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Oral History Interview with Rula Walid Bibi, April 24, 2011
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Interview with Rula Walid Bibi, Palestinian-born immigrant to Plano, Texas, for the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. The interview includes Bibi's personal experience with discrimination of Palestinians in the Middle East, childhood in Kuwait City, education at the University of Kuwait and Midwestern State University, family experiences during the First Gulf War and circumstances surrounding her immigration to Texas in 1990, thoughts on religion, experiences as a single mother as well as experiences of living in Wichita Falls, Dallas, Richardson, Garland, and Plano. Bibi talks about her first impressions of the U.S., her career in medical technologies, her marriage to an American man and his conversion to Islam, her involvement with political organizations, and thoughts on American education and foreign policy.
Date:
April 24, 2011
Creator:
Abigail, R. Matthew & Bibi, Rula Walid
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Oral History Interview with Alessandro Buccilli, April 6, 2011
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Interview with Italian immigrant Alessandro Buccilli, Director of Marketing and Sales Administration for Peterbilt Motors Company, as part of the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. Buccilli discusses his family background in Rome, Italy, his education, employment in the U.S., the shifts in perceptions about Italy and the U.S., social responsibility, learning English, his perspectives on the importance of language and culture, raising American children, and his legacy. The interview also includes Buccilli's comparisons of opportunities, bureaucracy, culture, and national immigration debates in Italy and the U.S.
Date:
April 6, 2011
Creator:
Alexander, Matthew & Buccilli, Alessandro
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Atzhiri Acosta, November 7, 2015
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Interview with Atzhiri Acosta, a Mexican-American immigrant from Wichita Falls, Texas. Acosta discusses moving to Wichita Falls, Texas, his upbringing there and adjusting to American life, his first jobs, being an "illegal immigrant" and immigration rhetoric, his family, the DREAM Act, Donald Trump, his work, deportation, and Christmas traditions.
Date:
November 7, 2015
Creator:
Barber, Zach & Acosta, Atzhiri
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Josephine Bermejo, February 16, 2013
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Interview with Josephine Bermejo, first generation of Bermejo women, for the Mexican American Women's Educational Experience Oral History Project. The interview includes Bermejo's recollections of schooling in Minnesota and Iowa, learning in English schools, leaving school for family obligations, and getting a GED in Fort Worth, Texas. Bermejo also talks about children's education and her thoughts on the future of Mexican American education. It includes an appendix with the Bermejo family tree.
Date:
February 16, 2013
Creator:
Bravo, Francis & Bermejo, Josephine
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Ceclia Bermejo Hernandez, February 16, 2013
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Interview with Cecelia Hernandez, a Mexican-American resident of Fort Worth, Texas. Hernandez discusses her schooling, her family, thoughts on college and first generation students, becoming and being a parent, working at Fort Worth ISD, and encountering struggles as a Hispanic person and parent. In appendix is her family tree.
Date:
February 16, 2013
Creator:
Bravo, Francis & Bermejo-Hernandez, Cecelia
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Book
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Oral History Interview with Sally Bermejo Bravo, March 24, 2013
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Interview with Sally Bravo, second generation of Bermejo women, for the Mexican American Women's Educational Experience Oral History Project. The interview includes Bravo's recollections of schooling in Fort Worth, the scholastic structure of her home life, cultural expectations and limitations on education, and the meaning of high school graduation, as well as educational goals for children, the role in sending children to college, and the generational changes in educational goals. It includes an appendix with the Bermejo family tree.
Date:
March 24, 2013
Creator:
Bravo, Francis & Bravo, Sally Bermejo
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Nicole Deluna, March 17, 2013
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Interview with Nicole Deluna, third generation of Bermejo women, for the Mexican American Women's Educational Experience Oral History Project. The interview includes Deluna's personal experiences of schooling in Fort Worth, Texas, as well as the meaning of high school graduation, reasons for not attending college, a discussion of cultural expectations of Mexican American women, her daughter's educational plans, and the benefit of an education in the workplace. The interview includes an appendix with the Bermejo family tree.
Date:
March 17, 2013
Creator:
Bravo, Francis & Deluna, Nicole
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Dulcie Barnier Dreyspring, December 4, 2012
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Interview with Dulcie Barnier Dreyspring, Australian-born immigrant to Fort Worth, Texas, for the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. The interview includes Dreyspring's personal experiences of childhood in Australia, interactions with American soldiers during World War II, the Japanese invasion of Australia, her first visit to the U.S., first impressions of America, her first marriage to an American, and her return to Australia for the immigration process. It also includes her impressions of various American cities, views on American identity, her siblings in Australia, reasons for moving to Fort Worth, her second marriage to an American airman, adopting Texas culture, and advice for future immigrants.
