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Oral History Interview with Gloria Campos, October 24, 2012 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Gloria Campos, October 24, 2012

Interview with Gloria Campos, a journalist in Dallas, Texas. The interview includes biographical information about her life growing up, her educational background, and her career as a reporter.
Date: October 24, 2012
Creator: Aguilar, Elvira & Campos, Gloria
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Katie Sherrod, November 10, 2012 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Katie Sherrod, November 10, 2012

Interview with Katie Sherrod, a journalist in Dallas and Forth Worth, Texas. The interview includes biographical information about her life growing up, her educational background, her involvement in various women's rights movements during the 1970s, and her career as a newspaperwoman and a broadcast journalist.
Date: November 10, 2012
Creator: Mehdi, Sahar; Nolasea, Diana & Sherrod, Katie
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Clarice Tinsley, November 11, 2012 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Clarice Tinsley, November 11, 2012

Interview with Clarice Tinsley, a journalist in Dallas, Texas. The interview includes biographical information about her life growing up, her educational background, and her career as a reporter and a news anchor.
Date: November 11, 2012
Creator: Obamehinti, Lola; Blankenship, Sara; Ortega, Gabriel Morty; Tinsley, Clarice; DeWalt, Christinia Childs & Obamehinti, Lola
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Norma Adams-Wade, April 6, 2012 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Norma Adams-Wade, April 6, 2012

Interview with Norma Adams-Wade, a journalist in Dallas, Texas. The interview includes biographical information about her life growing up, her educational background, and her career doing investigative reporting and other writing for The Dallas Morning News.
Date: April 6, 2012
Creator: Sanders, Tiffany; Lopez, Adriana; Ratnam, Cheran & Adams-Wade, Norma
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Carolyn Barta, March 30, 2012 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Carolyn Barta, March 30, 2012

Interview with Carolyn Barta,a journalist and professor in Dallas, Texas. The interview includes biographical information about her educational background and her career writing for The Dallas Morning News about features and covering political campaigns.
Date: March 30, 2012
Creator: Nishimoto, Eric; Halloran, David; Slingerland, Carli & Barta, Carolyn
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Vivian Castleberry, March 29, 2012 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Vivian Castleberry, March 29, 2012

Interview with Vivian Castleberry,a journalist in Dallas, Texas. The interview includes biographical information about her life growing up, her educational background, family life raising her children, and her international peace work. She also discusses her career at The Dallas Times Herald and the field of journalism.
Date: March 29, 2012
Creator: Guzman, Samantha; Cousineau, Desiree & Castleberry, Vivian, 1922-
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Karen Hughes, April 12, 2012 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Karen Hughes, April 12, 2012

Interview with Karen Hughes,a journalist and political advisor who worked in Dallas, Texas. The interview includes biographical information about her life growing up, her educational background, and her career at KXAS-TV Channel 5. She also talks about her time as an advisor to George W. Bush, starting when he ran for governor in 1994.
Date: April 12, 2012
Creator: Riddell, Brad & Hughes, Karen, 1957-
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Suzie Humphreys, March 15, 2012 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Suzie Humphreys, March 15, 2012

Interview with Suzie Humphreys,a former journalist in Dallas, Texas. The interview includes biographical information about her life growing up, her educational background, her work reporting for Channel 8 and KVIL radio station, and her career as a motivational speaker.
Date: March 15, 2012
Creator: Randle, Garret; Wood, Annie & Humphreys, Suzie
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Rena Pederson, April 5, 2012 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Rena Pederson, April 5, 2012

Interview with Rena Pederson, a former journalist in Dallas, Texas. The interview includes biographical information about her life growing up, her educational background, her career with The Dallas Morning News and other newspapers, the books she has written, and her work in communications and public affairs.
Date: April 5, 2012
Creator: Harding, Anne; Dann, Lori & Pederson, Rena
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Gayle Reaves-King, April 4, 2012 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Gayle Reaves-King, April 4, 2012

