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[Minutes from the African American Advisory Committee Agenda for Education Policy and Strategy meeting] (open access)

[Minutes from the African American Advisory Committee Agenda for Education Policy and Strategy meeting]

Minutes for the African American Advisory Committee Agenda for Education Policy and Strategy meeting that was held on December 14, 2002.
Date: December 4, 2002
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Photocopy of news clipping: NAACP holds public meetings to explain school board protests] (open access)

[Photocopy of news clipping: NAACP holds public meetings to explain school board protests]

Photocopy of a newspaper clipping from The Dallas Morning News on April 1, 1997, "NAACP holds public meetings to explain school board protests." The news story is in regards to the NAACP having communication issues with the Dallas school board and their board meetings to discuss improvement to African-American children.
Date: April 1, 1997
Creator: The Dallas Morning News
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Eddie Mitchell Tasby vs. Dr. Linus Wright] (open access)

[Eddie Mitchell Tasby vs. Dr. Linus Wright]

A court document from Dallas, Texas after a hearing on July 23, 1982. Eddie Mitchell Tasby, et al. VS. Dr. Linus Wright, General Superintendent, DISD, et. al.
Date: July 23, 1982
Creator: District of Texas, Dallas Division
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Eddie Mitchell Tasby vs. Dr. Nolan Estes] (open access)

[Eddie Mitchell Tasby vs. Dr. Nolan Estes]

A court document from Dallas, Texas on the desegregation plan after a hearing on March 10, 1976. Eddie Mitchell Tasby, et al. VS. Dr. Nolan Estes, et. al.
Date: March 10, 1976
Creator: District of Texas, Dallas Division
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Booklet: Annie Webb Blanton of Denton for the thirteenth congressional district] (open access)

[Booklet: Annie Webb Blanton of Denton for the thirteenth congressional district]

Annie Webb Blanton (1870-1945) was an American suffragist, educator, and author of a series of grammar textbooks. Blanton was elected Superintendent of Texas Public Instruction in 1918, making her the first woman in Texas elected to statewide office. She was born in Houston and at 18 moved to Austin to attend classes at the University of Texas where she graduated in 1899 with a Bachelors of Literature. In 1901, Dr. Blanton began teaching English at North Texas Normal School in Denton, Texas where she remained for 17 years. The school is part of the now University of North Texas.
Date: 1922
Creator: Von Boeckman-Jones Co.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Lampasas County Courthouse in Lampasas, TX]

Photograph of Lampasas County Courthouse in Lampasas, TX. The courthouse sits at a corner next to two intersecting roads with parking spots lining the parts of the roads in front of the building's sidewalk. The only vehicle in the photo is a brown car sits parked on the right side of the intersection, facing the courthouse. At the corner of the sidewalk that encloses the courthouse is a streetlight and a telephone box. The small lawn surrounding the courthouse contains small bushes along the building's base and a few thin trees planted in front of the right side of the courthouse. The building is made of white stone bricks and has a white roof lined in red. Two rows of tall windows run across the width of the courthouse's walls. The windows on each row are grouped into pairs except for the ones on either side of the entrance to the courthouse, as they are in groups of three. The entrance is in the center of the left side of the building, set into a part of the building that projects outward a short distance from the wall. The front doors have two pilasters on either side of them and …
Date: April 8, 1972
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Lamar County Courthouse in Paris, TX]

Photograph of Lamar County Courthouse in Paris, TX. An intersection of dark paved roads occupies the bottom of the photo while a white car parks at the curb of a sidewalk running along the far side of the roads and around the edge of the courthouse. To the left of the sidewalk's corner is a yellow and red fire hydrant while to the right is a sign pointing to the right along with the text "One way". A person walks up the right half of the sidewalk towards the "One way" sign. The courthouse's yellow lawn is enclosed by a curb and is planted with short green bushes and two leafless trees that occupy the open corner of the lawn next to the sidewalk corner. In this part of the lawn, behind one of the trees, is a dark statue of a person standing on a tall white base with dark busts of other people above its bottom edge, one on each side of the base. Farther in the background, next to the second leafless tree, is a short stone slab with a dark rectangle, plus what may be an eagle motif, on its surface. The courthouse building itself is …
Date: February 1975
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Kenedy County Courthouse in Sarita, TX]