Date:
December 4, 2012
Creator:
Bravo, Francis & Dreyspring, Dulcie Barnier
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Bruce Monroe, November 9, 2013
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Interview with Bruce Monroe from San Antonio, Texas. Monroe discusses attending Texas A&M, coming out, the gay scene in Houston and Florida, the start of the AIDS epidemic, living in Dallas and work with the Dallas Gay Alliance, becoming president of the DGA, changing its name, the Dallas Buyers Club, work in Washington DC, living with HIV, Dallas Way, and art.
Date:
November 9, 2013
Creator:
Bravo, Francis & Monroe, Bruce
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Robert Moore, October 26, 2013
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Interview with Robert Moore, a LGBT-focus journalist from Hurst, Texas. Moore discusses attending Texas Tech University, his career, working for Dallas Gay News and starting Dallas Voice, changes in attitudes toward LGBT people in Texas, HIV-AIDS, LGBT guilds and associations, and keeping up with changing media.
Date:
October 26, 2013
Creator:
Bravo, Francis & Moore, Robert Wade
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Linda Pina, April 8, 2013
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Interview with Linda Pina, a cousin of UNT interviewer Francis Bravo from Fort Worth, Texas, interviewed for for the Mexican American Women's Educational Experience project. Pina discusses growing up, school, her parents' divorce, and her own children and their education. In appendix is Bravo and Pina's family tree.
Date:
April 8, 2013
Creator:
Bravo, Francis & Pina, Linda
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Hui Sun, November 18, 2012
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Interview with Hui Sun, a Chinese-American immigrant from Ankang, Shaanxi, China. Hui Sun discusses her childhood, her marriage, coming to the United States, American and Chinese culture, her children, parenting, her local Chinese community, Chinese holidays, reflections on love and personal growth, and her service in the People's Liberation Army.
Date:
November 18, 2012
Creator:
Bravo, Francis & Sun, Hui
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Ada Fabiana Duque, October 20, 2012
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Interview with Ada Fabiana Duque, Colombian-born immigrant to Rockwall, Texas, for the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. The interview includes Duque's family background and the risks that accompanied being financially successful in Colombia during the Colombian civil war, the guerrilla violence in Colombia in the 1980s and 1990s, her experience as an exchange student to Illinois in 1992, her expectations about the U.S., education and employment in food engineering, the process of acquiring citizenship through political asylum, and her opinions about U.S. immigration policy and cultural assimilation, as well as reflections on American identity.
Date:
October 20, 2012
Creator:
Bundschuh, Molly & Duque, Ada Fabiana
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Antonio T. Chavez, October 11, 2013
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Interview with Antonio Chavez, a former UNT student from Sonora, Texas. Chavez discusses the desegregation of schools in Sonora, experiences in grade school and the disparity in quality between segregated schools, his father's grocery business, discrimination, majoring in elementary education, working in geophysics, attending North Texas State College, life in Denton and on campus, and raising his family.
Date:
October 11, 2013
Creator:
Bynum, Katherine E. & Chavez, Antonio T.
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Book
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Oral History Interview with Olive Stephens, June 12, 2014
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Interview with Olive Stephens of Clayton, Texas, mayor of Shady Shores, Texas, accompanied by her daughter Jean McBride. Stephens discusses growing up in Clayton, her family and moving to Shady Shores, making and selling ceramics, being elected to town council and mayor, and her subsequent work in city and county politics. In appendix is a summary of Stephens' career, and a quote of hers provided by her daughter.
Date:
June 12, 2014
Creator:
Carlisle, Tara & Stephens, Olive
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Foy Taylor, November 18, 2013
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Interview with Foy Taylor, a longtime resident of Denton, Texas, and donor of a antique log cabin to the Denton County Historical Commission. Taylor discusses his family background, education and career, his service in the Navy and witnessing atomic bomb tests, his family's farm in Denton, growing up in the area, prohibition and the Depression, and changes in the town over time.
