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Oral History Interview with Alvin Morgan, February 17, 1997

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Interview with Alvin Morgan, U.S. Army veteran (2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard) and a member of the "Lost Battalion," concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Fall of Java and his capture, Bicycle Camp in Batavia (1942), Changi Prison Camp in Singapore (1942), building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway (1942-1944), Kanchanaburi, Thailand (1944-1945), American air raids, and his liberation.
Date: {1997-02-17,1997-02-24,1997-03-03}
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Morgan, Alvin
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Burton S. Pearsall, April 20 and 21, 1997

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Transcript of an interview with Burton S. Pearsall, a Marine Corps veteran, concerning his experiences as a dive-bomber pilot in the Pacific Theater during World War II. Appendix includes photos, newspaper articles, samples of flight log, and US Marine Corps certificate.
Date: {1997-04-20,1997-04-21}
Creator: Jackson, Sarah C. & Pearsall, Burton S.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Dan C. Buzzo, February 11 and 16, 1998

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Interview with Dan Buzzo, an Army veteran (2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard) and a member of the "Lost Battalion," concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. He discusses the fall of Java and capture; Bicycle Camp, Batavia, 1942; Changi Prison Camp, Singapore, 1942; building the Burma- Thailand Death Railway, 1942-44; Kanchanaburi, Thailand, 1944; Tamuan and Tamuang, Thailand, 1944; Nakhon Nayok, Thailand, 1944-45; and his liberation.
Date: {1998-02-11,1998-02-16}
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Buzzo, Dan C.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Joseph R. Williams, August 24 and 30, 1990

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Transcript of an interview with Dr. Joseph Williams, a physician, concerning his experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas in the 1950s and 1960s. Williams discusses his childhood and education in Dallas, medical school at Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tennessee (1942-1945), his Army career, segregated housing in Dallas, discrimination against African-American physicians, dealing with the white power structure in Dallas, civil rights activities, his decision to build a home in Hamilton Park, Hamilton Park School and the quality of education, Karl Hoblitzelle, zoning problems, school desegregation, Pacesetter, and his decision to leave Hamilton Park.
Date: {1990-08-24,1990-08-30}
Creator: Wilson, William H. (William Henry), 1935- & Williams, Joseph R., 1920-
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Pauline Dixon, August 1990

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Interview with Pauline Dixon, a teacher, beautician, and resident of Hamilton Park. Dixon discusses her experiences growing up in the neighborhood, her educational background, the racial divide in the area, desegregation of schools, organizations she was involved in, and her teaching career.
Date: {1990-08-09,1990-08-15}
Creator: Wilson, William & Dixon, Pauline K.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interview with Ray Ogle, June 3, 1997

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Interview with Ray Ogle, U.S. Army veteran (2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery, Texas National Guard) and a member of the "Lost Battalion," concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Ogle discusses the fall of Java and his capture, Bicycle Camp in Batavia (1942), Changi Prison Camp in Singapore (1942), building the Burma-Thailand Death Railway (1942-1944), Kanchanaburi, Thailand (1944), railway maintenance work (1944-1945), and his liberation. The Appendix includes photocopies of World War II correspondence provided by Mr. Ogle.
Date: {1997-06-03,1997-06-10}
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Ogle, Ray
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with A. W. Dupree, Jr., July-August 1990

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Interview with A. W. Dupree, Jr., a resident of Hamilton Park in Dallas, Texas, regarding his experiences growing up in the area, attending Booker T. Washington High School, his music education, time in the United States Army during World War II, his music career, his family, and the local community.
Date: {1990-07-23,1990-08-16}
Creator: Wilson, William H. & Dupree, A. W., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Columbus Savage, May 1994

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Interview with Colonel Columbus Savage, an Army Air Corps veteran (16th Bomb Squadron) and a survivor of the Bataan Death March, concerning his experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Japanese during World War II. Savage discusses Bataan Airfield (1941-1942), the fall of Bataan and his capture, the Bataan Death March, Camp O'Donnell (1942), Cabanatuan (1942), Davao Penal Colony (1942-1944), Bilibid Prison in Manila (1944), the hell ship to Japan (1945), Mojo and Fukuoka, Kyushu (1945), Mukden, Manchuria (1945), and his liberation by Russian troops. Appendix includes a photocopy of an article from the May 24, 1991 edition of the Carswell Sentinel, titled, "Warrior received belated honors" by MSgt. Dick Hodgson.
Date: {1994-05-26,1994-05-31}
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Savage, Columbus
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Curtis J. Smith, 1990

