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[Battleship Texas]
Aerial footage of the Battleship Texas, docked in Site in La Porte, Texas. Video footage is silent.
Date:
July 7, 2022
Creator:
Hicks, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
[San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site]
Aerial and B-roll footage from the San Jacinto Battleground State Historic Site in La Porte, Texas. Clips feature the San Jacinto Monument, reflecting pool, granite markers, as well as water and landscapes across the site as seen from various elevations. Video footage is silent.
Date:
July 7, 2022
Creator:
Hicks, William
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Doctoral Recital: 2021-10-23 – Dawson White, viola
Recital presented at Cullen Hall, University of St. Thomas in partial fulfillment of the Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) degree.
Date:
October 23, 2021
Creator:
White, Dawson
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[A quarto for an INFO 5450 Rare Books project]
Video of Lance Wilbanks, a UNT (Houston Program) library and information science graduate student, demonstrating a quarto for an INFO 5450 Rare Books project. The video was recorded in Houston, Texas at Mr. Wilbanks' apartment and submitted to the class during the 2021 Fall semester. The project required students to make their own quarto and explain its salient and important features. Mr. Wilbanks chose to use a short story from Winnie the Pooh, "Winnie the Pooh and Some Bees", as the mock content of the quarto.
Date:
Autumn 2021
Creator:
Wilbanks, Lance
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Providing access to Spanish language resources online
Panel presentation: Providing access to Spanish language resources online by Julie Judkins, Jaimi Parker, and Maia Gibbons. In Fall 2020, the University of North Texas Special Collections department initiated a pilot project to translate English language finding aids and digital exhibits into Spanish, to provide greater accessibility. Jaimi Parker and Julie Judkins, will outline methods used for translation and provide advice to institutions undertaking translation projects of their own, regardless of available resources. Note: Video begins a few minutes after the presentation began.
Date:
May 20, 2020
Creator:
Esparza, Anna; Judkins, Julie & Parker, Jaimi
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Tommy Daniels, November 22, 2018
Interview with Tommy Daniels discussing his childhood in Kerrville, going to Rice University on a football scholarship, his career in banking, and his family.
Date:
November 22, 2018
Creator:
Collins, Francelle Robison; Flory, Bonnie Pipes & Daniels, Thomas Earl
System:
The Portal to Texas History
World's Longest History Lesson: Unit 10. Revolution, Part 3
Video of Dr. Torget's lecture on the Texas Revolution (continued from part 2), covering: (3) Aftermath of the Siege of the Alamo, (4) Massacre at Goliad, (5) Runaway Scrape, (6) San Jacinto.
Date:
2018-08-24T19:58:51/2018-08-24T20:58:48
Creator:
Torget, Andrew J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
World's Longest History Lesson: Unit 10. Revolution, Part 3 (ASL Interpretation)
American Sign Language interpretation of Dr. Torget's lecture on the Texas Revolution (continued from part 2), covering: (3) Aftermath of the Siege of the Alamo, (4) Massacre at Goliad, (5) Runaway Scrape, (6) San Jacinto. Video contains picture-in-picture rendering of slides and original narration.
Date:
2018-08-24T19:58:51/2018-08-24T20:58:48
Creator:
Torget, Andrew J.
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Joe Schmerber, December 5, 2017
Interview with Joe Schmerber, who worked for and helped establish departments in Mooney Aircraft Company and Bridgestone Tires. The interview discusses his parents, early years as one of nine children, his work experience, education, interest in aviation, and family life.
Date:
December 5, 2017
Creator:
Collins, Francelle Robison; Flory, Bonnie Pipes & Schmerber, Joe Henry
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with A. B. Bell and R. A. Bell, October 18, 2016
Interview with Arthur Baker Bell and Robert Alan Bell, alumni of Tivy High School, from Kerrville, Texas. The Bell brothers recount their memories of the public Cascade Swimming Pool, Robert's time as a university swimmer, Arthur's hitchhiking trip to Alaska, and their community activities that have occurred since their retirement.
