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Black History, Oral History, and Genealogy

Description: Sound recording of Alex Haley's conference presentation at the Seventh National Colloquium on Oral History at the Thompson Conference Center at the University of Texas at Austin. Haley is the author of 'The Autobiography of Malcolm X' and 'Roots.'
Date: November 10, 1972
Duration: 1 hour 55 minutes 28 seconds
Creator: Oral History Association
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Oral History Defined and Oral History and Black Studies

Description: Sound recording of a panel discussion at the 7th Annual Oral History Colloquium held at the Thompson Conference Center Auditorium, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. The panel "Oral History Defined" is presented by Lyle Brown from the Dept. of Political Science, Baylor University, Eugenia Meyer, from the Instituto Nacional de Anthropologia e Historia, Mexico City. The panel “Oral History and Black Studies” is presented by Lawrence Goodwin from the Dept. of History, Duke University, A… more
Date: November 12, 1971
Duration: 56 minutes 46 seconds
Creator: Oral History Association
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Oral History Interview with Alma Clark, September 29, 2006

Description: 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 intervi… more
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Date: June 29, 2006
Creator: Yancey, Sherelyn & Clark, Alma
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Ben Bynum, September 22, 1971

Description: Interview with Ben Bynum, a public relations consultant and a Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives from Amarillo. Bynum shares his experiences and personal views as a member of the Regular and First Special Sessions of the Sixty-second Legislature. He also discusses revenue bills, the corporate profits tax, the Sharpstown stock-fraud scandal, legislative ethics, the "Dirty Thirty", appropriations, redistricting, and his personal legislation.
Date: September 22, 1971
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Bynum, Ben
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Grant Jones, August 21, 1979

Description: Interview with Grant Jones, an insurance executive and a Democratic member of the Texas Senate from Abilene, concerning his experiences and personal views as a member of the Sixty-sixth Legislature. Jones discusses his appointment as chairman of the Finance Committee, the Legislative Budget Board and the budget-making process, Comptroller Bob Bullock, Governor William Clements, the appropriations bill, tax relief legislation, public school financing, the Peveto bill, "Killer Bees," and consumer… more
Date: August 21, 1979
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Jones, Grant
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Alonzo W. Jamison, July 26, 1967

Description: Interview with former Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives Alonzo W. Jamison, a college professor and farmer-stockman from Denton, Texas. The interview includes Jamison's experiences and personal views on the Sixtieth Legislature and activities on the House Education Committee.
Date: October 31, 1967
Creator: Kamp, H. W. & Jamison, Alonzo W.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Alonzo W. Jamison, July 30, 1968

Description: Interview with Alonzo W. Jamison, a former Democratic member of the Texas House of Representatives from Denton, Texas. The interview includes Jamison's experiences as a member of the Special Session of the Sixtieth Legislature. It also includes his personal views on appropriations, revenue bills, the budget-making process, the legislature's relationship with Governor John Connally, liquor legislation, and urban-rural conflict.
Date: February 6, 1970
Creator: Kamp, H. W. & Jamison, Alonzo W.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with James J. Kaster, February 25, 1982

Description: Transcript of an interview with James Kaster, legislative liaison to Governor William Clements, concerning his experiences and personal views as the governor's liaison during Sixty-seventh Texas Legislature. This interview was conducted in 1982 for the Texas Political History Oral History Project.
Date: February 25, 1982
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Kaster, James J., V, 1933-2005
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History and Black Studies

Description: Sound recording of Lyle Brown, Eugenia Miller, Lawrence Goodwin, and Ann Allen Shockley speaking at the Oral History Association's 7th National Colloquium at the Thompson Conference Center, University of Texas at Austin in Austin, Texas.
Date: November 12, 1972
Duration: 1 hour 56 minutes 33 seconds
Creator: Oral History Association
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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What is the Future of the Oral History Association?

Description: Sound recording of a presentation from the 7th Annual Oral History Colloquium held at the Thompson Conference Center Auditorium, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas. John Wickman, Director, Dwight D. Eisenhower Library and President-elect of the Oral History Association presented at the Ambassador Room, Villa Capri Motel, Austin, TX.
Date: November 12, 1972
Duration: 15 minutes 05 seconds
Creator: Oral History Association
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

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

Description: 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 p… more
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Date: {1991-09-19,1991-11-05}
Creator: Wilson, William H. & Holmes, Zan W., Jr.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interviews with Allan Shivers, 1966-1968

Description: Interview with Allan Shivers, a former state senator, lieutenant governor, and governor of Texas, 1950-57. The interview includes Shivers' observations on political career of Lyndon Johnson, the Stevenson-Johnson senatorial race of 1948, the Stevenson-Eisenhower presidential campaign of 1952, the Johnson presidential race of 1960, Texas Democratic politics from 1952-56, and the Fifty-third State Legislature. The interview also includes his opinion on the governor's role in state party organizat… more
Date: July 24, 1969
Creator: Brewer, Thomas B.; Gantt, Fred & Shivers, Allan
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Weldon Hart, 1966-1967