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Interview with Curtis Smith, an airline employee and community leader, concerning his experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas from 1956 to 1990. Smith discusses his early life in East Texas, his employment in Dallas, his service in the U.S. Navy during World War II, job promotions with Braniff, African-American housing in Dallas, his decision to purchase a home in Hamilton Park in 1956, flooding problems, shopping in the community, traffic and access problems, social activities, church activities, Civic League, Hamiltonians, Interorganizational Council, political activities, zoning controversies, Willowdell Park, and the "Buy Out."
Date: {1990-02-02,1990-02-23,1990-03-30}
Creator: Wilson, William H. & Smith, Curtis J.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Edith Molner, February 1990

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Interview with Edith Molner, a Holocaust survivor from Szeged, Hungary. Molner discusses her education, her family background, being Jewish, increasing persecution by the Hungarian government during the war, the German invasion, relocation to the ghetto and life there, conversions and suicides, liquidation, experiences in internment at Auschwitz, labor, the hospital, losing her family, transfer to Mauthausen-Gusen, liberation, recovery, returning to Hungary, and moving to Israel.
Date: {1990-02-11,1990-02-18}
Creator: Rosen, Keith G. & Molner, Edith
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Eiland Collins, 1991

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Interview with Eiland Collins, a community leader, concerning his experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas from 1962 to 1991. Collins discusses his childhood in East Texas, his segregated education, Civic League and its activities, property violations, home improvements, his presidency of the Civic League, zoning problems, the "Buy Out," and current neighborhood problems.
Date: {1991-01-18,1991-03-12}
Creator: Wilson, William H. & Collins, Eiland
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Marvin "Smokey" Montgomery, 1996-1997

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Interview with Marvin "Smokey" Montgomery, musician, concerning his experiences as a member of the "Light Crust Doughboys" western swing band, 1935-42. Early musical career as a banjo player in a traveling tent show; employment with the 'Wanderers"; comments about Lee "Pappy" O'Daniel; work with Gene Autry and Republic Pictures; acquiring the nicknames "Junior" and later "Smokey"; "Doughboy recording sessions; comments about Bob Willis; comments about individual members of the "Doughboys" band; World War II and its effects on the "Doughboys"; employment making naval shells for Crown Machine and Tool in Fort Worth; relations between Bob Wills and 'Pappy' O'Daniel; moonlighting on the honky tonk circuit with the "Southern Selectors"; the "Doughboys" record sales; jamming with African-American musicians; performing with the "Duncan Coffee Grinders" during World War II; his return to the "Doughboys" after World War II; performances with the "Texo Hired Hands"; performing with the "Levee Singers" in the Levee Club in Dallas during th the 1960s; comments about rockabilly performer Ronnie Dawson; comments about the record business; his career as a music arranger; operation of the Sumet-Bernet Recording Studios in Fort Worth; employment as music director for the "Big D Jamboree," 1941-60; his song writing career; experiences with "Lefty" …
Date: {1996-09-07,1997-03-13}
Creator: Daniels, John D.; Schotte, Will & Greenhaw, Art
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Max Pila, 1993-1994

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Interview with Max Pila, a Holocaust survivor from Zlav, Poland. Pila discusses his family and Jewish background, antisemitism, the German invasion, life in the ghetto, executions, labor, transfer to Auschwitz-Birkenau, daily experience in internment, mining at Janina, the forced march to Bergen-Belsen, liberation, and life afterwards.
Date: {1993-10-15,1994-04-01}
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Pila, Max
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Melvin Land, 1993

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Oral history interviews with Melvin Land, a veteran of the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) from Coalton, Oklahoma. The interview contains details of Land's childhood and the death of his mother, his experiences in the Great Depression, his experience being a recruit and an educational advisor in the CCC, his experiences as an active duty officer for the Naval Air Station, and his experiences working at the Rusk State Hospital.
Date: {1993-02-27,1993-03-16}
Creator: Rowe, Beverly & Land, Melvin
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Sheila R. Allen, 1991

