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Oral History Interview with Ali H. Heidari, April 20, 2011
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Interview with Ali Heidari, an Iranian immigrant, realtor, and restaurateur from Tehran. Heidari discusses growing up, education, moving to Athens, Texas in 1975, attending UT Arlington, getting into real estate, his family, his reaction to the 1979-81 hostage crisis, experiences as an immigrant in DFW, and his thoughts on American youth and culture.
Date:
April 20, 2011
Creator:
Nabors, Daniel J. & Heidari, Ali H.
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Audrey Daniels Kariel, August 6, 2019
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Interview with Audrey Kariel, former Mayor of Mashall, Texas, discussing her family, upbringing in Corsicana, being Jewish during World War II, segregation, her education and marriage, becoming Chairman of the City Commission as Mayor of Marshall, Texas, race relations over the years, and becoming Chair of the Marshall Chamber of Commerce.
Date:
August 6, 2019
Creator:
Lacy, David & Kariel, Audrey Daniels
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Brenda Fields, April 3, 2014
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Interview with Brenda Fields, former president of the Dallas chapter of the NAACP from Dallas, Texas. Fields discusses her childhood, school and church, becoming aware of race, segregation and discrimination, joining the NAACP youth organization, NAACP National Conventions, picketing the State Fair and other notable places in north Texas, the movement's impact, the role of black churches, voting, the Civil Rights Acts and changes after its passing, the influence of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcom X, the Black Panthers, King's assassination, work in Dallas ISD, and continued work with the NAACP, including tenure as president of the Dallas chapter. In appendix is Fields' "colored" ticket to the Texas State Fair from 1954.
Date:
April 3, 2014
Creator:
Smith, Tiffany & Fields, Brenda Alyce
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Bruce Monroe, November 9, 2013
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Interview with Bruce Monroe from San Antonio, Texas. Monroe discusses attending Texas A&M, coming out, the gay scene in Houston and Florida, the start of the AIDS epidemic, living in Dallas and work with the Dallas Gay Alliance, becoming president of the DGA, changing its name, the Dallas Buyers Club, work in Washington DC, living with HIV, Dallas Way, and art.
Date:
November 9, 2013
Creator:
Bravo, Francis & Monroe, Bruce
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Campbell Read, July 1, 2013
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Interview with Campbell Read, a professor at Southern Methodist University and Dallas-area LGBT activist from Edinburgh, Scotland. Read discusses fighting police harassment, organizing a televised rebuttal to televangelist James Robison's condemnation of the gay community, important members of the community in Dallas and Denton, attending college in Lebanon and the United States, becoming involved with gay rights' activities at SMU, his family, and bird-watching. In appendix are pictures of demonstration signs Read carried and relevant newspaper clippings.
Date:
July 1, 2013
Creator:
Wisely, Karen & Read, Campbell
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Clarence Broadnax, March 26, 2014
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Interview with Clarence Broadnax, a business owner and civil rights activist from Karnack, Texas. Broadnax discusses direct action challenging segregation at Dallas-area businesses, the unification of the Dallas civil rights movement, being jailed, civil rights figures, the Dallas Committee, segregation at sports games, becoming the first black hair stylist in the area, the Kennedy assassination, Barack Obama, nightlife and recreation in Karnack and Dallas, the Civil Rights Act, Dallas as a community, and reflections on his experiences.
Date:
March 26, 2014
Creator:
Fichera, Aaron & Broadnax, Clarence
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Claudia Bevill, May 25, 2013
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Audio log for a recording of an interview with flight attendant, Claudia Bevill. In the interview she discusses her career as a flight attendant of Braniff International Airways and the bankruptcy of Braniff on May 12, 1982. Appendix includes photos and a document titled "Braniff - My Coming of Age" written by Bevill.
