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World War II Pacific Theater Oral History Project
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Texas Community History Oral History Project
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Quakertown Oral History Project
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Texas Community Oral History Project
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World War II China-India-Burma Theater Oral History Project
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World War II Pearl Harbor Survivors Oral History Project
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General Curtis LeMay Oral History Project
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Cold War Oral History Project
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DFW Immigration Oral History Project
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Denton County Historical Commission
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Oral History Interview with Jacobo Kupersztoch, October 12, 2007
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Interview with Jacobo Kupersztoch, Mexican-born immigrant to the U.S. of German heritage, and immigrant rights activist. Interview transcript contains Spanish and English translations.
Date:
October 12, 2007
Creator:
Calderon, Roberto & Kupersztoch, Jacobo
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Laura Gonzalez, October 13, 2007
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Interview with Laura Gonzalez, Mexican-born immigrant to the U.S., immigrant rights activist, and professor of anthropology with expertise in immigrant communities from Guanajuato, Mexico. She discusses her childhood and education in Mexico city; the decision to pursue a career in the field of political anthropology; decision to open the Oak Cliff Center for Community Studies; work with Camposanto del Cemento Grande and other community organizations in Dallas; work to increase Hispanics’ access to college; and involvement in immigrant rights movements and local Mexican American political groups. This interview has Spanish and English translations.
Date:
October 13, 2007
Creator:
Calderon, Roberto & Laura, Gonzalez
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with William Alexander Hatcher, December 4, 2008
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Transcript of an interview with William Hatcher, a World War II Army veteran (29th Bomb Group, 20th Air Force). Hatcher discusses concerning his his childhood and education; family's experiences in the Great Depression; decision to attend University of Tennessee-Knoxville and major in mechanical engineering; memories of Pearl Harbor attack; decision to join U.S. Army Enlisted Reserve Corps in 1942; 1943 call-up; basic training at Ft. Belvoir, Va.; instruction in engineering, communications, and radar repair at City College of New York and Chanute Field, Ill.; assignments to Truax Field, Wis., and Boca Raton, Fla.; meeting future wife, Jean E. Sheppard, at USO Club in West Palm Beach, Fla.; transfer to B-29 unit and bases in Neb. And Kan.; deployment to Guam with 29th Bomb Group, 20th Air Force, March 1945; details of high-altitude radar repair work; aspects of daily life for American soldiers stationed in Guam; descriptions of devastation of Japan, including Hiroshima; transfer to base on Tinian; return to U.S. in February 1946; wedding; return to UT-Knoxville using GI Bill benefits; work at Oak Ridge; decision to transfer to University of New Mexico for Mrs. Hatcher's health; career with U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Convair Corp. of Fort Worth; …
Date:
December 4, 2008
Creator:
Hegi, Benjamin & Hatcher, William Alexander, 1923-
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Gudrun Raschen, November 1, 2009
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Transcript of an interview with Gudrun Raschen, a German-born immigrant to Denton, Texas, and adjunct professor of Music at Texas Woman's University. Raschen shares concerning her childhood, and education in Kiel and Hamburg, Germany; family history; parents' move to South Africa; own move to South Africa; discovery of the cello and decision to study it seriously; involvement in anti-apartheid movement; decision to move to the U.S. for graduate school; attraction of UNT Doctorate of Musical Arts program; first impressions of the U.S. and of Denton; comparison and contrast of life in Germany, South Africa, and the U.S.; plans for the future.
Date:
November 1, 2009
Creator:
Schnur, Abra & Raschen, Gudrun
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
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
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Fred Hill, November 6, 2006
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Transcript of an interview with Fred Hill, a son of residents of Denton's historic all-black Quakertown neighborhood. Hill discusses concerning his experiences of his parents, Othella and T.C. Hill, and other family members who were forced to move from the all-black Quakertown neighborhood of Denton, his career in the U.S. Army and as an undertaker in Denton, and Quakertown in family's historical memory. Appendix includes photographs (five pages), a map of Quakertown (one page), and a list of sources (one page).
Date:
November 6, 2006
Creator:
Yancey, Sherelyn & Hill, Fred L., 1934-
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Charles Williams, October 23, 2006
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Transcript of an interview with Charles Williams, a son of resident's of Denton's historic all-black Quakertown neighborhood and long-time Denton resident, concerning his early childhood and education in Denton, including experiences with racial segregation and experiences with integrating Denton public schools; interest in radical black politics; influence of uncle, Fred Hill; career in U.S. Navy; family's historical memories of Quakertown. Includes photographs (two pages), a map of Quakertown (one page), and a list of sources (one page).
Date:
October 23, 2006
Creator:
Yancey, Sherelyn & Williams, Charles, 1955-
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Norvell Hill Williams Reed, September 14, 2006
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Transcript of an interview with Norvell Hill Williams Reed, a longtime Denton resident and former resident of Denton's historic all-black Quakertown neighborhood. Reed shares concerning her childhood in Quakertown; family history; family's forced move out of Quakertown to Solomon Hill neighborhood of Denton; race relations in Denton; participation in Denton Christian Women's Fellowship; family's historical memories of Quakertown. Appendix includes photographs (13 pages), one map (1 page), and a list of sources (1 page).
