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Civilian Conservation Corps History Oral History Project
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World War II Pacific Theater (Submarine Service) Oral History Project
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Green Pioneers in North Texas
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Texas Community History Oral History Project
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Texas Musicians Oral History Project
2
UNT and TWU Library and Library School History Oral History Project
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World War II Pearl Harbor Survivors (Navy) Oral History Project
2
Chicano Political Activists Oral History Project
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DFW Immigration Oral History Project
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Dallas DREAMers Oral History Project
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Oral History Interview with Salvador Espino, September 26, 2007
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Interview with Fort Worth city councilman Salvador Espino as part of the North Texas Immigrant Rights Movement Oral History Project. The interview includes Espino's personal experiences about childhood and education, having a career a computer consultant, accountant, and attorney, volunteering for Catholic Diocese, and running for a seat representing District Two on the Fort Worth City Council. Espino also discusses the district demographics and priorities, the creation of Latinos Unidos, and his involvement in Fort Worth's 2006 immigrant rights march. The interview also includes an appendix with an article written by Espino.
Date:
September 26, 2007
Creator:
Moye, Todd & Espino, Salvador
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Eddie Griffin, January 31, 2014
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Interview with Eddie Griffin, an African-American historian and activist from Fort Worth, Texas. Griffin discusses his family origins, growing up in segregated Fort Worth, the Fort Worth economy and discrimination, white neighborhoods, attending I. M. Terrell High School, black newspapers and histories, JFK's visit, attending Arlington State College, being drafted into the Army and stationed in Germany, becoming a revolutionary, robbing a series of banks, being incarcerated, activism in prison and political prisoners, returning to civilian life, the rediscovery of his faith, and his career as a local historian. In appendix are several photographs of Griffin and his family, and selections of literature featuring Griffin.
Date:
January 31, 2014
Creator:
Moye, Todd & Griffin, Eddie
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Steve Wingo, February 25, 1993
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Interview with Steve Wingo from Weatherford, Texas concerning his experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Wingo worked at camps in Fort Worth, Texas (Company 1816) and Lubbock, Texas (Company 3820).
Date:
February 25, 1993
Creator:
O'Day, Buckley & Wingo, Steve
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Lloyd Wood, February 24, 1993
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Interview with Lloyd Wood, a member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Valera, Texas. Wood discusses his family background, joining the CCC and assignment to Cache, Oklahoma, the layout of the camp, daily routine, projects, fights, recreation and entertainment, his fellow men and superiors, transfer to a camp at Roswell, New Mexico, sports and athletics, pay, ethnic relations in camp, and the National Association of CCC Alumni.
Date:
February 24, 1993
Creator:
O'Day, Buckley & Wood, Lloyd
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Columbus Savage, October 22, 1995
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Interview with Columbus Savage concerning his experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Savage was assigned by the Army Reserves to work as a junior officer of the mess hall at a camp in Greer, South Carolina (Company 441).
Date:
October 22, 1995
Creator:
Pearcy, Matthew T. & Savage, Columbus
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Oral History Interview with Claude L. Hendon, March 6, 1994
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Interview with Claude L. Hendon regarding his experiences while employed by the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression.
Date:
March 6, 1994
Creator:
Pickard, Kelli & Hendon, Claude L.
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Warren B. Turkett, Sr., October 13, 1993
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Interview with Warren Turkett, Sr. concerning his experiences before, during, and after his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Turkett worked at camps in Rodman, South Carolina (Company 1417); Lancaster, South Carolina (Company 1417); and Fort Jackson, South Carolina.
Date:
October 13, 1993
Creator:
Pierce, Jeffrey & Turkett, Warren B., Sr.
Object Type:
Text
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Oral History Interview with Chester E. Hudson, October 12, 1993
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Interview with Chester Hudson concerning his experiences before, during, and after his employment in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the Great Depression. Hudson worked at camps in Calico Rock, Arkansas (Company 4747); Walcott, Arkansas (Company 3799); and Ozone, Arkansas (Company 1708). Includes an appendix.
Date:
October 12, 1993
Creator:
Polatti, Gaylon & Hudson, Chester E.
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Oral History Interview with Anna Robinson, November 27, 2007
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Interview with Anna Robinson, a Women's Army Corps veteran from Fort Worth, Texas. Robinson discusses her family and childhood, joining the WAC, transfer to Germany as a supply clerk in 1946, life and work in that assignment, being in a car wreck, her sexuality and gays in the service, the Iraq War and George W. Bush, leaving the Army and work for the city of Forth Worth as an artist, her church involvement, and returning to Germany,
Date:
November 27, 2007
Creator:
Quick, Janice L. & Robinson, Anna
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Ken Coffelt, July 15, 1990
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Interview with Ken Coffelt, an employee at the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine from Arlington, Texas. Coffelt discusses joining TCOM in 1973, the different managers and employees there at the time, the atmosphere of the college administration, morale, and moves within and from the College.
