist, containing news about the activities of the agency as well as other related information
Date: August 2015
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Chemist.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
OTSC Quarterly Newsletter, Volume 22, Number 4, October 2, 2015 (open access)

OTSC Quarterly Newsletter, Volume 22, Number 4, October 2, 2015

Quarterly newsletter for the Office of the Texas State Chemist, containing news about the activities of the agency as well as other related information
Date: October 2, 2015
Creator: Texas. Office of the State Chemist.
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History