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Oral History Interview with Robert Cook, October 19, 2012

Description: Interview with Army veteran Robert Cook. The interview includes Cook's personal experiences in the European Theater as well as experiences as a prisoner-of-war of the Germans in Stalag 17 and post-war life. The interview also includes an appendix with a photograph.
Date: October 19, 2012
Creator: Lane, Peter B. & Cook, Robert
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Vladislava Alaytseva, November 26, 2012

Description: Interview with Vladislava Alaytseva, Uzbekistani-born immigrant to Dallas, Texas, for the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. The interview includes Alaytseva's personal experiences of childhood in Uzbekistan, moving to the U.S., transitioning to the American school system, her first impressions the U.S., and the culture shock in America. Additionally, Alaytseva talks about the transition of Uzbekistan from a Soviet satellite to an independent Muslim nation, her mother's family in Ru… more
Date: November 26, 2012
Creator: Brooks, David & Alaytseva, Vladislava
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Cece Cox, March 14, 2012

Description: Interview with Cece Cox, Executive Director of Resource Center of Dallas and longtime activist in the LGBT community. The interview includes Cox's personal experiences of childhood in Bartlesville, Oklahoma, her college years at Northwestern University, and coming out the family, friends, and co-workers. Cox talks about the awareness of her sexual orientation, the supportive reactions of family, her decision to move to Dallas, Texas for a job, her involvement in the Dallas LGBT community, thoug… more
Date: March 14, 2012
Creator: Mims, Michael & Cox, Cece
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Frances Tarlton Farenthold, June 16, 2012

Description: Interview with Frances "Sissy" Tarlton Farenthold, attorney, activist, former Texas state representative, and candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Texas (1972, 1974). She discusses her childhood in a liberal, politically active family in Corpus Christi, Texas; experiences with racial segregation and discrimination; experiences in Corpus Christi public schools, the Hockaday School for Girls, Vassar College, and University of Texas Law School. Her father (Benjamin Tarlton Jr.)’… more
Date: June 16, 2012
Creator: Fields-Hawkins, Stephanie & Farenthold, Frances (Frances Tarlton), 1926-
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Charles Weldon Burgoon, May 23, 2012

Description: Interview with Charles Weldon Burgoon, life-time Denton resident and owner of Weldon's Saddle Shop. The interview includes Burgoon's experiences as a child in Denton, his genealogy, and Denton city and country history. Burgoon gives details about area rodeos, schooling in Denton, his summer job mowing lawns, experience with country living, and other various jobs including leather-working and tooling. He talks about the lack of shotgun shells and metal bathtubs during the Second World War, the c… more
Date: May 23, 2012
Creator: Fox, Lisa A. & Burgoon, Charles Weldon
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Mae Cora Peterson, July 25, 2012

Description: Interview with South Carolina-born African American resident of Fort Worth, Texas, Mae Cora Peterson, a non-profit administrator and educator. The interview includes Peterson's personal experiences of childhood on the South Carolina State College campus in Orangeburg, South Carolina, life under the Jim Crow laws, working at Border Mission, her move to and impressions of Fort Worth under Jim Crow laws, graduate school at the University of Michigan, and colorism. Peterson talks about her husband'… more
Date: July 25, 2012
Creator: Moye, Todd & Peterson, Mae Cora
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Giancarlo Quijano, October 11, 2012

Description: Interview with Giancarlo Quijano, West German-born Colombian immigrant to Denton, Texas, for the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. The interview includes Quijano's personal experiences from his childhood in West Germany, life in Colombia during the 1990s violence, his family's immigration to Texas, his expectations of the U.S., and the subsequent culture shock. Quijano talks about the transition to American life, attending college as an international student, his experiences with … more
Date: October 11, 2012
Creator: Duque, Samantha & Quijano, Giancarlo
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Hardy Haberman, April 15, 2012

Description: Transcript of an interview with Hardy Haberman, film producer, web designer, and longtime Dallas LGBT activist, for the Dallas LGBT Oral History Project. Haberman discusses his childhood in Dallas, Texas; coming out; LGBT Dallas history; LGBT activism; AIDS crisis in Dallas; current work in web design and marketing; current activism; Cathedral of Hope.
Date: April 15, 2012
Creator: Wisely, Karen & Haberman, Hardy, 1950-
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Ada Fabiana Duque, October 20, 2012

Description: Interview with Ada Fabiana Duque, Colombian-born immigrant to Rockwall, Texas, for the DFW Metroplex Immigrants Oral History Project. The interview includes Duque's family background and the risks that accompanied being financially successful in Colombia during the Colombian civil war, the guerrilla violence in Colombia in the 1980s and 1990s, her experience as an exchange student to Illinois in 1992, her expectations about the U.S., education and employment in food engineering, the process of … more
Date: October 20, 2012
Creator: Bundschuh, Molly & Duque, Ada Fabiana
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Carlos Puente and Maria Esther Puente, March 15, 2012

Description: Transcript of an interview with Carlos Puente and Maria Esther Puente, Fort Worth-based Chicano political activists. They discuss the Raza Unida Party in Tarrant County and throughout Texas; efforts to improve the economic, social and political aspects of the Chicano community; Carlos Puente's service on Fort Worth City Council; Roadblocks Mexican-Americans faced in campaigning and running for political office, city council and school board, particularly in the 1970s and 1980s; Challenges of he… more
Date: March 15, 2012
Creator: Martinez, Peter C.; Puente, Carlos (Activist) & Puente, Maria Esther (Activist)
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Kamran Khadivar, December 9, 2012

Description: Transcript of an interview with Kamran Khadivar, a civil/structural engineer, businessman, and Iranian-born immigrant to Plano, Texas. Khadivar discusses his childhood in Shiraz, Iran; coming to America at fourteen by himself; living with extended family in Texas; adjusting to America and learning English; parents’ escape from Iran during the Iranian Revolution; education in America; work experience; continuing Iranian traditions in own family; opportunities provided in America.
Date: December 9, 2012
Creator: Ferguson, J. Michael & Khadivar, Kamran, 1960-
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview With Thanh Kim Huynh, December 8, 2012

Description: Transcript of an interview with Thanh Kim Huynh, Vietnamese-born immigrant to Carrollton, Texas for the DFW Metroplex Immigration Oral History Project. Huynh discusses concerning his childhood in Vietnam; memories of the Vietnam War; experiences as a helicopter pilot for the South Vietnamese Army; evacuation to Guam; transfer to the U.S.; life in America; culture shock; settlement in Dallas-Fort Worth area; immigration process as a refugee; considering America “home;” Dallas Vietnamese communit… more
Date: December 8, 2012
Creator: Stallings, Chelsea & Huynh, Thanh Kim, 1953-
Item Type: Refine your search to only Book
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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