Date:
July 15, 1990
Creator:
Rafes, Richard & Coffelt, Ken
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Raymond E. "Tex" Roberts, 1990
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Interviews with Tex Roberts, executive director of the Texas Osteopathic Medical Association from Fort Worth, Texas. Roberts discusses his early career in journalism, joining TOMA, his duties as executive director, issues with the California Medical Association and Texas Medical Association, work with the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine and establishing a school, related Texas state legislation, various figures he worked with, and the Medical Practice Act.
Date:
June 20, 1990
Creator:
Rafes, Richard & Roberts, Raymond E. (Tex)
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Charlie Rodriguez, March 5, 2003
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Interview with Charlie Rodriguez, businessman and musician, concerning his recollections concerning the development of the Northside (Fort Worth, Texas) Hispanic community, his music career, and the evolution of his family's Mexican foods business.
Date:
March 5, 2003
Creator:
Ray, Dulce Ivette & Rodriguez, Charlie
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Inga Pennock, January 27, 1990
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Interview with Inga Pennock, a Holocaust survivor from Berlin. Pennock discusses her family background, experiencing antisemitism and the start of Nazi rule, trying to leave Germany and hiding, increasing violence, Kristallnacht, losing family, fleeing to Shanghai, Japanese occupation and the ghetto, working as a nurse for the Japanese, living conditions, liberation, and life afterwards.
Date:
January 27, 1990
Creator:
Rosen, Keith G. & Pennock, Inga
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Harry Brand, September 28, 1996
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Interview with Steve Pickens, a businessman and former President of the Nocona Boot Company, concerning his experiences as a financial analyst for Justin Industries, comptroller for Nocona Boot Company from 1983 to 1984, general manager of Nocona from 1984 to 1987, and President of Nocona from 1987 to 1995. Pickens comments on Nocona's founder, Enid Justin; the "Urban Cowboy" craze and plant expansion in 1981; the reorganization of the boot manufacturing process; marketing and advertising strategies and the "Hero Series" posters; on-the-job training of plant executives; employer-employee relations; wages and benefits; the western wear sales downturn in 1993; layoffs; the diversification of the product line; the creation of the "show boot;" and his termination as President in 1995.
Date:
September 28, 1996
Creator:
Rouh, Peggy & Brand, Harry B.
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Text
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Jessie Surratt, October 28, 1994
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Interview with Jessie Surratt about her recollections of women's lives in Texarkana, Texas during the Progressive Era. Surratt discusses the business community during her childhood, "Swampoodle" and speakeasies and prostitution, folk medicines, funeral practices, her education, her stay at Fort Worth Masonic Home, memories of her parents, church activities, her mother's membership in Maccabees, gender roles, child-rearing, and holiday customs.
Date:
October 28, 1994
Creator:
Rowe, Beverly & Surratt, Jessie Marie Perkinson
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Seth Bailey, December 12, 2007
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Interview with Seth Bailey, veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom, as part of the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. The interview includes Bailey's personal experiences of childhood and education in Athens, Texas, enlisting in the U.S. Army, basic training at Ft. Benning, Georgia, including experiences in Ranger Indoctrination Program and injuries sustained in "jump school," as well as his combat experiences in Karbala, Ramadi, and Al Asad. Bailey also talks about his family's tradition of military service, his assignment to a unit in Darmstadt, Germany, his deployment to Iraq and performance of long-range surveillance missions, continuing struggles with injury from basic training, with the Army health care system, and with substance abuse. Additionally, Bailey discusses his treatment at the Walter Reed Army Hospital, being discharged from the Army, returning to Arlington, Texas, and gives his opinions regarding the benefits of military service and regarding women in the military.
Date:
December 12, 2007
Creator:
Russell, Amy & Bailey, Seth
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with William Ripp, November 17, 2013
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Audio log for a recording of an interview with William Ripp, former dispatch shift manager for Braniff International Airways, conducted for the Flying Voices oral history project. In the interview Ripp shares experiences and anecdotes of his time as a flight dispatcher, remembering the bankruptcy of Braniff in 1982, life adjustments after Braniff, and overall impact of his career with Braniff.
