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The Role of the U.S. Mass Media in the Political Socialization of Nigerian Immigrants in the United States (open access)

The Role of the U.S. Mass Media in the Political Socialization of Nigerian Immigrants in the United States

A mail survey of Nigerian immigrants in Dallas, Texas, and Chicago, Illinois, was conducted during October and November 1995. Four hundred and sixty-eight Nigerian immigrant families in the two cities were selected by systematic sampling through the telephone books. Return rate was approximately 40% (187). The variables included in the study were media exposure variables, general demographics, immigration traits, U.S. demographics, Nigerian demographics, and political and cultural traits. New variables which had not been included in previous studies were also tested in this study: television talk shows, talk radio, diffuse support for the U.S. political system, authoritarianism, self-esteem, and political participation. This study employed multiple regression analysis and path analysis of the data. This study found that Nigerian immigrants have high preference for television news as their main source of political information. This finding is in consonance with previous studies. Nigerian immigrants chose ABC news stations as their number one news station for political information. Strong positive associations existed between media exposure and length of stay in the United States and interest in U.S. politics. Talk radio positively associated with interest in U.S. politics and negatively associated with length of stay in the United States. Thus, this finding likely means …
Date: August 1996
Creator: Okoro, Iheanyi Emmanuel
Object Type: Thesis or Dissertation
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Black Panthers] (open access)

[News Script: Black Panthers]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story. The story aired at 12pm.
Date: April 2, 1969, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Alger] (open access)

[News Script: Alger]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Democratic National Convention and a county Republican convention in Dallas, Texas.
Date: August 14, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Texas Delegation Strong for Lyndon] (open access)

[News Script: Texas Delegation Strong for Lyndon]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about a delegation being sent to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in order to support Senator Lyndon Johnson.
Date: August 12, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Displaced youth] (open access)

[News Script: Displaced youth]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: August 23, 1972, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: 6PM Sports] (open access)

[News Script: 6PM Sports]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story giving the daily sports highlights.
Date: August 18, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: 10PM sports] (open access)

[News Script: 10PM sports]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story highlighting the daily sports news.
Date: July 6, 1972, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: 10 PM sports] (open access)

[News Script: 10 PM sports]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: August 12, 1972, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: 6PM sports] (open access)

[News Script: 6PM sports]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story going over the daily sports highlights.
Date: July 27, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: 10PM sports] (open access)

[News Script: 10PM sports]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story going over the daily sports highlights.
Date: August 4, 1972, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: 10 PM sports] (open access)

[News Script: 10 PM sports]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: August 5, 1972, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: 6 & 10 PM sports] (open access)

[News Script: 6 & 10 PM sports]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about Cowboys training camp in California, the Rangers vs. Twins game, Mark Spitz new swimming record, the PGA golf championship, Elvin Hayes' new million dollar contract, and the the Texas High School all star game.
Date: August 2, 1972, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: 10 PM sports] (open access)

[News Script: 10 PM sports]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: July 27, 1972, 10:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
Apparatus for Chilling and Whitening Lard Compounds (open access)

Apparatus for Chilling and Whitening Lard Compounds

Patent for an apparatus for chilling and whitening lard compounds that produces stiffer lard.
Date: August 27, 1912
Creator: Humphreys, Jerome N.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Clipping: They also served] (open access)

[Clipping: They also served]

Newspaper clipping with photographs of former WASP, an article about their service in the military, and their recognition as veterans.
Date: March 22, 1987
Creator: David, Marjorie
Object Type: Clipping
System: The Portal to Texas History
[News Script: SMU] (open access)

[News Script: SMU]

Script from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the Southern Methodist University basketball team traveling to Chicago to play the San Francisco Dons team in a semifinals game.
Date: March 21, 1956
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Evening sports roundup] (open access)

[News Script: Evening sports roundup]

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.
Date: October 21, 1969, 6:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type: Script
System: The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Rena Pederson, April 5, 2012 (open access)

Oral History Interview with Rena Pederson, April 5, 2012

Interview with Rena Pederson, a former journalist in Dallas, Texas. The interview includes biographical information about her life growing up, her educational background, her career with The Dallas Morning News and other newspapers, the books she has written, and her work in communications and public affairs.
Date: April 5, 2012
Creator: Harding, Anne; Dann, Lori & Pederson, Rena
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Check-Punch. (open access)

Check-Punch.

Patent for a simple, inexpensive, and compact check-punch that can be operated by one hand and doesn't take much power to operate. The machine consists of two movable members, "one of which carries all of the male and the other all of the female dies, said members being so related that when moved relatively to each other in one direction all the male dies move as a single member...and enter the female dies, and when moved in the opposite direction all of said male dies are withdrawn" (lines 12-20).
Date: March 17, 1896
Creator: Woodworth, Charles H.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
Cotton-Seed Linter (open access)

Cotton-Seed Linter

Patent for an improvement "to prevent the accumulation of lint within the lint-chambers; to provide for the automatic discharge of the lint from the saw-teeth; to provide for a thorough agitation of the seed within the seed-reviews, and, finally, to provide for the delivery of the stripped seed from the machine" (lines 12-19).
Date: August 5, 1890
Creator: O'Brien, Edward J.
Object Type: Patent
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from John J. Herrera to Mr. and Mrs. Roberto Vasquez - 1963-05-30] (open access)

[Letter from John J. Herrera to Mr. and Mrs. Roberto Vasquez - 1963-05-30]

Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Roberto Vasquez, typed and dated May 30, 1963. The letter discusses the convention of the League of United Latin American Citizens.
Date: May 30, 1963
Creator: Herrera, John J.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Envelope from Mr. and Mrs. Roberto Vasquez to Mr. and Mrs. John J. Herrera - 1962-12-22] (open access)

[Envelope from Mr. and Mrs. Roberto Vasquez to Mr. and Mrs. John J. Herrera - 1962-12-22]

Envelope from Mr. and Mrs. Roberto Vasquez addressed to Mr. and Mrs. John J. Herrera and postmarked in Crown Point, Indiana, on December 22, 1962.
Date: December 22, 1962
Creator: Vasquez, Roberto & Vasquez, Ann
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Marcus Lujan to John J. Herrera - 1964-11-21] (open access)

[Letter from Marcus Lujan to John J. Herrera - 1964-11-21]

Letter from Marcus Lujan to John J. Herrera, dated November 21, 1964, regarding the suspension of the Charter of LULAC Council Number 300 in Chicago.
Date: November 21, 1964
Creator: Lujan, Marcus
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History
[Letter from Frank M. Valdez to John J. Herrera - 1964-12-10] (open access)

[Letter from Frank M. Valdez to John J. Herrera - 1964-12-10]

Letter from Frank M. Valdez to John J. Herrera, dated December 10, 1964, regarding the suspension of the Charter of Council Number 300 of Chicago, Illinois and seeking legal advice concerning the matter.
Date: December 10, 1964
Creator: Valdez, Frank M.
Object Type: Letter
System: The Portal to Texas History