Date:
October 18, 2016
Creator:
Collins, Francelle Robison; Flory, Bonnie Pipes; Bell, Arthur Baker & Bell, Robert Alan
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Maria Jordan, July 31, 2016
Mrs. Jordan has worked as a community social worker mainly servicing the Hispanic/Latino population in mainly Houston and Montgomery County. Jordan has worked to ensure that the Hispanic/Latino population has access to resources. Jordan consistently collaborates with other organizations that fosters multiracial collaborations. Jordan discussed growing up in Houston and Aldine. Jordan's family left the Barrio in Houston and moved to the more rural Aldine when she was three. Jordan discussed the different cultural practices she learned by having Cuban and Mexican parents, visiting the Barrio and living in a predominantly white and rural area. Jordan witnessed violence between residents of the Barrio and law enforcement. Jordan also discussed her experience with school integration. Jordan describes the changes in racial demographics of Montgomery County and efforts to secure political representation through creating and sustaining a multiracial coalition.
Date:
July 31, 2016
Creator:
Jordan, Maria; Howard, Jasmin & May, Meredith
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Janelle Robles, July 29, 2016
Jannell Robles was born in 1987 in Northern Pasadena. She grew-up in an extended family environment. Robles recalls her family sharing stories of encounters with the Ku Klux Klan in Pasadena. After graduating from high school, she got involved in the Immigrant Rights Movement. Robles worked as an Immigrant Advocacy Coordinator for the Central American Resource Center, an Immigrant Outreach Coordinator for The Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) in San Antonio, a Reconciliation Project Coordinator for the the Texas Criminal Justice Coalition, and as an intern for the Houston Interfaith Worker Justice Center's Build a Better Texas Campaign. She discusses the disparity of city services in North and South Pasadena, how Mexican American Studies at the University of North Texas set her on a community activist path, the rise of anti-immigrant bills after Arizona's SB 1070, addressing immigrant construction workers that are exposed to unsafe working conditions, and Secure Communities and the bridging of law enforcement and immigration enforcement. She also talks about how she worked to unite African Americans and Latinas/os around mutual issues, how Maria Jimenez served as a mentor to her, and how women's leadership style was more communal.
Date:
July 29, 2016
Creator:
Enriquez, Sandra; Rodriguez, Samantha & Robles, Janelle
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Patricia Gonzales, July 29, 2016
Patricia "Pat" Gonzales was born in 1967 in Houston in the Gulfgate area. She moved to the toxic Manchester neighborhood, a predominately Latina/o area of town next to the oil refineries, after she graduated from high school. Gonzales became active in the environmental justice movement due to the health issues she acquired while living next to the refineries. She later worked for the Texas Organizing Project to address the lack of infrastructure in the Northern Pasadena area. Gonzales discusses the risk of explosions in Pasadena, attending EPA conferences and addressing environmental racism, how the Anglo power structure functions in Pasadena, and how both African Americans and Latinas/os are neglected. She also talks about the recent voting rights violations in Pasadena and how the city capitulates to the interests of the oil industry.
Date:
July 29, 2016
Creator:
Enriquez, Sandra; Rodriguez, Samantha & Gonzales, Patricia
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Felix Fraga, June 28, 2016
Felix Fraga was born in Houston in 1929. His parents settled in Houston's East End. At a young age, he began working in the Rusk Settlement House, where his bosses supported him and his education. He attended the University of Houston on a baseball scholarship. His work in the Rusk Settlement House and the growth of the Mexican American population in the area led him to work at the Ripley House in 1954. In 1970, he became the director of the Ripley House until he stepped down in 1990. During his tenure as director, he instituted several programs to help the community including English and citizenship classes, youth mentoring, early childcare, and became a polling place. In the last few years, the Ripley House has expanded by creating several charter schools to help the community of East End. Fraga served in the Houston Independent School District from 1990-1994 and in Houston City Council from 1994-1999. Towards the conclusion of his interview, Fraga discusses his legacy and and community leader Lionel Castillo.
