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Oral History Interview with Howard Garrett, August 22, 2019

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Transcript of an interview with Howard Garret discussing his education and practice as a landscape architect and arborist, as well as his community engagement around organic gardening and soil health.
Date: August 22, 2019
Creator: Stark, Johnnie & Garrett, Howard
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3463, Chapter 892 (open access)

86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3463, Chapter 892

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to authority of the Lubbock County Hospital District of Lubbock County, Texas, to employ physicians.
Date: June 10, 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3780, Chapter 913 (open access)

86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, House Bill 3780, Chapter 913

Bill introduced by the Texas House of Representatives relating to the designation of Farm-to-Market Road 41 in Lubbock County as the David Nelson Memorial Highway.
Date: June 10, 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislature. House of Representatives.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 575, Chapter 522 (open access)

86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 575, Chapter 522

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the designation of a portion of U.S. Highway 84 in Lubbock County as the Trooper Jerry Don Davis Memorial Highway.
Date: June 7, 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 2448, Chapter 454 (open access)

86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 2448, Chapter 454

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the creation and operations of a health care provider participation program by the Lubbock County Hospital District of Lubbock County, Texas.
Date: June 4, 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 319, Chapter 34 (open access)

86th Texas Legislature, Regular Session, Senate Bill 319, Chapter 34

Bill introduced by the Texas Senate relating to the authority of the Lubbock County Hospital District of Lubbock County, Texas, to employ and commission peace officers.
Date: May 14, 2019
Creator: Texas. Legislature. Senate.
Object Type: Legislative Document
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalog of Texas Tech University: 2019-2020, Undergraduate and Graduate (open access)

Catalog of Texas Tech University: 2019-2020, Undergraduate and Graduate

Catalog of undergraduate and graduate courses offered by Texas Tech University for the year 2019-2020, as well as general information about the university, programs, and policies.
Date: May 2019
Creator: Texas Tech University
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Conservation Connect, Number 5, Fall 2018 (open access)

Conservation Connect, Number 5, Fall 2018

Annual magazine published by the High Plains Water District, discussing issues related to water usage and "highlight[ing] stories about water conservation practices and the people across the district that implemented them."
Date: Autumn 2018
Creator: High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 (Tex.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalog of Texas Tech University, 2018-2019, Undergraduate and Graduate (open access)

Catalog of Texas Tech University, 2018-2019, Undergraduate and Graduate

Catalog of undergraduate and graduate courses offered by Texas Tech University for the year 2018-2019, as well as general information about the university, programs, and policies.
Date: May 2018
Creator: Texas Tech University
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Conservation Connect, Number 4, Fall 2017 (open access)

Conservation Connect, Number 4, Fall 2017

Annual magazine published by the High Plains Water District, discussing issues related to water usage and "highlight[ing] stories about water conservation practices and the people across the district that implemented them."
Date: Autumn 2017
Creator: High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 (Tex.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalog of Texas Tech University, 2017-2018, Undergraduate and Graduate (open access)

Catalog of Texas Tech University, 2017-2018, Undergraduate and Graduate

Catalog of undergraduate and graduate courses offered by Texas Tech University for the year 2017-2018, as well as general information about the university, programs, and policies.
Date: May 2017
Creator: Texas Tech University
Object Type: Book
System: The Portal to Texas History
Features and Fillers: Texas Journalists on Texas Folklore (open access)

Features and Fillers: Texas Journalists on Texas Folklore

Collection of popular folklore of Texas, including information about animals, folk music, weather lore, folk beliefs, legends, folk medicine, poetry and other folktales. The index begins on page 229.
Date: 2017
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Hoein' the Short Rows (open access)

Hoein' the Short Rows

Volume of Texas folklore, including folk arts and crafts, lime production, oil and petroleum, information about cockfighting, folk poetry, mysticism and other stories. The index begins on page 231.
Date: 2017
Creator: Texas Folklore Society
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Texas and Southwestern Lore (open access)

