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Oral History Interview with James Gayle, July 15, 2006

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Interview with African American North Texas State University alumnus James Gayle. The interview included Gayle's personal experiences of childhood, playing basketball at Fort Worth's all-black Terrell High School, attending North Texas and enrolling in the ROTC program, and his experience as a boarder in "Shack Town" neighborhood of Denton. Gayle talks about the comparison of race relations in Artesia, New Mexico, and Waco and Forth Worth, Texas, the "neutral" stance of NT administration toward black students and the "self-support" system among students, as well as his relationships with professors and white students, and his perception of what he gained from his NT experience.
Date: July 15, 2006
Creator: Cervantez, Brian & Gayle, James
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Texas Folklore Society: Volume 3, 1971-2000 (open access)

The Texas Folklore Society: Volume 3, 1971-2000

Book containing information about the publishing history of the Texas Folklore Society, as well as anecdotes about the gatherings of the Society, information about past presidents of the Society, and Society by-laws. The index begins on page 219.
Date: 2000
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Soil Survey of McLennan County, Texas (open access)

Soil Survey of McLennan County, Texas

Text describes the area, climate, agricultural history and statistics, soil-survey methods and definitions, soils and crops, land uses and agricultural methods, irrigation, and morphology and genesis of soils of McLennan County, Texas.
Date: 2001
Creator: Miller, Glen B. & Greenwade, James M.
System: The Portal to Texas History
Texas State Technical College Waco Requests for Legislative Appropriations: 2010 and 2011 (open access)

Texas State Technical College Waco Requests for Legislative Appropriations: 2010 and 2011

Report submitted by Texas State Technical College Waco to the Texas 81st regular legislature requesting appropriations to fund programming and activities. It includes an overview of the institution's goals, summaries of appropriations requests for fiscal years 2010 and 2011, and supporting documentation.
Date: August 13, 2008
Creator: Texas State Technical College Waco
System: The Portal to Texas History

Oral History Interviews with Hazel Harvey Peace, 2003-2004

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Interview with Hazel Harvey Peace, a teacher and civil rights activist from Fort Worth, Texas, who was instrumental in expanding education for black citizens of the area. Peace discusses her parents, her education, becoming a teacher, working at various institutions over her life, books and entertainment growing up, her roll as a mentor, Fort Worth neighborhoods and the black communities, contemporary problems with integration and racism, admired leaders, her plays, her faith, and more.
Date: 2003-02-20/2004-03-28
Creator: Sprecht-Kelly, Melody & Harvey-Peace, Hazel
System: The UNT Digital Library