Photograph of Kenedy County Courthouse in Sarita, TX. The courthouse sits in an orange lawn with few plants other than a bush in the left side of the photo and two trees in the distance, towards the right edge. The building is rectangular in structure and has white walls spanned by three rows of windows set into faded orange frames. The front side of the building, which faces towards the right side of the photo, has glass front doors in faded frames like the windows with a short set of stairs in front of them. Four white columns set into the wall separate the center three columns of windows on the front side of the courthouse, with the front doors occupying the bottom of the center column of windows. The roof of the courthouse is flat and has a tall, thin metal structure rising from it with wires descending from its off-camera top. At the left corner of the courthouse a telephone pole rises up to the bottom of the third floor and has wires extending from its top in multiple directions. At the right edge of the courthouse, in the distance, a white house is visible.
Date: November 1966
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Kendall County Courthouse in Boerne, TX]

Photograph of Kendall County Courthouse in Boerne, TX. The courthouse sits on a green lawn facing a wet road that runs across the bottom of the photo. Three tall trees grow in the lawn, on either side of an in front of the courthouse. The building itself is made of splotchy orange stone bricks and has two wide octagonal towers at its front corners with a thin wall between them. The towers have slightly sloping roofs on their tops and two rows of windows across their sides. The wall between them has a white set of doors in its center, at the level of the second floor, which look out on a railed balcony. The balcony hangs over the white first-floor doors to the courthouse, which sit behind the three arches and four rectangular columns that support the balcony above. A short set of stairs lead from the building's front entrance to the lawn around it.
Date: September 1967
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Kaufman County Courthouse in Kaufman, TX]

Photograph of Kaufman County Courthouse in Kaufman, TX. The courthouse sits in front of a paved road which runs from the bottom left corner of the image to the right side, intersecting with a second road at the bottom of the photo. The corner of a sidewalk appears above the bottom right corner, occupied by a streetlight and a fire hydrant, as well as a short post reading "S Jackson" on its left side and "Nulserry" on its right. On the opposite side of the road, a sidewalk separates the pavement from the courthouse's lawn and is lined with parking meters. Growing in the lawn are small bushes and a few small trees, mostly planted around the three short white brick walls sitting in front of the courthouse's entrance. Two walkways run from the sidewalk, between the short walls, and up to the front doors of the courthouse, passing by a white statue on a tall rectangular base. The statue appears to be of a person holding a rifle while wearing a hat. The courthouse surrounds the statue as it consists of three tall rectangular sections, with one facing the sidewalk and sitting farther back while the other two are …
Date: February 27, 1972
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Jones County Courthouse in Anson, TX]

Photograph of Jones County Courthouse in Anson, TX. A road runs across the bottom of the image with one car emerging from the image's left side, passing by a stop sign, while a second car drives off towards the right side. On the far side of the road sits he courthouse, surrounded by green trees and bushes planted near the curb that encloses the building. The bottom level of the building is made of red blocks while the rest of the courthouse is made of orange bricks, with one row of windows across the red section and three rows across the orange section. The courthouse is rectangular in shape with sections that project outwards from the rest of the building centered on each of the courthouse's sides. Each of the projecting sections has a triangular pediment at its top along with red supporting columns. The front doors to the building are centered in the projecting section on the right side of the courthouse and have a short set of stairs leading up to them from the road. In the center of the building's flat roof is a clocktower made of orange bricks with white clockfaces on each of its sides. …
Date: July 1966
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Johnson County Courthouse in Cleburne, TX]

