Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about partly cloudy skies which are prevailing over much of Texas with some low overcast and fog being reported in the coastal areas.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a man and his wife charged in the murder of a barmaid.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a man and his wife charged in the murder of a barmaid.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Newspaper clipping with an article about Ruth Florey's and Clinnie Lovvorn's service with the WASP.

Audio recording of an interview with Johnnie Mae Carter, who was born in East Texas and grew up partly in College Station, Texas, Colorado, and Slaton, Texas. While living in Slaton, Carter was not allowed to attend the local high school because she is African American. Thus, she attended Dunbar High School in Lubbock, Texas. Her family later moved to Odessa, Texas. In Odessa, Carter attended Odessa College to become a nurse. She worked several years as a nurse and also volunteered and later worked for Planned Parenthood in Odessa.

Joann Davenport Littleton was born and raised in Crane, Texas. In Crane’s high school, Davenport Littleton became the first African American class president. Indeed, her mother was the first African American to graduate from the same high school. As a talented volleyball player, she received an academic scholarship to Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas. Davenport Littleton did not like the athletic structure she had to adhere to and left Angelo State University after a semester. She moved to Odessa and worked for the city as well as a privet company while joining the Ector County Democrats. In 1990, deeming south Odessa being underserved, Davenport Littleton ran for city council. She won with a majority ethnic Mexican electorate. In the city council she worked to bring development and city services to south Odessa as well as to clean the environmental problems of that city section.

Photograph of the rear of the Ector County Courthouse in Odessa. The roads are wet from a recent rain, and there are many cars parked in front of the building. A staircase under the overhang leads to the back entrance.

Photograph of the Ector County Courthouse in Odessa, Texas. The roads are wet from a recent rain, and there are many trees in front of the building.

Photograph of the Ector County Courthouse in Odessa, Texas. The roads are wet from a recent rain, and there are many trees obscuring the view of the building.