Interview with Gayle Reaves-King,a journalist in Fort Worth, Texas. The interview includes biographical information about her life growing up, her educational background, family life, and her career with The Dallas Morning News and other newspapers.
Date: April 5, 2012
Creator: Ayers, Cesta & Reaves-King, Gayle
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Pauline Dixon, August 1990

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Interview with Pauline Dixon, a teacher and longtime resident of Hamilton Park from Pittsburg, Texas. Dixon discusses her education, her father's work as assistant sheriff in segregated Pittsburg, the Classroom Teachers of Dallas, moving to Hamilton Park, development of the area, the "buy out" of the neighborhood, the Civic League, desegregation and busing, and her political work.
Date: August 1990
Creator: Wilson, William H. & Dixon, Pauline
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Charles M. Lagow, October 11, 2000

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Interview with Charles M. Lagow, a Army WWII veteran from Dallas, Texas. Lagow discusses his family history, attending Texas A&M, joining the CCC, the lead up to war, activation and training with the 352nd Engineer Battalion, deployment to Khorramshahr, Iran, building roads, delivering supplies to the Soviets, crash landing in a B-17 in Palestine, returning to the States and transfer to the 1346th Eng. Bat., deployment to Okinawa, occupation duty and Japanese holdouts, thoughts on Hideki Tojo, attitudes towards the Japanese, shell shock and mental breakdowns, the atomic bomb, and life after the war.
Date: October 11, 2000
Creator: Ripley, Christopher & Lagow, Charles Marshall
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Freddie and Ola Lee Allen, 1991

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Interview with Freddie and Ola Lee Allen, a married couple living in Hamilton Park, both from Marshall, Texas. The Allens discuss their family backgrounds and education, Mr. Allen's service in the Navy during WWII and work in the construction business, Mrs. Allen's work with Richardson ISD and Richland College, their children, moving to Hamilton Park, the neighborhood's development, organizational activities with the Civic League and others, the schools, desegregation, and the "buy out."
Date: 1991-02/1991-03
Creator: Wilson, William H.; Allen, Freddie & Allen, Ola Lee
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with William Waybourn, May 22, 2013

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Interview with William Waybourn, an LGBT activist from Matador, Texas. Waybourn discusses his early life and education, his work in journalism, his partner, the Dallas Times Herald, his family, working for Market Center, the relationship between the gay community and Dallas community figureheads, the Dallas Gay Alliance, the Dallas "gayborhood," Texas Penal Code 21.06 (the "homosexual conduct" law), police harassment, the Fifth Circuit Court, the AIDS epidemic, fighting medical discrimination, the Gay and Lesbian Victory Fund, the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, and reflections on his career.
Date: May 22, 2013
Creator: Mims, Michael & Waybourn, William
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Sheila R. Allen, 1991

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Interview with Sheila Allen, an attorney and longtime resident of Hamilton Park from Dallas, Texas. Allen discusses attending school in Hamilton Park, integration in Richardson ISD and relations between white and black students, discrimination, attending East Texas State and Sam Houston University, struggles finding work afterwards, law school, church life, reflections on the Hamilton Park community, resisting "Buy Out," the Civic League, and thoughts on the future.
Date: 1991-06/1991-09
Creator: Wilson, William H. & Allen, Sheila R.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Emre Ersin Ozer, January 19, 2013

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Interview with Emre Ersin Ozer, a software engineer and immigrant to Texas from Sivas, Turkey. Ozer discusses his family background, his education, his marriage, Turkish culture and community in the US, the effect of the 2008 financial crisis, immigration, graduate school, work, and citizenship.
Date: January 19, 2013
Creator: Hedrick, Amy & Ozer, Emre Ersin
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Jack Evans and George Harris, January 20, 2016

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Interview with Jack Evans and George Harris, LGBT activists and a couple of over fifty years from Denton, Texas. They discuss Evans' time in the Coast Guard, Harris' time in and expulsion from the CIA, realizing their sexuality, meeting one another, moving to Dallas, police harassment, their wedding in 2014, involvement with United Methodist Church, the North Texas GLBT Chamber of Commerce and involvement in the Dallas LGBT community, and the AIDS epidemic.
Date: January 20, 2016
Creator: Wisely, Karen; Evans, Jack & Harris, George
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Barbara J. Darden, 1990-1991