Date:
September 14, 2006
Creator:
Yancey, Sherelyn & Reed, Norvell Hill Williams, 1921-
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Rev. Reginald Logan, Sr., November 28, 2006
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Transcript of an interview with Rev. Reginald Logan, Sr., a descendant of Quakertown homeowners, concerning the experiences of his father, John Logan, and other family members who were forced to move from the all-black Quakertown neighborhood of Denton, Texas. Logan also discusses his experiences while attending segregated schools in Denton; career in U.S. Air Force and communications industry and as a clergyman; and Quakertown in family's historical memory.
Date:
November 28, 2006
Creator:
Yancey, Sherelyn & Logan, Reginald, 1948-
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Ledell Randle, October 7, 2006
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Interview with Ledell Randall, resident of Eastland, Texas, regarding her memories of as member of the African American community in Eastland County. Randall discusses growing up on a farm in Hawkins, Texas, family, the Texas State Fair, factory work in Dallas, segregation, coming to Eastland, her children, integration, opening up a barbeque with her husband (King's Barbeque), and local organizations.
Date:
October 7, 2006
Creator:
Rose, DaAnn & Randle, Ledell
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Marvin Dunn, October 11, 2007
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Interview with Korean War veteran Marvin Dunn as part of the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. The interview includes Dunn's personal experiences about boot camp and training, combat in Korea, combat at Hill 749 and Hill 884, and of being a teacher, principal, and administrator in Dallas ISD. Additionally, Dunn discusses his decision to drop out of college to join the U.S. Marine Corps, his assignment to combat unit, the battlefield injury at "the Punchbowl," that resulted in his leg amputation, the following recuperation, his opinions regarding enemy soldiers and what the U.S. accomplished in the war, civilian opinions of the war, struggling with post-traumatic stress disorder, returning to college and graduate school, and his involvement with Korean War Veterans Organization. The interview also includes an appendix with photographs.
Date:
October 11, 2007
Creator:
Montandon, Josh & Dunn, Marvin
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Ana R. Alonso-Minutti, October 21, 2009
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Interview with assistant professor of music history at UNT Ana R. Alonso-Minutti, Mexican-born immigrant to Dallas, as part of the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. The interview includes Alonso-Minutti's personal experiences of childhood and education in Mexico, attending college at Universidad de las Americas, discovering music history as a discipline of study, a one-year course of study in theology in Dallas, choir direction at a church in England, attending graduate school, and accepting a job offer from UNT. Additionally, Alonso-Minutti discusses family history, her grandparents' migration from Spain and Italy, her first impressions of the U.S., the decision to study musicology in the U.S. or Great Britain, the citizenship process, and the contrast of life in Mexico, England, California, and Texas.
Date:
October 21, 2009
Creator:
Onspaugh, Patrick & Alonso-Minutti, Ana R.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Sharon Acierno, October 9, 2007
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Interview with Sharon "Tommie" Acierno, Vietnam War veteran, as part of the Tarrant County War Veterans Oral History Project. The interview includes Acierno's personal experiences about childhood, dropping out of high school and enlisting in the U.S. Army, basic and clerical training, working as drill sergeant at Ft. McClellan, struggling with alcoholism and post-traumatic stress disorder, and working with the Vietnam Veterans of America group. Acierno also discusses her coming out experience, volunteering for assignment to Vietnam, her clerical duties with a logistics unit at Long Binh, the camaraderie among gay and straight troops, her experiences with apathetic citizens and antiwar protesters upon return to the U.S., deciding to leave the Army and relocate to Dallas, her experience in the Veterans Administration psychiatric ward, and her opinions regarding the "Don't ask, don't tell" policy and the treatment of women in the military generally. The interview includes an appendix with photographs.
Date:
October 9, 2007
Creator:
Mims, Michael & Acierno, Sharon
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Alma Clark, September 29, 2006
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Interview with Alma Clark, first-generation descendant through marriage of Quakertown residents, as part of the Quakertown Oral History Project. The interview includes Clark's personal experiences about childhood and education, marrying Rev. "Willie" Clark, moving to Denton, and participating in Denton Christian Women's Fellowship. Clark also discusses her family's experience in Denton as well as her husband's feelings regarding Denton's Civic Center Park, on the site of Quakertown. The interview includes an appendix with photographs.
Date:
June 29, 2006
Creator:
Yancey, Sherelyn & Clark, Alma
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with George E. Fortenberry, September 24, 2003
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Interview with George E. Fortenberry, who is an Army veteran and college professor from Arlington, Texas. In the interview, Fortenberry discusses his experiences in the Southwest Pacific Theatre during his time as a member of the 112th Cavalry of the Texas National Guard during World War II. He also describes what it was like growing up during the Great Depression and attending various different schools in both Texas and Oklahoma. Fortenberry discusses why he decided to join the National Guard, and also his experiences in early basic cavalry training. During much of the interview, Fortenberry reminisces about many of his various assignments and duties while serving in the war. Among these discussed include his assignment as a clerk to the veterinary section, time in Fort Bliss and Fort Clark, his shipment overseas to Noumea in New Caledonia, his transfer to the Medical Detachment as a clerk, and his time in New Britain, New Guinea and the Philippines. Fortenberry also recollects about everyday life in the Southwest Pacific, and includes details on tropical diseases and combat-related psychological problems that many of his comrades suffered through.
Date:
September 24, 2003
Creator:
Johnston, Glenn T. & Fortenberry, George E.
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library