Faculty recital performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.

Guest artist recital performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.

Jazz faculty recital performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.

Guest artist recital performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.

Faculty recital performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.

Faculty recital performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.

Guest artist recital performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.

Faculty recital performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.

Guest artist recital performed at the UNT College of Music Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater.

Faculty concert performed at the UNT College of Music Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater.

Guest artist recital performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.

Faculty recital performed at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall.

Guest artist recital performed at the Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater.

"Cold Anger is an important book about the empowerment of working-class communities through church-based social activism. Such activism is certainly not new, but the conscious merger of community organizing tactics with religious beliefs may be. The organizing approach comes from Aul Alinsky and his Industrial Areas Foundations (IAF). . . . The book is structured around the political life of Ernesto Cortes, Jr., the lead IAF organizer who has earned recognition as one of the most powerful individuals in Texas (and who has been featured on Bill Moyers' "World of Ideas"). . . . Cortes fashioned a hard-ball Alinsky approach onto the natural organizing ground of church-based communities. The experiment began in San Antonio . . . and was successful in the transformation of San Antonio politics. Such dramatic success . . . led to similar efforts in Houston, Fort Worth, El Paso, the Rio Grande Valley, Phoenix, Los Angeles, and New York, to mention only a few sites. Expansion beyond San Antonio meant organizing among Protestant churches, among African American and white, and among middle-class communities. In short, these organizing efforts have transcended the particularistic limits of religion, ethnicity, and class while maintaining a church base and sense of …

A faculty recital performed at the UNT College of Music Recital Hall.

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.

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.

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.

Interview with William Schiff, a Holocaust survivor from Kraków, Poland. Schiff discusses his family, antisemitism before the war, the invasion of Poland, being put into forced labor by the Germans and Poles, the ghetto and survival there, getting married, experiences in internment at Kraków-Płaszów, Auschwitz, Gross-Rosen, and Buchenwald concentration camps, liberation, returning to Kraków and finding his wife, and life afterwards.

Interview with Robert Toulouse, Dean of the University of North Texas Graduate School from Denton, Texas. Toulouse discusses the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine and his involvement in the merger of the college with NTSU/UNT.

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.

Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Curtis Fuller on March 20, 1990 at 2:00PM at the UNT College of Music. It includes a lecture and performance by Curtis Fuller, trombone, interspersed with questions from the audience.

Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Clifford Jordan on April 10, 1990 at 9:30AM at the UNT College of Music. It includes a lecture and performance by Clifford Jordan, tenor saxophone, interspersed with questions from the audience.

Recording of a Jazz Lecture Series presentation by Dick Hyman on April 17, 1990 at 2:00PM at the UNT College of Music. It includes a lecture and performance by Dick Hyman, piano, interspersed with questions from the audience.