Texas and Southwestern Lore

Collection of popular folklore from Texas and the Southwest, including ballads, cowboy songs, Native American myths, superstitions and other miscellaneous folk tales. It also contains the proceedings of the Texas Folklore Society. The index begins on page 243.
Date: 2017
Creator: Dobie, J. Frank (James Frank), 1888-1964
Object Type: Book
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conservation Connect, Number 3, Fall 2016 (open access)

Conservation Connect, Number 3, Fall 2016

Annual magazine published by the High Plains Water District, discussing issues related to water usage and "highlight[ing] stories about water conservation practices and the people across the district that implemented them."
Date: Autumn 2016
Creator: High Plains Underground Water Conservation District No. 1 (Tex.)
Object Type: Journal/Magazine/Newsletter
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Gilbert Herrera, July 1, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Gilbert Herrera, July 1, 2016

Gilbert Herrera was born in Lubbock, Texas. His father, a police officer, died on duty. Herrera was raised by a single mother. Having few economic opportunities, as a child he would break into homes to find food. As a teenager, Herrera joined a gang and eventually was jailed or imprisoned three times. He left prison a final time days before his mother died of cancer. During the early 1970s, Herrera began to lead and grow the West Texas Brown Berets. He organized several marches against police brutality and other social causes, including marches alongside African Americans, in and outside of Lubbock. Herrera is now a Baptist minister and leads a political action group in Lubbock named La Fuerza.
Date: July 1, 2016
Creator: Zapata, Joel & Herrera, Gilbert
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Sheila Patterson Harris and Rose Wilson, July 1, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Sheila Patterson Harris and Rose Wilson, July 1, 2016

Rose Wilson was born outside of Waco and moved to Lubbock as a young married adult. She raised her children in the city. Wilson became the first African American women to become president of Lubbock’s NAACP—when she was working as a maid. Because of her work sector, she faced pushback by some community economic elites. Sheila Patterson-Harris was born and raised in Lubbock, Texas. Her father is T.J. Patterson-Harris, the first African American City Representative of Lubbock, Texas. She attended school at the University of North Texas Denton, Texas. After graduating from university, Patterson-Harris moved back to Lubbock and worked in the radio industry but transferred over to working as a probation officer for twenty-nine years. She won the city representative seat her father once had in 2016.
Date: July 1, 2016
Creator: Harris, Sheila Patterson; Wilson, Rose & Wisely, Karen
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Billie Caviel, June 30, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Billie Caviel, June 30, 2016

Billie Caviel was raised in East Texas, attending all African American Schools. She attended university and pharmacy school at Texas Southern University in Houston. Once graduating, Caviel and her husband, who was also a pharmacist, moved to Lubbock, Texas to work for a Jewish pharmacist because no one else would give them jobs in the state because they were African American. Caviel and her husband later founded their own pharmacy, which they kept open for forty-nine years. Caviel also served as a Lubbock ISD school board member for a number of years during the early 1990s.
Date: June 30, 2016
Creator: Caviel, Billie & Wisely, Karen
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Victor Hernandez, June 30, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Victor Hernandez, June 30, 2016

Victor Hernandez was born in the Chamizal area of El Paso, Texas. Once the area was bought by the federal government to build the Chamizal National Monument, his family moved the the Lower Valley of El Paso, Texas. While in high school, he was part of the ROTC. Hernandez was salsa part of the ROTC at the University of Texas at El Paso, where he graduated from. Hernandez then went to law school at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. He stayed in Lubbock and served in the National Guard—with which he served in Operation Desert Storm. Upon his return to Lubbock, Hernandez practiced law and ran for City Council. Hernandez served several terms as a city council member and ran for mayor in 2016, a race he lost.
Date: June 30, 2016
Creator: Wisely, Karen; Zapata, Joel & Hernandez, Victor
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Esther Sepeda, June 29, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Esther Sepeda, June 29, 2016