Description: Interviews with Weldon Hart, a public relations executive and executive director of the Texas Good Roads Association. The interviews includes Hart's experiences as press secretary and appointments secretary to former Governors Beauford Jester, 1947-50, and Allan Shivers, 1950-57; head of the Texas Employment Commission; organization of a Texas political machine; lobbying for the highway construction industries of Texas. The interviews took place on three separate dates: August 8, 1966, February… more
Date: December 18, 1967
Creator: Brewer, Thomas B.; Odom, E. Dale & Hart, Weldon
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Ghent Sanderford, 1967

Description: Interview with Ghent Sanderford, attorney. The interview includes Sanderford's experiences as private secretary to Governor Miriam A. Ferguson, 1925-27 and 1933-35, his relationship with James E. Ferguson, as well as comments about Governors Pat Neff, Dan Moody, James Allred, W. Lee O'Daniel, and Coke Stevenson. The interview also includes his opinions on the Johnson-Stevenson senatorial race of 1948 and the impeachment of James Ferguson.
Date: May 4, 1968
Creator: Odom, E. Dale & Sanderford, Ghent
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Rena Pederson, April 5, 2012

Description: Interview with Rena Pederson, a former journalist in Dallas, Texas. The interview includes biographical information about her life growing up, her educational background, her career with The Dallas Morning News and other newspapers, the books she has written, and her work in communications and public affairs.
Date: April 5, 2012
Creator: Harding, Anne; Dann, Lori & Pederson, Rena
Partner: UNT Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism

Oral History Interview with Evilu Pridgeon, October 24, 2015

Description: Transcript of an interview with Evilu Pridgeon, educator and longtime Dallas LGBT activist, for the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Pridgeon discusses her childhood in Austin, Texas; education; work history; coming out; Dallas LGBT history; AIDS crisis in Dallas; LGBT activism; The Dallas Way; diversity in the gay community.
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Date: October 24, 2015
Creator: Wisely, Karen & Pridgeon, Evilu, 1949-
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interviews with Ed Gossett, June-August 1969

Description: Interview with Judge Ed Gossett, judge of the Criminal District Court in Dallas, Texas. In the first interview, Gossett discusses his childhood in Louisana and Texas, his undergraduate education at the University of Texas at Austin, his time as a lawyer and as district attorney for the 46th judicial district, and his election to Congress in 1938. The second interview includes Gossett's discussion of his tenure as a Congressman.
Date: 1969-06/1969-08
Creator: Kamp, H. W. & Gossett, Ed Lee, 1902-1990
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interviews with Mrs. Dan Moody, 1968

Description: Interview with Mrs. Dan Moody, wife of former Texas Governor Dan Moody. The interview includes reminiscences of her husband's political career, the Al Smith campaign of 1928, the Stevenson-Johnson senatorial race of 1948, and excerpts from her Mansion Diary.
Date: August 16, 1968
Creator: Gantt, Fred & Moody, Daniel
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History - Karen Hughes

Description: This article is a short biography of journalist and political advisor Karen Hughes, based on an oral history discussing her childhood, education, and career in journalism and advising within the Republican Party.
Date: 2012
Creator: Riddell, Brad & Harper, Savannah
Partner: UNT Frank W. and Sue Mayborn School of Journalism

Oral History Interviews with Raymond E. "Tex" Roberts, 1990

Description: Interviews with Tex Roberts, executive director of the Texas Osteopathic Medical Association from Fort Worth, Texas. Roberts discusses his early career in journalism, joining TOMA, his duties as executive director, issues with the California Medical Association and Texas Medical Association, work with the Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine and establishing a school, related Texas state legislation, various figures he worked with, and the Medical Practice Act.
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Date: June 20, 1990
Creator: Rafes, Richard & Roberts, Raymond E. (Tex)
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

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

Description: Interview with Zan Holmes Jr., a Methodist pastor and resident of Hamilton Park from Waco, Texas. Holmes discusses his family background, education, seminary, moving to Hamilton Park, building a church, political activity, local development and related issues, youth activities, the schools, and desegregation.
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Date: 1991-09/1991-11
Creator: Wilson, William H. & Holmes, Zan W., Jr.
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Oral History Interview with Richard Schultz, April 29, 1990

Description: Interview with Richard Schultz, a United States Navy veteran from Saint Louis, Missouri, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while aboard the cruiser USS New Orleans.
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Date: April 29, 1990
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Schultz, Richard
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Albert Kamenicky, April 27, 1990

Description: Interview with Albert Kamenicky, a United States Navy veteran from Rogers, Texas, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while aboard the cruiser USS Phoenix.
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Date: April 27, 1990
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Kamenicky, Albert
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Oral History Interview with Lester Robinson, April 23, 1988

Description: Interview with Lester Robinson, a United States Navy veteran from Tulsa, Oklahoma, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while stationed at Fort Island Naval Air Station as a member of VP-23.
Date: April 23, 1988
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Robinson, Lester E.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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