Date:
May 25, 2013
Creator:
Schnur, Abra & Bevill, Claudia
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Text
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Oral History Interview with Claudio Durand, October 30, 2012
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Transcript of an interview with Claudio Durand, an Argentinian-born immigrant to Dallas, Texas, entrepreneur, and businessman. Durand shares concerning his childhood in Buenos Aires; educational and work history; living in Puerto Rico; visits to New York; immigration process; differences between Argentina and the United States; becoming American; and his thoughts on current immigration laws.
Date:
October 30, 2012
Creator:
Stallings, Chelsea & Durand, Claudio, 1938-
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Dana Lodge, March 19, 2013
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Interview with Dana Lodge, an employee of the Denton Conventions and Visitors Bureau from Dallas, Texas. Lodge discusses growing up, her education, her work in the restaurant industry, entering the hospitality industry and her work with the Bureau, festivals and events in Denton, local history, and plans for the future of Denton. In appendix are pictures of the Denton County Courthouse and the Confederate Soldiers memorial. Includes an appendix.
Date:
March 19, 2013
Creator:
Stallings, Chelsea & Lodge, Dana
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with David Taffet, November 12, 2013
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Interview with David Taffet, a Dallas-area LGBT activist from Yonkers, New York. Taffet discusses his education, coming out, anti-war activism at State University of New York at Albany, the SUNY Gay Alliance, moving to Dallas, the AIDS epidemic, police harassment and entrapment, working for the Custom Shop and the Dallas Voice, the "AIDS cocktail" and advancements in treatment of the illness, and grassroots politics.
Date:
November 12, 2013
Creator:
Graham, Celeste & Taffet, David
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Diane Ragsdale, April 21, 2014
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Interview with Diane Ragsdale, a civil rights activist and city councilwoman from Dallas, Texas. Ragsdale discusses her work with the NAACP Youth Council and Southern Christian Leadership Conference as a young person, school integration, various civil rights campaigns in Dallas, the South Dallas Information Center, neighborhood planning issues, marches and demonstrations, and her work on city council.
Date:
April 21, 2014
Creator:
Edelbrock, Kyle & Ragsdale, Diane
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Book
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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
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Douglas Chadwick, July 19, 2012
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Interview with Douglas Chadwick, former executive director of the UNT Foundation from Dallas, Texas. Chadwick discusses his family background and education at Southern Methodist University, his career in administration, work as Director of Planned Giving at UNT, involvement with the UNT Foundation and work as executive director, building connections and financial support, changes in the Foundation through the years, thoughts on the future of the Foundation and University, and his retirement.
Date:
July 19, 2012
Creator:
Kilgore, Deborah K. & Chadwick, Douglas
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Book
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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
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Erio Enzo Pedini, November 15, 2015
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Transcript of an interview with Erio Enzo Pedini, an immigrant from the Republic of San Marino. Pedini recounts memories growing up in the Republic of San Marino and going to school in Italy; Coming to America in 1958 and the differences in cultures and lifestyles; Living and working in Detroit, Michigan; becoming a U.S. citizen; moving to Dallas, Texas; and working in the building industry.
Date:
November 15, 2015
Creator:
Alexander, Matthew & Pedini, Erio Enzo 1946-
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Erma Thomson, January 22, 2019
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Interview with Erma Thomson, longtime employee of Mary Kay Inc. as personal assistant to Mary Kay Ash. She discusses her employment history before interviewing with Mary Kay Inc.; personal relationship with Mary Kay Ash; memories of annual conventions; Ash’s personal working style and business philosophy; changes in the company’s structure and culture; and feelings about the job opportunities Ash provided for women.
Date:
January 22, 2019
Creator:
Chegwidden, Caitlin & Thomson, Erma
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Eva McMillan, April 25, 2014
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Interview with Eva McMillan, a civil rights activist from Tennessee. McMillan discusses growing up in the segregated South, her family, early involvement in civil rights, experiences of racism and discrimination, her son Ernie's establishing a chapter of the SNCC at UT Arlington, Ernie's arrests and imprisonment, founding various advocacy and activism groups in Dallas, milestones and tragedies of the Civil Rights Movement, conflict with the police and the decline of the SNCC, and reflections on her work. In appendix are photos of McMillan and Dallas-area civil rights activists, a flier, and newspaper clippings.