Esther Sepeda was born in Buda, Texas and was raised in both Knott, Texas and Hale Center, Texas. She married while in school and left school, living and beginning a family in Hale Center. Afterwords, her family moved to Abernathy, Texas. In Abernathy, Sepeda began working within community services. While in the town, Sepeda and her husband began a building business and eventually moved to Lubbock for that business. In Lubbock, she served as the award winning president of Comerciantes Organizados Mexico-Americanos (COMA) and a founder member of the Hispanic Association of Women.
Date: June 29, 2016
Creator: Wisely, Karen; Zapata, Joel & Sepeda, Esther
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Floyd Price, June 29, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Floyd Price, June 29, 2016

Floyd Price was born in Lubbock and grew up in a near by town. Floyd graduated from Dunbar High School in 1959. He received a Bachelors of Science degree in Criminal Justice and Sociology from Wayland Baptist University in 1976. Floyd is a retired veteran of the Lubbock Police Department where he served for 33 years. He also served in the U.S. Army. Currently he works part-time with the Lubbock County Sheriff's Department.Floyd has always been a public servant, and especially enjoys working with young people. He had the honor of speaking to United Youth Congress in 1989, 1993, and 1997. Floyd enjoys singing, teaching the Bible, and playing sports. He has received numerous awards in his lifetime, including Citizen of the Year in 1995 and 1996, Man of the Year in 1990, and Lubbock Avalanche-Journal Readers Choice Award for Best Law Officer in 1994, 1995, and 1996.Floyd has also served on many boards, including Retired Senior Volunteer Program, Consortium Committee for the Homeless, Hospice of Lubbock, and Texas Agricultural Extension Board. Currently, Floyd serves on the YWCA Cancer Survivorship Cancer Coalition Advisory Board and the South Plains Association of Governments Criminal Justice Advisory Committee.
Date: June 29, 2016
Creator: Wisely, Karen; Zapata, Joel & Price, Floyd
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Daniel Urbina Sanchez, June 28, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Daniel Urbina Sanchez, June 28, 2016

Daniel Urbina Sanchez grew up between Lubbock, Texas and Garden City, Kansas. Starting in 1968, Sanchez’s family moved permanently to Lubbock. He graduated from Lubbock High School and Texas Tech University. In the 2000, Sanchez began participating in such organizations as Las Fiestas Del Llano, which is an organization focused on celebrating Mexican national holidays. He is currently an oral historian for Texas Tech University’s Southwest Collection. At Texas Tech University, Sanchez became a leader of the Latino faculty and staff. Sanchez also founded Citizens United in Discourse Against Discrimination, CUIDAD, which led rallies within Lubbock and participated in protests in the Texas State Capitol as the legislature considered racists-anti immigration bills.
Date: June 28, 2016
Creator: Zapata, Joel & Sanchez, Daniel Urbina
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Neal Pearson, June 28, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Neal Pearson, June 28, 2016

Neal Pearson was raised in Florida and joined the military during the Korean war. After the war, he worked for the CIA and Department of State. Pearson attended Georgetown University as well as the University of Florida for his graduate degrees in foreign affairs and political science. He obtained his PhD from the University of Florida in political science with a focus on Latin America. He arrived at Texas Tech University in 1969 and belong to various civil rights organizations, including LULAC. Pearson also contacted the department of justice in regards to segregation within Lubbock public schools.
Date: June 28, 2016
Creator: Wisely, Karen; Zapata, Joel & Pearson, Neal
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Clyde James, June 27, 2016 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Clyde James, June 27, 2016

Clyde “Chico” James grew up in segregated 1940s and 1970s Lubbock. He later graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. He spent time in Mexico City and has lived between Lubbock and Mexico City for several decades. In Lubbock, James has been active in city politics and neighborhood associations. Specifically, James helped start an effort to save a Lubbock magnet school attended by Mexican Americans from destruction by a anti-Mexican school board.
Date: June 27, 2016
Creator: Wisely, Karen; Zapata, Joel & James, Clyde
Object Type: Video
System: The Portal to Texas History