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Interview with Sheila Allen concerning her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas from 1958 to 1991. Allen discusses her education at Hamilton Park School, the desegregation of Hamilton Park School, her experiences at Richardson Junior High, her experiences in law school at the University of Texas, the relationships between Hamilton Park and other African-American communities, school activities as a teenager, and the "Buy Out."
Date: {1991-06-21,1991-09-04}
Creator: Wilson, William H. & Allen, Sheila R.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Vivian T. Starks, 1991

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Interview with Vivian Starks, a schoolteacher, concerning her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas from 1954 to 1991. Starks discusses her segregated education in Bryan, Texas, Wiley College, her teaching career in segregated Dallas schools, her decision to buy a home in Hamilton Park, transportation problems, home improvements, church activities, Civic League, the "Buy Out," zoning problems, Interorganizational Council and political activities, employment at Hamilton Park School, the desegregation of Hamilton Park School and her transfer to Richardson Independent School District, and Pacesetter.
Date: {1991-04-23,1991-05-08}
Creator: Wilson, William H. & Starks, Vivian T.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Willie B. Johnson, February, 1990

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Interview with Mrs. Willie B. Johnson, a nurse from Kaufman, Texas. Johnson discusses growing up in a sharecropping family, racism in the community, work on the farm, her education, becoming a nurse and working at Parkland Hospital in Dallas, moving to Hamilton Park, unfair access to utilities, her children's education and difficulties with the school system, the Civic League, her husband, her children, other places she's lived, police harassment, the NAACP, and life in Hamilton Park. An addendum includes additional biographical information about Mrs. Johnson.
Date: {1990-02-09,1990-02-22}
Creator: Wilson, William H. & Johnson, Willie B.
System: The UNT Digital Library

Oral History Interviews with Zan W. Holmes Jr., 1991

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Interview with Zan W. Holmes, Jr., a clergyman and community leader, concerning his experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas during the 1950s and 1960s. Holmes discusses his youth and adolescent years in Waco, segregated education, college at Huston-Tillotson (1952-1956), entry to Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University (1956), organizing the Hamilton Park Methodist Church and his partnership there, his home in Hamilton Park, his political activities, church youth programs, zoning problems, and Hamilton Park School and desegregation.
Date: {1991-09-19,1991-11-05}
Creator: Wilson, William H. & Holmes, Zan W., Jr.
System: The UNT Digital Library
31st Annual Report (open access)

31st Annual Report

The ACIR Library is composed of publications that study the interactions between different levels of government. This document is an annual report.
Date: January 1990
Creator: United States. Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Benjamin Capps and the South Plains: A Literary Relationship (open access)

Benjamin Capps and the South Plains: A Literary Relationship

Book discussing the life and work of author Benjamin Capps, organized into sections based on categories of his work: Capps the Man, the Anglo Novels, the Indian Novels, the historical Nonfiction, and the Writer on His Craft. Index starts on page 189.
Date: 1990
Creator: Clayton, Lawrence
System: The UNT Digital Library
[Booklet: Dallas Black Living Legends] (open access)

[Booklet: Dallas Black Living Legends]

Booklet about the Dallas Black Living Legends exhibition event and detailing featured 'legends' during the event.
Date: 1990/1991
Creator: Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters.
System: The UNT Digital Library
The Bounty of Texas (open access)

The Bounty of Texas

This volume of the Publications of the Texas Folklore Society contains a miscellany of Texas, Mexican and Spanish folklore, including information about hunting, canning, cooking, and other folklore. The index begins on page 225.
Date: 1990
Creator: Abernethy, Francis Edward
System: The UNT Digital Library
Catalog of Abilene Christian University, 1990-1991 (open access)

Catalog of Abilene Christian University, 1990-1991

Undergraduate catalog describes the governance, history, course offerings, and campus life of Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas.
Date: 1990
Creator: Abilene Christian University
System: The Portal to Texas History
Catalog of Abilene Christian University, 1990-1991 (open access)

Catalog of Abilene Christian University, 1990-1991

Graduate catalog describes the governance, history, course offerings, and campus life of Abilene Christian University in Abilene, Texas.
Date: 1990
Creator: Abilene Christian University
System: The Portal to Texas History