Date:
November 17, 2013
Creator:
Schnur, Abra & Ripp, William
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Text
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Fort Worth Characters
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Fort Worth history is far more than the handful of familiar names that every true-blue Fort Worther hears growing up: leaders such as Amon Carter, B. B. Paddock, J. Frank Norris, and William McDonald. Their names are indexed in the history books for ready reference. But the drama that is Fort Worth history contains other, less famous characters who played important roles, like Judge James Swayne, Madam Mary Porter, and Marshal Sam Farmer: well known enough in their day but since forgotten. Others, like Al Hayne, lived their lives in the shadows until one, spectacular moment of heroism. Then there are the lawmen, Jim Courtright, Jeff Daggett, and Thomas Finch. They wore badges, but did not always represent the best of law and order. These seven plus five others are gathered together between the covers of this book. Each has a story that deserves to be told. If they did not all make history, they certainly lived in historic times. The jury is still out on whether they shaped their times or merely reflected those times. Either way, their stories add new perspectives to the familiar Fort Worth story, revealing how the law worked in the old days and what …
Date:
October 15, 2009
Creator:
Selcer, Richard F.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Fort Worth Stories
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Fort Worth Stories is a collection of thirty-two bite-sized chapters of the city’s history. Did you know that the same day Fort Worth was mourning the death of beloved African American “Gooseneck Bill” McDonald, Dallas was experiencing a series of bombings in black neighborhoods? Or that Fort Worth almost got the largest statue to Robert E. Lee ever put up anywhere, sculpted by the same massive talent that created Mount Rushmore? Or that Fort Worth was once the candy-making capital of the Southwest and gave Hershey, Pennsylvania, a good run for its money as the sweet spot of the nation? A remarkable number of national figures have made a splash in Fort Worth, including Theodore Roosevelt while he was President; Vernon Castle, the Dance King; Dr. H.H. Holmes, America’s first serial killer; Harry Houdini, the escape artist; and Texas Guinan, star of the vaudeville stage and the big screen. Fort Worth Stories is illustrated with 50 photographs and drawings, many of them never before published. This collection of stories will appeal to all who appreciate the Cowtown city.
Date:
February 2021
Creator:
Selcer, Richard F.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
A History of Fort Worth in Black & White 165 Years of African-American Life
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A History of Fort Worth in Black & White fills a long-empty niche on the Fort Worth bookshelf: a scholarly history of the city's black community that starts at the beginning with Ripley Arnold and the early settlers, and comes down to today with our current battles over education, housing, and representation in city affairs. The book's sidebars on some noted and some not-so-noted African Americans make it appealing as a school text as well as a book for the general reader. Using a wealth of primary sources, Richard Selcer dispels several enduring myths, for instance the mistaken belief that Camp Bowie trained only white soldiers, and the spurious claim that Fort Worth managed to avoid the racial violence that plagued other American cities in the twentieth century. Selcer arrives at some surprisingly frank conclusions that will challenge current politically correct notions. "Selcer does a great job of exploring little-known history about the military, education, sports and even some social life and organizations."--Bob Ray Sanders, author of Calvin Littlejohn: Portrait of a Community in Black and White.
Date:
November 2015
Creator:
Selcer, Richard F.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Written in Blood: the History of Fort Worth's Fallen Lawmen
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In 2010 Written in Blood: The History of Fort Worth’s Fallen Lawmen, Volume 1, told the stories of thirteen Fort Worth law officers who died in the line of duty between 1861 and 1909. Now Richard F. Selcer and Kevin S. Foster are back with Volume 2 covering another baker’s dozen line-of-duty deaths that occurred between 1910 and 1928. Not counting the two officers who died of natural causes, these are more tales of murder, mayhem, and dirty work from all branches of local law enforcement: police, sheriff’s deputies, constables, and special officers, just like in Volume 1. This era was, if anything, bloodier than the preceding era of the first volume. Fort Worth experienced a race riot, two lynchings, and martial law imposed by the U.S. Army while Camp Bowie was operating. Bushwhacking (such as happened to Peter Howard in 1915) and assassinations (such as happened to Jeff Couch in 1920) replaced blood feuds and old-fashioned shootouts as leading causes of death among lawmen. Violence was not confined to the streets either; a Police Commissioner was gunned down in his city hall office in 1917. Even the new category of “vehicular homicide” claimed a lawman’s life.
Date:
October 15, 2011
Creator:
Selcer, Richard F. & Foster, Kevin S.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interviews with Hazel Harvey Peace, 2003-2004
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Interview with Hazel Harvey Peace, a teacher and civil rights activist from Fort Worth, Texas, who was instrumental in expanding education for black citizens of the area. Peace discusses her parents, her education, becoming a teacher, working at various institutions over her life, books and entertainment growing up, her roll as a mentor, Fort Worth neighborhoods and the black communities, contemporary problems with integration and racism, admired leaders, her plays, her faith, and more.
Date:
2003-02-20/2004-03-28
Creator:
Sprecht-Kelly, Melody & Harvey-Peace, Hazel
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Mary Dickinson, June 25, 2019
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Transcript of an interview with designer Mary Dickinson discussing her education and influences that caused her to get involved with sustainable design projects, particularly around sourcing non-toxic materials and complying with LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) standards.
Date:
June 25, 2019
Creator:
Stark, Johnnie & Dickinson, Mary J.
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Mitzi Mills, March 7, 2019
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Transcript of an interview with Mitzi Mills, a co-founder of Anzea Textiles in Fort Worth, discussing the fabric and design industry, the goals of the company, and the ways that they focused on natural and recycled fibers, as well as other sustainable practices.
Date:
March 7, 2019
Creator:
Stark, Johnnie & Mills, Mitzi Tade
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library