Herby Garza discussed career as a letter carrier in Corpus Christi and president of the Letter Carriers Union local.

Mr. Figueroa recounted his role as a Robstown school board member during 1969 walkouts.

Mr. Garcia discussed growing up in the Coastal Bend area and his career as a principal in Corpus Christi.

Tijerina-Taylor discussed growing up in Robstown and her career as a teacher.

Rebecca talks about growing up in rural areas and in San Antonio, working in the fields, her time at Texas A&I, and her politicization at University of Michigan; she also talks about feminism; she also talks about her exclusion from the Chicano Movement to a certain degree because she worked full time;

Rebecca talks about growing up in rural areas and in San Antonio, working in the fields, her time at Texas A&I, and her politicization at University of Michigan; she also talks about feminism; she also talks about her exclusion from the Chicano Movement to a certain degree because she worked full time.

Ms. Benham was born and raised in Lufkin, Texas. She went to segregated schools in Lufkin before participating in integration during the 1969-1970 school year. She graduated high school and went to college at the University of North Texas. She then became a flight attendant and worked in retail. She returned to Lufkin and worked with her mother, Bettie Kennedy, in the community. In the interview, Ms. Benham describes segregation in Lufkin, experiences with discrimination, problems during integration, discrimination she experienced at UNT, her work as a flight attendant, her time spent in retail, and the work of both her and her mother in the community.

Jew Don Boney, Jr. was born in 1951 in Temple. His first experience with segregation was when his mother was initally denied entry into Scott and White Hospital when she went into labor with Boney. His parents were educators and his father wrote a dissertation on the racial biases in standarized testing while pursuing a doctorate in Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Boney relocated to Austin in 1966 and attended the University of Texas at Austin in the Fall of 1969. He became involved in Black-Brown student activism at this time. After spending a few years in radio and TV, Boney worked for the Urban League and became the Chairman of the National Black United Front Chapter in Houston. He later served as a city councilman for District D and a Mayor Pro Tem. Boney dedicated three years to the Free Clarence Bradley Campaign in order to exonerate a man falsely accused of the rape and murder of a white woman in Conroe, spent time bridging African and U.S. relations, advanced economic initiatives in Africa, and secured grants to process the Mickey Leland Papers at Texas Southern University while he served as the Associate Director for …

Daniel Caudillo was born to Mexican immigrants in Odessa, Texas. He grew up as a migrant child with a home base in Odessa. Caudillo graduated from Permian High School in 2000, and then briefly attended Odessa College and the University of Texas-Permian Basin. He graduated from Texas Tech University in 2003 and then the Law School of Texas Tech University in 2007. Caudillo then went to work for an immigration law firm in El Paso, Texas; he opened his own law firm dedicated to immigration law in 2008 with offices in both El Paso and Odessa. Caudillo advises the public on immigration law through various non-profits.

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.

A Certificate Recital performed at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

David T. Lopez was born in Laredo, TX. He attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he became involved as a reporter and editor for the Daily Texan and the Texas Ranger. His involvement in news reporting lead him to work for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, where he reported on Black and Brown efforts in school desegregation. Attracted by Cesar Chavez and United Farm Workers movement, Lopez would participate in the strikes in the Rio Grande Valley and would report on the repressive tactics of the Texas Rangers as a plaintiff in the Medrano v. Allee lawsuit. He eventually got his law degree at South Texas College of Law in Houston and worked as a field representative for the AFL-CIO. Lopez discusses how he served on the HISD school board, the politics of the Huelga School Strike, how he was one of the first lecturers for the University of Houston Center for Mexican American Studies, and police brutality.

Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during their Ties and Tux Gala Honoring Curtis King event in 2013. The video shows various members of TBAAL and guests celebrating the work of founder and president, Curtis King including speeches and performances. The event was held at the Downtown Dallas Omni Hotel.

A senior recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Discussed her mother's work as a domestic, the family's encounters with racism, her entrepreneurship, and her work on civil rights and black women's empowerment.

Mr. Mitchell was born and raised in Stamps, Arkansas. Mitchell traveled to the Cleveland area after the saw mill in Arkansas was shut down. Mr. Mitchell received his barber's license and started his own barbershop in the 1960s. Mr. Mitchell worked in other industries while sustaining his barber shop. Mr. Mitchell and other members of the Cleveland Black community organized in efforts to integrate Cleveland. They attended several government meetings and negotiated with officials. Mr. Mitchell once showed up at a meeting of the local white citizen council and received death threats after revealing his opinion about the council's proposal of halting integration by providing more funding for the Cleveland Black school. Following the meeting, Mitchell received a death threat by a local pastor. Mitchell ultimately served for decades on the Cleveland school board after being elected in the 1960s.

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Choir Room in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree. This stage perspective rehearsal is for the February 27, 2015 performance for the St. Monica's Chamber Choir.

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Voertman Hall.

Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during the roundtable writer's breakfast: " A Soldier's Perspective" covering the book "Arrested Potential: Through the Eyes of a Soldier" written by army combat veteran G. M. Jones. The breakfast was held on October 17, 2012 and covers the topics of black men in the the military and the authors experiences in combat.

Recital presented at the UNT College of Music Concert Hall in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.

Unedited video of the first segment of the 2016 Festival of Black Dance at The Black Academy of Arts and Letters, including performances by the Atlanta Dance Connection.

Unedited video of the first segment of the 2016 Festival of Black Dance at The Black Academy of Arts and Letters, including performances by the Atlanta Dance Connection.

Unedited video of the second segment of the 2016 Festival of Black Dance at The Black Academy of Arts and Letters, including performances by the Stella Maris Dance Ensemble.

Unedited video of the second segment of the 2016 Festival of Black Dance at The Black Academy of Arts and Letters, including performances by the Stella Maris Dance Ensemble.