Photograph of Johnson County Courthouse in Cleburne, TX. A street runs alongside occupied parking spots in front of the courthouse's left side, meeting another street in the photo's bottom right corner which sits next to the right side of the courthouse. At the corner of the courthouse where the two streets meet is a streetlight on a pole, currently set to red. The streetlight stands on a concrete square with a sign at its left end, which reads "One way" with a right-pointing arrow. The concrete square connects to sidewalks that extend off along either side of the courthouse, passing by the bushes and trees that cluster around the corner of the courthouse. The building itself is rectangular in shape with a section on its left side that projects outward from the building a short distance. The courthouse is made of stone blocks along its base while the walls above are made of orange bricks accented in places by white stone. The stone base level of the building has one row of small windows while the level above the base has one row of similarly sized windows and sits at the same height as the front door, which is centered …
Date: October 1972
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Jasper County Courthouse in Jasper, TX]

Photograph of Jasper County Courthouse in Jasper, TX. A paved road runs across the foreground of the photo while a slightly blurry parking meters appears in the bottom left corner. In front of the sidewalk across the road, slanted white lines have been painted on the road to indicate parking spaces. A short set of stairs extend from the sidewalk to a concrete walkway that leads up to another short set of stairs, which sit in front of the courthouse's front door. On either side of the walkway is the courthouse's lawn, which is filled with fluffy green bushes and tall trees with equally expansive foliage, obscuring the ends of the courthouse. The building appears rectangular in is general shape and has smooth off-white walls, an upward-sloping roof covered with red shingles, and tall windows set into white frames. The front door of the building is dark green with a half-circle shaped top, set into the center section of the wall which has a triangular pediment above it at the roof's edge. On the pediment is the wire outline of a star. Across the visible wall of the courthouse are two rows of tall windows, all curved at the top …
Date: August 1970
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Jackson County Courthouse in Edna, TX]

Photograph of Jackson County Courthouse in Edna, TX. A green lawn fills the bottom half of the photo as a tall tree shades the bottom right corner of the image. Additional plants the form of bushes appear along the walls of the courthouse and extend outward in lines from its entrance. A walkway in the right side of the photo leads from the front doors of the courthouse to the right edge of the image, disappearing off-camera. A planter of short bushes sits next to the walkway, near the courthouse's entrance, while a nearby flagpole flies the American and Texas flags. The courthouse building is rectangular in its general shape, with a smaller rectangular section attached to the courthouse's right corner extending perpendicular to the main part of the building. The smaller section has two large windows at its left end and a row of small windows along its upper right corner. The main section of the courthouse has glass front doors at its center with a line of windows to the door's right shadowed by a long metal rectangular affixed to the wall above. The metal rectangle has a simple red clockface at its left end while a row …
Date: October 1970
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Hunt County Courthouse in Greenville, TX]

Photograph of Hunt County Courthouse in Greenville, TX. A parking lot occupies the photo's foreground with multiple vehicles sitting in the marked spots as one car drives through the lot from the right edge of the image. A sidewalk separates the lot from the yellow lawn of the courthouse, which is occupied by tall green trees and small bushes which line the base of the building. The courthouse faces towards the left edge of the photo and is made up by rectangular sections of varying heights, with the main part of the building having two shorter sections at its front on either side of the courthouse's entrance. Each of the shorter sections has two rows of windows, one just above the ground. The main section of the courthouse has two rows of large windows along its upper half and a row of tall columns across its center, where the front entrance is. The columns span the height of the section and sit at the top of a short set of stairs leading down to the courthouse's sidewalk. The center of the main part of the building has a small rectangular section above the building's entrance, which has one row of …
Date: February 1975
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Hopkins County Courthouse in Sulphur Springs, TX]

