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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.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Eliot Coleman, October 10, 2013

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Interview with Eliot Coleman, an organic farmer and homesteader from Rumson, New Jersey. Coleman discusses his childhood, college experience, work at Franconcia College, befriending Scott and Helen Nearing and purchasing a stead from them, thoughts on government, counterculture, good methods for organic farming, local ecology and maintaining ecosystems, his marriages, different farms worked, stories about the Nearings, and thoughts on his way of life.
Date: October 10, 2013
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A. & Coleman, Eliot
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Jeanne Gaudette, October 10, 2013

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Interview with Jeanne Gaudette, a yogini from Lynn, Massachusetts. Gaudette discusses growing up, discovering a love of nature, astrology and spiritualism, meditation, considering a monastic vocation as a teenager and quitting religion, thoughts on her family's struggles, her marriage and divorce, having a son, becoming a Ayurvedic yogini, reading charts, planetary energy, Scott and Helen Nearing, dowsing, death and souls, chakras, and Helen Nearing's death.
Date: October 10, 2013
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A. & Gaudette, Jeanne
System: 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
System: 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
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Valerie Martínez-Ebers, October 22, 2013

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Transcript of an interview with Dr. Valerie Martínez-Ebers, professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas and former UNT student. Dr. Martínez-Ebers discusses her childhood as an Army brat; education; family background; discrimination against Mexican Americans; attending UNT with a Mexican American ancestry; growing awareness of ethnicity and ethnic identity; student activism; differences in treatment and attitudes towards Latinos/Latinas in various parts of the United States; teaching politics of race and ethnicity at UNT; continued activism; UNT organizations for Latinos/Latinas.
Date: October 22, 2013
Creator: Bynum, Katherine E. & Martínez-Ebers, Valerie
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Warren Berkowitz, October 9, 2013

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Interview with Warren Berkowtiz, a teacher and homesteader from New York City. Berkowitz discusses growing up, attending college during the counterculture era, his career as a teacher, moving to Maine with his wife and tenting, communes, Scott and Helen Nearing, establishing a homestead, raising a family, thoughts on generational differences and culture, parenting, community life, and Helen Nearing's last years.
Date: October 9, 2013
Creator: Pomerleau, Clark A. & Berkowtiz, Warren
System: The UNT Digital Library