Oral History Interview with Charlotte Stokes, June 24, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Charlotte Stokes, June 24, 2016

Mrs. Stokes was born and raised in Nacogdoches. She is the daughter of Arthur Weaver, the founder of the NAACP in Nacogdoches. She then became a teacher in Washington DC and St. Louis. She returned to Nacogdoches in the late 1970s, where she worked at Head Start. Retired now, she is active in civic organizations, particularly the annual Juneteenth celebration. In her interview, Mrs. Stokes describes her childhood in Nacogdoches, the difficulties of segregation, her father's activism, and the community activism she's been involved in in Nacogdoches since her return in the 1970s.
Date: June 24, 2016
Creator: Howard, Jasmine; May, Meredith & Stokes, Charlotte
System: The Portal to Texas History
World's Longest History Lesson: Unit 4. The (Many) Failures of the Spaniards (ASL Interpretation) captions transcript

World's Longest History Lesson: Unit 4. The (Many) Failures of the Spaniards (ASL Interpretation)

American Sign Language interpretation of Dr. Torget's lecture on Spanish colonization in Texas, covering: (1) First Attempt of Missions, 1690-1693, (2) Second Attempt, 1716-1722, (3) Life on the Spanish Frontier, (4) Arrival of the Comanche, (5) Texas by 1800. Video contains picture-in-picture rendering of slides and original narration.
Date: 2018-08-24T11:08:18/2018-08-24T11:59:56
Creator: Torget, Andrew J.
System: The Portal to Texas History
World's Longest History Lesson: Unit 4. The (Many) Failures of the Spaniards captions transcript

World's Longest History Lesson: Unit 4. The (Many) Failures of the Spaniards

Video of Dr. Torget's lecture on Spanish colonization in Texas, covering: (1) First Attempt of Missions, 1690-1693, (2) Second Attempt, 1716-1722, (3) Life on the Spanish Frontier, (4) Arrival of the Comanche, (5) Texas by 1800.
Date: 2018-08-24T11:08:18/2018-08-24T11:59:56
Creator: Torget, Andrew J.
System: The Portal to Texas History