Date:
July 28, 2016
Creator:
Enriquez, Sandra; Rodriguez, Samantha & Fraga, Felix
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Perri McCary, July 28, 2016
Perri "P.K." McCary was born in 1953 in Texarkana. She grew-up in a ethnically diverse community in Alamo Garden, New Mexico and later lived near Prairie View A&M University when her father obtained a teaching position in the Industrial Education Department. McCary's parents gave her the tools to resist discrimination by exhibiting a strong sense of self and for confronting racist acts in front of her. She would opt to attend Jack Yates High School when her family moved to Houston because of the poor treatment of African-American students at the predominately white Madison High School. By 1970, McCary was attending the University of Houston and becoming involved in student activism. She would later engage in peace work and adapting religious texts with Black urban language to appeal to youth. She talks about instances of racism growing up, how her early experiences with diversity shaped the ways in which she engaged in cross-racial collaborations in her adult life, how Deloyed Parker and Ester King mentored her at UH, police brutality, and her family's association with the political movements of the 1960s and 1970s. She also discusses SHAPE Community Center and the Elders Institute of Wisdom, when she wrote a newspaper …
Date:
July 28, 2016
Creator:
Enriquez, Sandra; Rodriguez, Samantha & McCary, Perri
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Jew Don Boney, July 27, 2016
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 …
Date:
July 27, 2016
Creator:
Boney, Jew Don; Enriquez, Sandra & Rodriguez, Samantha
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Raphael Montgomery on July 26, 2018.
Raphael Montgomery was born in 1973 in Baytown. He came of age in the African-American Cedar Bayou neighborhood where there was a vibrant African-American business community and residents created a village setting. His parents raised him with the idea that he had to work harder and smarter due to racial discrimination. After graduating from Ross S. Sterling High School, Montgomery attended Prairie View A&M briefly before enrolling at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. At Fisk University, he gained a deeper awareness of the Civil Rights Movement and African-American history that he did not receive in public school. The knowledge he gleaned from African-American texts and African-American Studies courses instilled a sense of pride and the ability to perservere. During these college years, Montgomery received the call to become a minister and to later return to Baytown to preach at his childhood church, Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church. He talks about racial profiling by the police, growing up in the church and his father's role as a preacher, the benefits of attending a HBCU, and his position as a special education teacher for Goose Creek Independent School District. He also describes his unity and inclusion work in Baytown through his church …
Date:
July 26, 2016
Creator:
Enriquez, Sandra & Montgomery, Raphael
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Cody Wheeler, July 25, 2016
Cody Wheeler was born in Dalhart, Texas in 1985. He moved to Pasadena with his family in 1991. Wheeler developed a political consciousness as a young kid due to his father's union involvement. He attended schools in the Pasadena Independent School District and graduated from Deer Park High School. In 2003, he joined the Marines and did tours in Iraq. Upon his return from the war, he enrolled at the University of Houston. The persistent stark differences between North and South Pasadena pushed him to successfully run for city council member in 2013. During his campaign, he made an attempt to educate his constituents and get them out to vote. As a member of city council, he has been a witness to the voting rights violations resulting from the redistricting of Pasadena (which he describes in detail). Wheeler also described his unsuccessful run for state representative for district 144 in 2016.
Date:
July 25, 2016
Creator:
Enriquez, Sandra; Rodriguez, Samantha & Wheeler, Cody
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Daler Wade, July 25, 2016
Mrs. Wade attended an all-Black school in Houston and during freedom of choice the Black students collectively decided not to integrate because white school officials had sought to only allow the top Black students to integrate. Wade benefited from the land ownership of her family. By owning land, Wade's mother was able to take care of her two children following the early death of her husband. Wade attributed her father's early death to an injury that occurred during his military service. Wade also attributed her brother contracting polio and her mother's subsequent difficulty obtaining care for her brother to discrimination. Wade's mother initially worked in menial jobs despite having a degree because she could not be hired as an secretary. Wade's mother ultimately started in the 1960s and sustained her own in-home business for decades. Wade described her schooling experiences at Texas Woman's University and Texas Christian University. Wade received some negative feedback from her teacher's for deciding to not attend a historically Black college or university. Wade decided to attend a predominantly white university because she was curious about the level of education white people were receiving. Wade began a career in corporate America shortly after graduating from TCU …
Date:
July 25, 2016
Creator:
Howard, Jasmine & Wade, Daler
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Jesse Shead, July 22, 2016
Jesse Shead was born in 1947 in East Austin, a segregated African American neighborhood with thriving businesses. He grew-up going to African American schools, such as Campbell Elementary and Kealing Junior High, and experienced a middle-class lifestyle in his ethnic enclave. Shead went to Anderson High School before its closure and and reopening as an integrate school in 1971. After attending Huston-Tillotson University in Austin for two years, he was employed for the Humble Oil and Refinery Company in Baytown as it was transitioning to Exxon. While in Baytown, Shead witnessed instances of discrimination where he was refused service at local businesses. He talks about how desegregation efforts in Austin lead to the drain of African American professionals in the schools and overall community of East Austin, the weak company union at Exxon, how he was one of the few African Americans to work in the Exxon's processing department, his inability to rent in certain areas of town due to his race, and racial discrimination at Lee High School during the time that his two sons were attending. Shead also describes his unsuccessful bid to serve on the board of regents for Lee College, organizing around the police brutality case …
Date:
July 22, 2016
Creator:
Enriquez, Sandra; Rodriguez, Samantha & Shead, Jesse
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with August Lastrappe, July 21, 2016
Mr. Lastrappe spent his formative years in Conroe, Texas. He went to school at Booker T. Washington. Upon graduating, he went to California, where he witnessed the Watts Riot. Following that, he went to Chicago and then Seattle, where he worked primarily in juvenile detention facilities, then retired and returned to Texas. Mr. Lastrappe's interview describes segregation in Conroe, black-owned businesses, discrimination in Chicago, comparisons between Texas, Chicago, and Seattle, and a discussion of Mr. Lastrappe's publication of poetry.