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Interview with Barbara Darden, a nurse and resident of Hamilton Park from Dallas, Texas. Darden discusses her upbringing and education, nursing, her family, moving to Hamilton Park and the neighborhood's development, school involvement, desegregation and busing, and the Interorganizational Council and the Civic League.
Date: 1990-12/1991-10
Creator: Wilson, William H. & Darden, Barbara J.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Richard Vincent, March 14, 2006

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Interview with Richard Vincent, a member and former pastor of the Metropolitan Community Church from Kirksville, Missouri. Vincent discusses his education and religious background, the Circle of Friends in Dallas and discovering the Metropolitan Community Church, establishing MCC Dallas, ministering to prisoners, becoming the first pastor of MCC Dallas, cooperation with bars and other LGBT community establishments, the congregation, moving the church, his theology, succeeding pastors, and reflections on his ministry.
Date: March 14, 2006
Creator: Mims, Michael & Vincent, Richard
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Diego Echevarria, October 14, 2015

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Interview with Diego Echevarria, an Mexican-American immigrant from Mexico City. Echevarria discusses his childhood, life in Mexico City, living in Piedras Negras, Coahuila, moving to Texas City, experiences in school, moving to Irving, Texas, ESL, reflections on Mexico City, the visa process, the DREAM Act, employment, and immigration rhetoric in America.
Date: October 14, 2015
Creator: Nichols, Cynthia & Echevarria, Diego
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Curtis J. Smith, 1990

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Interview with Curtis J. Smith, a airline industry worker and community organizer from Longview, Texas. Smith discusses his family history, his education, working for his father, moving to Dallas, service in the Navy during WWII, getting married, working for Braniff International and American Airlines, living in Hamilton Park, his children, church activities, work with the Interorganizational Council and the Civic League, and development of the neighborhood.
Date: 1990-02/1990-03
Creator: Wilson, William H. & Smith, Curtis J.
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with E. Maurice Keathley, May 24, 1995

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Interview with E. Maurice Keathely, an employee of Prudential Insurance from Houston, Texas, who was involved in the Kaiser-Prudential joint venture. Keahtley discusses his educational background, work at Prudential, his responsibilities with "Kai-Pru", the value and benefits of the venture, key members of the companies, the financial arrangement and organization of the venture, marketing, HMO's, inter-company cooperation, difficulties and criticisms, and the Texas Medical Association.
Date: May 24, 1995
Creator: Pinkney, Kathryn & Keathley, E. Maurice
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Ruth (Rob) Shivers, April 29, 2016

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Interview with Rob Shivers, a Dallas-area LGBT activist from Birmingham, Alabama. Shivers discusses discovering her sexuality, her relationships, nursing school, church involvement, closeting and her marriage, jobs worked, moving to Dallas, the LGBT community, joining the Metropolitan Community Church and establishing a parish in Dallas, organizing the first Pride parades in the area, political activism and police interference, death threats, and the Kennedy Assassination.
Date: April 29, 2016
Creator: Wisely, Karen & Shivers, Ruth (Rob)
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Mary Franklin, October 18, 2013

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Interview with Mary Franklin, an activist in the Dallas LGBT community from Riverhead, New York. Franklin discusses her family background, the neighborhood she grew up in in, dyslexia and struggles in school, her sexuality and coming out, the LGBT scene on Long Island, "gay" as a term, her first girlfriend, Anita Bryant, applying for a marriage license on National Coming Out Day, feminism and activism, moving to Dallas, the decriminalization of homosexuality in Texas, the HIV-AIDS epidemic, threats, involvement with the Unitarian Church, working at the Food Pantry, and changes in societal attitudes towards LGBT.
Date: October 18, 2013
Creator: Castillo, Vogel Vladimir & Franklin, Mary
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library