Date:
April 25, 2014
Creator:
Smith, Tiffany & McMillan, Eva
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Evilu Pridgeon, October 24, 2015
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Transcript of an interview with Evilu Pridgeon, educator and longtime Dallas LGBT activist, for the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Pridgeon discusses her childhood in Austin, Texas; education; work history; coming out; Dallas LGBT history; AIDS crisis in Dallas; LGBT activism; The Dallas Way; diversity in the gay community.
Date:
October 24, 2015
Creator:
Wisely, Karen & Pridgeon, Evilu, 1949-
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Fernando Sanchez, November 1, 2013
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Transcript of an interview with Fernando "Fernie" Sanchez, Dallas Latino community AIDS activist and services coordinator. Sanchez shares concerning his childhood in El Paso, Texas; move to Dallas, Texas after graduating from UT-El Paso; various Dallas County jobs; AIDS activism; development of AIDS services in the Latino community; AIDS Arms and other organizations; HIV/AIDS stigma within the community; needs among and difficulties encountered by minority HIV/AIDS patients.
Date:
November 1, 2013
Creator:
Bundschuh, Molly Ellen & Sanchez, Fernando, 1960-
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Francisco A. Gonzalez, October 30, 2012
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Interview with Francisco Gonzalez, a journalist from San Miguel, El Salvador. Gonzalez discusses his education, growing up during the civil war, having his appendix removed, his brother's involvement in the war, attending medical school, transition to law school and working as a journalist, moving to the US and attending UNT, work with the Dallas Magazine, his marriage, and revisiting El Salvador.
Date:
October 30, 2012
Creator:
Malone, Timothy A. & Gonzalez, Francisco A.
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Gary G. Olp, August 7, 2019
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Transcript of an interview with Gary Olp, an architect and the founder of GGO Architects (the first green architecture firm in Dallas). He discusses how he became involved in sustainable architecture and with LEED rating systems, as well as his community outreach activities related to various green practices.
Date:
August 7, 2019
Creator:
Stark, Johnnie & Olp, Gary Gene
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with George and Wanda Holcombe, January 2, 2017
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Interview with George Holcombe, a Methodist pastor and civil rights activist from Houston, Texas, and his wife and associate Wanda, from Sims, Texas. The Holcombes discuss their family origins, initial exposure to racial problems and civil rights, their respective educations, pastoral work in Baton Rouge and Chicago, the Ku Klux Klan and dangers encountered, work with the Ecumenical Institute of Chicago and empowering black communities, the 1968 Chicago riots, Fifth City, and similar work in Australia and the Philippines.
Date:
January 2, 2017
Creator:
Czap, Joseph; Holcombe, George & Holcombe, Wanda
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Gloria Jeanne Wyatt, February 27, 2014
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Transcript of an interview with educator Gloria Jeanne Wyatt for the DFW Oral History Project. Wyatt discusses her childhood in Dallas; realization of color differences and racism; desegregation of schools; continuation of racism into late twentieth century; racial tensions; competitive roller skating; special education teaching in an inner-city school; challenges of an inter-racial marriage; education and career history; Dallas in the 1960s; changes in racial terminology; family history; future end of racial differences.
Date:
February 27, 2014
Creator:
Travis, Sarah & Wyatt, Gloria Jeanne, 1950-
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Hardy Haberman, April 15, 2012
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Transcript of an interview with Hardy Haberman, film producer, web designer, and longtime Dallas LGBT activist, for the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Haberman discusses his childhood in Dallas, Texas; coming out; LGBT Dallas history; LGBT activism; AIDS crisis in Dallas; current work in web design and marketing; current activism; Cathedral of Hope.
Date:
April 15, 2012
Creator:
Wisely, Karen & Haberman, Hardy, 1950-
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library