Date:
December 3, 2014
Creator:
Carr, Barry & Taylor, Foy
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Howard Okon, November 7, 2013
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Interview with Howard Okon, a businessman and LGBT community activist from Dallas, Texas. Okon discusses founding the Dallas Tavern Guild, running gay bars in the 1970s, coming out, drug use, political allies, vandalism and raids, changes in patronage, the current state of Texas gay bars, the AIDS epidemic, the impact of social media on the scene, the Dallas dance hall ordinance, activism, and generational differences.
Date:
November 7, 2013
Creator:
Castillo, Vogel & Okon, Howard
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Mary Franklin, October 18, 2013
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Interview with Mary Franklin, an activist in the Dallas LGBT community from Riverhead, New York. Franklin discusses her family background, the neighborhood she grew up in in, dyslexia and struggles in school, her sexuality and coming out, the LGBT scene on Long Island, "gay" as a term, her first girlfriend, Anita Bryant, applying for a marriage license on National Coming Out Day, feminism and activism, moving to Dallas, the decriminalization of homosexuality in Texas, the HIV-AIDS epidemic, threats, involvement with the Unitarian Church, working at the Food Pantry, and changes in societal attitudes towards LGBT.
Date:
October 18, 2013
Creator:
Castillo, Vogel Vladimir & Franklin, Mary
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Bill King, April 26, 2018
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Interview with Dr. Bill King, a radiologist from Denton, Texas. King discusses his family background and upbringing, working for the Denton County Chronicle as a teenager, grade school, attending North Texas State College and becoming a doctor, the history of the Rotary Club, and his involvement in it.
Date:
April 26, 2018
Creator:
Chegwidden, Caitlin & King, Bill
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Shazia Ali, October 15, 2012
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Interview with Dr. Shazia Ali, a professor from Dallas, Texas. Ali discusses her life and career as a Pakistani-American, including her family origins, growing up in Karachi and Dubai, her education, her work for a newspaper, the slums of Karachi, meeting her husband, being married over the phone, emigrating to Dallas, employment at UT-Dallas, having children, attending Richland College, cultural effects of September 11th, getting a PhD, parenting, and navigating cultures.
Date:
October 15, 2012
Creator:
Cloer, Katherine & Ali, Shazia
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Pierina E. Mercado Beckman, April 19, 2011
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Interview with University of North Texas Professor Dr. Pierina E. Mercado Beckman, Mexican-born immigrant to Denton, Texas, for the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. The interview includes Beckman's personal experiences about childhood in Mexico City, relocating to the U.S., her decision to attend Graceland College in Lamoni, Iowa, her culture shock and homesickness, marriage to Curt Beckman, the decision to earn a Ph.D. in Spanish Literature from the University of Iowa, being hired at UNT, and her efforts to remain in touch with family members in Mexico.
Date:
April 19, 2011
Creator:
Clower, John & Beckman, Pierina E. Mercado
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Tanya Kiboko, October 11, 2011
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Interview with Tanya Kiboko, an immigrant to Texas from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kiboko discusses her education, her family, Congolese society, languages, learning English, culture shock, food, markets, attending Wiley College, her husband, differences in structure between Western and Congolese families, and reflections on life.
Date:
October 21, 2011
Creator:
Clower, John & Kiboko, Tanya
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Frtiz E. Schwalm
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Interview with Dritz Schwalm, a professor at the University of North Texas from Arolsen, Hesse. Schwalm discusses his family background, the county of Waldeck, his education, moving to the United States and working in academia, his parents' laundry business, the University of Marburg, working at Texas Women's University and the University of North Texas, German culture in the United States, shopping, the Goethe Institute, American politics, thoughts on citizenship, and radical leftists in Germany. In appendix are two pictures of Marburg discussed in the interview.
Date:
December 4, 2012
Creator:
Cox, Robert & Schwalm, Fritz E.
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Book
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The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with George and Wanda Holcombe, January 2, 2017
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Interview with George Holcombe, a Methodist pastor and civil rights activist from Houston, Texas, and his wife and associate Wanda, from Sims, Texas. The Holcombes discuss their family origins, initial exposure to racial problems and civil rights, their respective educations, pastoral work in Baton Rouge and Chicago, the Ku Klux Klan and dangers encountered, work with the Ecumenical Institute of Chicago and empowering black communities, the 1968 Chicago riots, Fifth City, and similar work in Australia and the Philippines.
Date:
January 2, 2017
Creator:
Czap, Joseph; Holcombe, George & Holcombe, Wanda
Object Type:
Book
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The UNT Digital Library