Oral History Interview with Darryl Bowdre, July 2, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Darryl Bowdre, July 2, 2015

Interview with Darryl Bowdre, a minister, journalist and community leader from Tyler, Texas. He discusses his early life, education, work, and civil rights activism .
Date: July 2, 2015
Creator: Bowdre, Darryl & Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Ernest Deckard, June 15, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Ernest Deckard, June 15, 2015

Interview with Ernest Deckard, labor organizer from Tyler, Texas. In his interview, Deckard discusses his childhood and education, his military service in the U.S. Army Air Corps, his work with labor unions, and his experiences with racial discrimination.
Date: June 15, 2015
Creator: Deckard, Ernest & Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Flora Gossett, June 19, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Flora Gossett, June 19, 2015

Interview with Flora Gossett, a retired domestic worker and church secretary, from Tyler, Texas. In the interview she describes her early life, experiences with Jim Crow discrimination in East Texas.
Date: June 19, 2015
Creator: Gossett, Flora; Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés & Bynum, Katherine
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Minnie Mosley Gram and Rostell Williams, June 29, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Minnie Mosley Gram and Rostell Williams, June 29, 2015

Interview with Minnie Mosley Gram and Rostell Williams, civil rights activists from Tyler, Texas. Gram and Rostell discuss their early lives, student activism, Jim Crow segregation, and community organizing in Tyler.
Date: June 29, 2015
Creator: Gram, Minnie Mosley; Williams, Rostell & Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Cedrick Granberry, June 24, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Cedrick Granberry, June 24, 2015

Interview with Cedrick Granberry, a barber and business owner from Tyler, Texas. In his interview, Granberry discusses his early life, his education at Tyler public schools, his experiences with racial discrimination and his involvement with the NAACP.
Date: June 24, 2015
Creator: Granberry, Cedirck; Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés; Dulaney, W. Marvin & Bynum, Katherine
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Sydney Eloyce Green, June 17, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Sydney Eloyce Green, June 17, 2015

Interview with Sydney Eloyce Green, teacher from Tyler, Texas. In her interview, Green discusses her early life, education, family genealogy, and experiences with racial discrimination, and school integration in Tyler. Green's father was Sydney Earl (S.E.) Palmer, a community activist who worked to achieve integrated schools in Tyler.
Date: June 17, 2015
Creator: Green, Sydney Eloyce & Bynum, Katherine
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Lawrence Harper, June 26, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Lawrence Harper, June 26, 2015

Interview with Lawrence Harper, small business owner from Big Sandy, Texas. In the interview, Harper discusses his early life and education, school integration, his time working for Exxon, labor organizing, and community outreach.
Date: June 26, 2015
Creator: Harper, Lawrence; Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés; Bynum, Katherine & Dulaney, W. Marvin
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Andrew Melontree, June 22, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Andrew Melontree, June 22, 2015

Interview with Andrew Melontree, a retired lawyer from Marlin, Texas. Melontree discusses his upbringing, education, experiences with discrimination and Jim Crow, his military service in the Air Force in the Korean War, his work as a laboratory technician, and his civil rights activism in Tyler.
Date: June 22, 2015
Creator: Melontree, Andrew & Bynum, Katherine
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Bettye Mitchell, July 1, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Bettye Mitchell, July 1, 2015

Interview with Bettye Mitchell a community leader from Tyler, Texas. In the interview, Mitchell discusses her family background, going to segregated and integrated schools, experiences with racism, civil rights activism, her church community, and her political activism.
Date: July 1, 2015
Creator: Mitchell, Bettye & Bynum, Katherine
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Edward D. Moore, June 15, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Edward D. Moore, June 15, 2015

Interview with Edward D. Moore, city councilman from Tyler, Texas. In the interview, Moore discusses his family background, childhood, education, desegregation, his work for Kelly-Springfield Tire, labor unions, community activism, and city politics.
Date: June 15, 2015
Creator: Moore, Edward D. & Bynum, Katherine
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with John Sims, June 26, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with John Sims, June 26, 2015

Interview with John Sims, a radio broadcaster from Tyler, Texas. In the interview, Sims discusses his family background, the Civil Rights Movement, beginning a broadcasting career, and engaging with the Black and Latino communities in Tyler through his radio program, community race relations, and the current racial climate in Tyler.
Date: June 26, 2015
Creator: Sims, John; Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés & Bynum, Katherine
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Joe Turner, June 24, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Joe Turner, June 24, 2015

Interview with Joe Turner from Tyler, Texas. In the interview, Turner discusses his early life and moving to Texas, experiencing racial discrimination in Whitehouse, Texas, his work for the Carrier company in Tyler, and union organizing.
Date: June 24, 2015
Creator: Turner, Joe & Bynum, Katherine
System: The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Gilbert Urbina, July 1, 2015 captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Gilbert Urbina, July 1, 2015

Interview with Gilbert Urbina, a small business owner from Tyler, Texas. In the interview, Urbina discusses the racial climate in Tyler, especially for the Latino community.
Date: July 1, 2015
Creator: Urbina, Gilbert; Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés & Bynum, Katherine
System: The Portal to Texas History