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
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Families Without Heat] (open access)

[News Script: Families Without Heat]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story describing 14 families who were left without heat or janitorial services during freezing temperatures.
Date: January 2, 1974, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Earthquake, missing plane, and Sandy Koufax] (open access)

[News Script: Earthquake, missing plane, and Sandy Koufax]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: January 2, 1969
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Photograph 2012.201.B0412B.0179]

Photograph used for a story in the Daily Oklahoman newspaper. Caption: "This week, chairmanship of the interstate oil compact commission passes from Gov. Johnston Murray of Oklahoma to Gov. William G. Stratton of Illinois, elected at a recent meeting in Chicago."
Date: January 2, 1955
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The Gateway to Oklahoma History
[Invoice for Balance Due to Schupp Florist Supply Company, January 1951] (open access)

[Invoice for Balance Due to Schupp Florist Supply Company, January 1951]

Invoice for items sold to Daniel W. Kempner by Schupp Florist Supply Co., including coil galvanized bench wire with balance due of $0.8.
Date: January 2, 1951
Creator: Schupp Florist Supply Company
Object Type: Text
System: The Portal to Texas History

[Letter from the American Florist Supply Co. to D. W. Kempner, January 2, 1951]

Letter from the American Florist Supply Co. to D. W. Kempner acknowledging his order of florist supplies.
Date: January 2, 1951
Creator: American Florist Supply Company
Object Type: Postcard
System: The Portal to Texas History