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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
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Kim Phillips, March 20, 2013

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Interview with Kim Phillips, vice-president of the Denton Conventions and Visitors Bureau from Longview, Texas. Phillips discusses her love of Denton, her childhood and education, the music scene, the sense of community,, the CVB's work, local history, Quakertown, the Chamber of Commerce, the black and Hispanic communities, and the Confederate memorial. In appendix is a picture of Denton County Courthouse and the County Confederate Memorial.
Date: March 20, 2013
Creator: Stallings, Chelsea & Phillips, Kim
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Joe Cole, January 20, 2004

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Interview with photojournalist and artist Joe Cole. The interview includes Cole's personal experiences about the Texas International Pop Festival. Cole talks about his parents' reaction to changes in the Sixties, his introduction to marijuana, his attraction to the music of the Beatles, his initial introduction to the Fort Worth hippie culture, his views towards the Vietnam war, obtaining an agricultural exemption from his local draft board, Sixties music and its message, his comments about the Chicago Transit Authority, Canned Heat, and Led Zeppelin, activities of the Hog Farm, drug usage at the festival, festival security personnel, "bad trip" tents, skinny-dipping in Lake Dallas, and the lasting influence of the festival on his life.
Date: January 20, 2004
Creator: Tittle, Dennis & Cole, Joe
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Mary Alice Reding, July 20, 2013

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Interview with Mary Alice Reding, a resident of Aubrey, Texas and a graduate of the University of North Texas, regarding her experiences growing up in Aubrey, schooling, her father J. M. Coffey, who was a representative in the Texas legislature, local businesses, other town residents, and residences.
Date: July 20, 2013
Creator: Goin, Deborah & Reding, Mary Alice
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Herbert Ferrill, July 20, 1983 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Herbert Ferrill, July 20, 1983

Interview with former assistant football coach at North Texas State College Herbert Ferrill from Denton, Texas. In the interview, Ferrill describes his experiences concerning the desegregation of athletics at North Texas State College in 1956.
Date: July 20, 1983
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E.; Cummings, Randy & Ferrill, Herbert
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Frank Klein, December 20, 1984 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Frank Klein, December 20, 1984

Interview with business executive and former member of the North Texas State football team Frank Klein from Denton, Texas. In the interview, Way recollects some of his experiences and thoughts while he was a student at the school during the desegregation of athletics.
Date: December 20, 1984
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E.; Cummings, Randy & Klein, Frank
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Jane Armstrong, August 20, 1987 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Jane Armstrong, August 20, 1987

Interview with homemaker Jane Armstrong. The interview includes Armstrong's personal experiences about life on the Scott Jacobs Farm in Denton County. Armstrong talks about the purchase of the land by her grandfather, implements and outbuildings found on the farm, oil income and farm improvements during the 1920s and 1930s, rural entertainment and leisure activities, crops and planting, food preservation, in-town shopping, making homebrew and bootlegging activities, schools and churches, cemeteries, epidemics, and folk medicines and remedies.
Date: August 20, 1987
Creator: Renner, Steve & Armstrong, Jane
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Jack B. Scroggs, September 20, 1973 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Jack B. Scroggs, September 20, 1973

Interview with Jack Scroggs, a history professor at NTSU and former member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Little Rock, Arkansas. Before a group of students, Scroggs discusses his time in the CCC in the 1930s, including: his family background and education; the effects of the Depression on his hometown and family; the introduction of New Deal programs; his memory of Fireside Chats; entry into the CCC and orientation; organization in the Corps and its administration by the Army; benefits of the Corps; quality of life in a CCC camp; and the projects worked. Included in appendix is Scrogg's certificate of proficiency for a CCC course in engineering.
Date: September 20, 1973
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Scroggs, Jack B.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Alma Clark, April 2017

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Audio log for a recording of an interview with Alma Clark regarding her experiences with the Denton Women's Interracial Fellowship. She discusses her childhood and background, living in a segregated neighborhood in Austin, interracial relationships, moving to Denton and Quakertown history, and her involvement with the Denton Women's Interracial Fellowship.
Date: April 20, 2017
Creator: Ceballos, Nathan & Clark, Alma
System: The UNT Digital Library