Photograph of Hopkins County Courthouse in Sulphur Springs, TX. The courthouse sits in the middle of brick roads, with cars driving past it in the left side of the foreground. One car drives in front of the courthouse towards the left, next to a sidewalk that sits around the base of the building. The courthouse is made of orange and red stone and is constructed as two intersecting rectangular sections with curving walls connecting the sections' edges. One rectangular section sits with its widest side facing the camera and while the other one, intersecting it, faces the camera with its thinner side. Both sections have four main rows of windows, the bottommost one consisting of small windows just above the ground. The wider section has a roof that slopes up to an edge, creating a triangular shape at its ends, while the thinner section has a triangular roof that slopes up to a point, with a small structure projecting out of the front side of the roof. The structure has three small windows on it and has a roof that slopes up to an edge like the roof of the wider section of the building. Small towers with cone-shaped roofs …
Date: February 1975
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Hood County Courthouse in Granbury, TX]

Photograph of Hood County Courthouse in Granbury, TX. A paved street wraps around the corner of the courthouse that faces the camera, with multiple vehicles sitting in front of the courthouse. A curb in the right side of the photo has a sign sitting on it reading "One way" with an arrow pointing left. A truck sits beyond the sign and faces he curb. The courthouse itself sit on a green lawn occupied by trees and bushes and has walls made of off-white stone bricks. The building is cubic in its general shape, with the corners and centers of each wall projecting out from the rest of the building slightly. The projecting sections each have triangles in the brown edges of their roofs, on each side of their sections. The roofs of the central projecting sections slope up to an edge while the corner sections slope up to points. The walls of the courthouse have three rows of windows across them except for the central sections, which have tall windows across the second and third floors and a row of small windows near the edges of the roof. On the central section on the right side of the building, a …
Date: October 1972
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Houston County Courthouse in Crockett, TX]

Photograph of Houston County Courthouse in Crockett, TX. The courthouse faces towards the left edge of the image and is surrounded by a circular sidewalk lined with parking meters. A paved road runs alongside the sidewalk with one car visible near the bottom left corner of the image, on the far side of the courthouse. The vehicle drives in front of a line of storefronts, one of which appears to be labeled "Perry's". The courthouse building, meanwhile, has multiple short bushes planted individually and in lines around its base. In the left side of the image, a set of stone stairs leads up to the front doors of the courthouse, decorated with potted plants placed at regular intervals on the walls lining the stairs. The courthouse is made of white stone blocks and consists of three rectangular sections set next to one another, with the central section being slighter taller than the other two. Across the central section of the courthouse are eight columns of window, four of which are grouped together over the front doors. The other two sections of the building have three columns of windows, with additional columns visible on the right side of the courthouse emerging …
Date: May 1968
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Leon County Courthouse in Centerville, TX]

Photograph of Leon County Courthouse in Centerville, TX. A road spans the bottom third of the photo, with a car driving through the image's bottom right corner. Between the road and the lawn of the courthouse is a parking lot occupied by numerous cars. Within the courthouse's lawn are multiple trees, telephone poles near the photo's left and right edges, and a person near the center of the image who seems to be walking alongside the parking lot. The courthouse itself is an orange brick building with two floors, multiple chimneys, and an upward sloping roof. The building has one rows of windows on each of its floors, all set into white frames. The building's entrance is flanked by pairs of white columns that support a white rectangular overhang. The courthouse sits near the left edge of the photo while a smaller red building occupies the space the courthouse's right. This red building has two floors adorned with windows, a white front door, and turreted towers at each corner.
Date: September 1968
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Yoakum County Courthouse in Plains, TX]

Photograph of Yoakum County Courthouse in Plains, TX. A paved, faded road divided by a double yellow line runs across the bottom edge of the image, its far side bordering the lawn of the courthouse. At the edge of the lawn, near the road, is a tree towards the left side of the photo as well as a fire hydrant and a streetlight towards the right side. Farther into the lawn, to the right of the streetlight, are two short blocks made of different materials and having small plaques set into them. Closer to the courthouse are sprinklers throwing water into the air, while green bushes and trees sit along the base of the building. A flagpole also sits in the middle of the lawn, flying the American flag. The courthouse faces the right side of the photo and is made up by multiple cubic sections which includes two shorter, medium-sized sections sitting on either side of a central section and two very short sections that are located on top of the medium sections. In the middle of the central section are doors with a short set of stairs leading up to them from the ground. Two rows of windows …
Date: July 1965
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Wood County Courthouse in Quitman, TX]