Date:
July 21, 2016
Creator:
Lastrappe, August; May, Meredith & Howard, Jasmin
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Oscar Del Toro, July 21, 2016
Oscar del Toro was born in Coahuila, México in 1964. At age 4, he and his family moved to Monterrey, where he came of age and lived until he moved to the United States in 2000. He fully described 12 year waiting period to immigrate to Pasadena. A businessman, he joined the Chamber of Commerce, which propelled him to become interested in politics. In 2015, he unsuccessfully ran for one of the at-large districts following the redistricting of Pasadena in 2013. He described the redistricting and how it took power away from the Latino community in Pasadena, and the current lawsuit.
Date:
July 21, 2016
Creator:
Enriquez, Sandra; Rodriguez, Samantha & Del Toro, Oscar
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Elvira Martinez, July 20, 2016
Elvira Martinez was born in 1929 in Baytown, Texas. Her father lived in "El Campo," the Humble Oil and Refinery Company community for their predominately Mexican American male employees. Martinez remembers growing up in the company community and how families forged deep bonds. She attended the Lorenzo De Zavala Elementary School, the Baytown Mexican School that was originally funded by the Humble Oil and Refinery Company. Through the music program at the Baytown Mexican School, Martinez was able to travel the country as a player in the group La Tipica. She talks about the development of the Baytown Mexican School and how it served as the first ESL program. Martinez also discusses the role that Dr. Antonio Bañuelos played in the development of La Tipica, how La Tipica was portrayed as an "authentic" Mexican group from Jalisco, how she had to act like she did not know English while traveling throughout the nation, the Mexican musicians she encountered during her involvement in La Tipica, and how this female music group played for WWII bond drives at the behest of the Humble Oil and Refinery Company. Martinez addresses the role of Mexican celebrations, Baytown Mexican School's role in the creation of …
Date:
July 20, 2016
Creator:
Enriquez, Sandra & Martinez, Elvira
System:
The Portal to Texas History
Oral History Interview with Eva Benevides, July 20, 2016
Eva Benavides was born in 1952 in Baytown. She attended Lorenzo De Zavala Elementary, the Baytown Mexican School, and witnessed segregation in her youth. She experienced a culture shock when she attended the integrated Baytown Junior High. Inspired by her mother's and father's dedication to helping others, Benavides served as a Baytown City Councilwoman and became involved in the West Baytown Civic Association. The Luis Alfonso Torres police brutality case galvanized her and others to forge a cross-racial coalition (United Concerned Citizens of Baytown) to hold the police department accountable. Benavides talks about how Mexican Americans were situated in a segregated Baytown, the importance of Fiesta Patrias, her involvement in the PTO, her determination to become a city councilwoman and her experiences as an Mexican American female representative for a single member district, how she bodly held the Baytown Police Department accountable for the Luis Alfonso Torres case when other Mexican American representative refused to speak out, and cross-racial efforts to address police brutality. She also discusses gentrification and how her community lacks businesses and grocery stores, how she taught citizenship classes for many years, the role of Exxon in Baytown, and how city council representatives have to address race …
Date:
July 20, 2016
Creator:
Benavides, Eva; Enriquez, Sandra & Rodriguez, Samantha
System:
The Portal to Texas History