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Oral History Interview with Wendy Davis, October 7, 2022

Description: Interview with Wendy Davis, the executive director of Postpartum Support International from Portland, Oregon. Davis discusses her background in psychotherapy/psychology, becoming involved in the perinatal mental health field through her own experience with postpartum depression and anxiety, being helped by a doula, getting involved in maternal mental health groups, PSI and DAD, and the growth and development of PSI over time.
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Date: October 7, 2022
Creator: Moran, Rachel Louise & Davis, Wendy
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Scouting with the Buffalo Soldiers: Lieutenant Powhatan Clarke, Frederic Remington, and the Tenth U.S. Cavalry in the Southwest

Description: On a hot summerā€™s day in Montana, a daring frontier cavalry officer, Powhatan Henry Clarke, died at the height of his promising career. A member of the U.S. Military Academyā€™s Class of 1884, Clarke graduated dead last, and while short on academic application, he was long on charm and bravado. Clarke obtained a commission with the black troops of the Tenth Cavalry, earning his spurs with these ā€œBuffalo Soldiers.ā€ He evolved into a fearless field commander at the troop level, gaining glory and fā€¦ more
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Date: October 15, 2020
Creator: Langellier, John P. (John Phillip)
Partner: UNT Press
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Tire Shrinker to Dragster

Description: Collection of Texas, Jamaican and Irish folklore, including stories about drag racing, treasure hunting, frontier preachers, Irish storytellers, mock bidding in Jamaica, and more. The index begins on page 247.
Date: 2017
Creator: Hudson, Wilson M.
Partner: UNT Press

[Samuel French Award]

Description: Photograph of the Grover Lewis' Samuel French Award, held by UNT Special Collections. The award is a smooth, black rectangle. The top of it has a golden emblem of two masks and a dragon-like figure, the name of the award around inside it. At the bottom is a gold rectangle with the information on the presentation of the award. The Samuel French Award presented to North Texas State College in 1958 for Grover Lewis' performance at the National Collegiate Playwriting Contest for ā€œWait For Morning, ā€¦ more
Date: November 23, 2015
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Weeding Out the Undesirables: the Red Scare in Texas Higher Education, 1936-1958

Description: When the national Democratic Party began to transform to progressive era politics because of the New Deal, conservative reactionaries turned against the social welfare programs and used red scare tactics to discredit liberal and progressive New Deal Democrat professors in higher education. This process continued during the Second World War, when the conservatives in Texas lumped fascism and communism in order to anchor support and fire and threaten professors and administrators for advocating oā€¦ more
Date: August 2014
Creator: Bynum, Katherine E.
Partner: UNT Libraries

Oral History Interview with Clarence Broadnax, March 26, 2014

Description: Interview with Clarence Broadnax, a business owner and civil rights activist from Karnack, Texas. Broadnax discusses direct action challenging segregation at Dallas-area businesses, the unification of the Dallas civil rights movement, being jailed, civil rights figures, the Dallas Committee, segregation at sports games, becoming the first black hair stylist in the area, the Kennedy assassination, Barack Obama, nightlife and recreation in Karnack and Dallas, the Civil Rights Act, Dallas as a comā€¦ more
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Date: March 26, 2014
Creator: Fichera, Aaron & Broadnax, Clarence
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Campbell Read, July 1, 2013

Description: Interview with Campbell Read, a professor at Southern Methodist University and Dallas-area LGBT activist from Edinburgh, Scotland. Read discusses fighting police harassment, organizing a televised rebuttal to televangelist James Robison's condemnation of the gay community, important members of the community in Dallas and Denton, attending college in Lebanon and the United States, becoming involved with gay rights' activities at SMU, his family, and bird-watching. In appendix are pictures of demā€¦ more
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Date: July 1, 2013
Creator: Wisely, Karen & Read, Campbell
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Marilyn Bowling, May 25, 2013

Description: Audio log for a recording of an interview with Marilyn Bowling, former reservationist for Braniff International Airways, concerning her career in the airline industry. This interview was conducted as part of the Flying Voices oral history project.
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Date: May 25, 2013
Creator: Schnur, Abra & Bowling, Marilyn
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Pierina E. Mercado Beckman, April 19, 2011

Description: Interview with University of North Texas Professor Dr. Pierina E. Mercado Beckman, Mexican-born immigrant to Denton, Texas, for the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. The interview includes Beckman's personal experiences about childhood in Mexico City, relocating to the U.S., her decision to attend Graceland College in Lamoni, Iowa, her culture shock and homesickness, marriage to Curt Beckman, the decision to earn a Ph.D. in Spanish Literature from the University of Iowa, being hireā€¦ more
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Date: April 19, 2011
Creator: Clower, John & Beckman, Pierina E. Mercado
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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Office of Management and Budget: A Brief Overview

Description: This report provides a concise overview of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and its major functions, and highlights a number of issues influenced by OMB in matters of policy, budget, management, and OMB's internal operations.
Date: February 14, 2005
Creator: Brass, Clinton T.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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The Effects of Socio-Structural, Economic, and Race Considerations on Rates of Property Crime in the United States, 1958-1993

Description: This study investigates changes in rates of property crime in the United States from 1958 to 1993. Predictor variables include changes in rates of economic factors (inflation, technological/cyclical/frictional unemployment), arrest rates for property crimes disaggregated by race (ARPCDR), interaction of ARPCDR and technological unemployment, alcohol offenses, interaction of alcohol offenses and poverty, drug abuse violations, and interaction of drug abuse violations and poverty. Changes in poveā€¦ more
Date: May 1996
Creator: Ralston, Roy W.
Partner: UNT Libraries

Oral History Interview with C. C. Carlton, January 19, 1994

Description: Interview with C. Corky Carlton concerning his experiences as the public relations and advertising person for the Crater of Diamonds in Murfreesboro, Arkansas from 1958 to 1965.
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Date: January 19, 1994
Creator: Henderson, John C. & Carlton, C. Corky
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interviews with Sheila R. Allen, 1991

Description: Interview with Sheila Allen, an attorney and longtime resident of Hamilton Park from Dallas, Texas. Allen discusses attending school in Hamilton Park, integration in Richardson ISD and relations between white and black students, discrimination, attending East Texas State and Sam Houston University, struggles finding work afterwards, law school, church life, reflections on the Hamilton Park community, resisting "Buy Out," the Civic League, and thoughts on the future.
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Date: 1991-06/1991-09
Creator: Wilson, William H. & Allen, Sheila R.
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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[First Baptist Church of Hamilton Park congregation interview videos]

Description: Video footage provided by The Black Academy of Arts and Letters recorded during interviews with leaders and congregations members of The First Baptist Church of Hamilton Park. The footage was shot in the main church and interviewed male members of the church where they state their name, role in the church, history with the congregation, and answered one to two questions asked by the interviewer. The video includes three founding members that at the time were children but now serve the communityā€¦ more
Date: [1990..1991]
Duration: 12 minutes 16 seconds
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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