Photograph of Wood County Courthouse in Quitman, TX. A road fills the foreground of the photo with two white lines extending from the bottom left corner of the image to the edge of a sidewalk farther into scene. Two cars park in front of the courthouse at the edge of the sidewalk, which has an empty flagpole rising from its center. Small bushes line the bottom edge of the courthouse while tree branches emerge from the left and right sides of the photo. The courthouse is a flat-roofed, rectangular building made of red bricks with a short set of stairs leading from the sidewalk to the white doors of the building. A brick overhang supported by four brick columns provides shade for the doors and the windows on either side of them. Above the overhang sit four white columns spanning the second and third floors of the building in height, all supporting a triangular pediment with the outline of a circle in its center. A set of glass doors sit between the middle two column, leading into the second floor of the courthouse. Across the width of the building are three rows of windows, one for each floor of the …
Date: November 1975
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Willacy County Courthouse in Raymondville, TX]

Photograph of Willacy County Courthouse in Raymondville, TX. A green and yellow lawn fills the foreground of the photo while a sidewalk emerges from the photo's bottom left corner and leads to one side of the courthouse. The trees occupying the lawn have trunks seemingly painted white for a few feet of the trees' heights. The courthouse itself has a flat roof and is made of dark red bricks and is accented with white stone, sitting on the lawn with its longest side facing towards the left edge of the photo. An entrance in the form of a tall white arch is positioned in the center of the longer side of the building and has four columns rising across all three of the building's floor to support a rectangular pediment projecting out from the wall a short distance. The building has on both of its visible sides, a row of small windows along its bottom edge and three rows of taller windows across the remainder of the structure's width. White stone lines the bottom edge of the building and forms lines around the building, one running at the same height as the columns' bases while the other is positioned at …
Date: November 1966
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Wharton County in Wharton, TX]

Photograph of Wharton County in Wharton, TX. A green lawn occupied by large bushes and tall trees leads up from a sidewalk to the white walls of the courthouse, which faces towards the left edge of the image. The building has a short section a taller portion rising above it, both made of white concrete. The entrance to the courthouse is in the shorter section and appears in the left side of the photo with a small set of stairs leading up to its glass doors. "Wharton County Courthouse" is written above the entrance to the building, though the words in the photo are reversed. A row of short windows along the ground and a row of taller windows both span the width of the building. The roof of both the shorter and taller sections of the courthouse have flats roofs. The taller section also has two rows of tall windows across its width as well as a clockface above the two central set of windows in its front wall.
Date: October 1970
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library

[Ward County Courthouse in Monahans, TX]

Photograph of Ward County Courthouse in Monahans, TX. The courthouse faces towards the right edge of the photo as a sidewalk separates the building's lawn from the paved road running from the left edge of the photo to the bottom right corner. A section of the sidewalk near the center of the photo curves outwards to accommodate a patch of yellow and brown shrubs, next to which is a small brown box with a red top labeled "US mail". Behind the shrubs it a stone block with and upward-slanting top and indistinguishable writing, positioned to the right and in front of a taller stone slab with writing placed within a shield shape on the slab's surface. Throughout the lawn of the courthouse are small brown bushes and green trees, planted at the edge of the sidewalk and the bottom of the courthouse's walls. The building itself is made of stone white blocks accented with gray stone blocks, constructed in a mostly cubic shape with two rectangular sections projecting outwards at the front of the building. The sides of the building connected to these projecting sections rise to a lower height than the main part of the building. The shorter sections …
Date: January 1971
Creator: unknown
Object Type: Photograph
System: The UNT Digital Library