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Oral History Interview with Keely Briggs, 2015

Description: Transcript of an interview with Keely Briggs, a District 2Ora Denton City Council member, regarding the City of Denton Fracking Referendum. Ms. Briggs discusses how she became involved with the fracking referendum as well as how she perceives the breakdown of the democratic process in the Texas legislature.
Date: 2015
Creator: Ambercrombie, Ben & Briggs, Keely
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Oral History Interview with Kelly Sanders, August 8, 2013

Description: Interview with Kelly Sanders, owner of Mable Peabody’s Beauty Parlor and Chainsaw Repair, Denton’s first LGBT-friendly bar. She recalls her childhood in East Texas and in Gainesville, Texas; brief marriage to a man; coming out narrative; experiences managing bars in Dallas; experiences during the AIDS crisis; relationships with LGBT community; decision to open Mable Peabody’s, and experiences there.
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Date: August 8, 2013
Creator: Wisely, Karen & Sanders, Kelly
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Partner: UNT Oral History Program

Oral History Interview with Kenneth Pressley, April 21, 2015

Description: Interview with Kenneth Pressley, a rancher from Mansfield, Texas. Pressley discusses his family background, education and career, events on the day of desegregation at Mansfield High School in 1956, and race relations.
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Date: April 21, 2015
Creator: Middleton, Megan & Pressley, Kenneth
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Oral History Interview with Kevin Roden, October 29, 2015

Description: Audio interview with Kevin Rodan, a Denton City Councilman, regarding the City of Denton Fracking Referendum. Councilman Roden describes how he became informed about hydraulic fracturing and the effects the fracking referendum had on both the Denton City Council and the community as a whole.
Date: 2015
Duration: 5 minutes 53 seconds
Creator: Harrison, Leonya & Roden, Kevin
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Oral History Interview with Kevin Roden, October 29, 2015

Description: Transcript of an interview with Kevin Rodan, a Denton City Councilman, regarding the City of Denton Fracking Referendum. Councilman Roden describes how he became informed about hydraulic fracturing and the effects the fracking referendum had on both the Denton City Council and the community as a whole.
Date: 2015
Creator: Harrison, Leonya & Roden, Kevin
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Oral History Interview with Keynan Swanner, 2015

Description: Transcript of an interview with Keynan Swanner, a safety supervisor in the oil and gas industry from Houston, Texas, regarding the City of Denton Fracking Referendum. Mr. Swanner describes his job responsibilities and his personal views on hydraulic fracturing.
Date: 2015
Creator: Nelson, Andrew & Swanner, Keynan
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Oral History Interview with Keynan Swanner, 2015

Description: Audio interview with Keynan Swanner, a safety supervisor in the oil and gas industry from Houston, Texas, regarding the City of Denton Fracking Referendum. Mr. Swanner describes his job responsibilities and his personal views on hydraulic fracturing.
Date: 2015
Duration: 5 minutes
Creator: Nelson, Andrew & Swanner, Keynan
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Oral History Interview with Kim Phillips, March 20, 2013

Description: Interview with Kim Phillips, vice-president of the Denton Conventions and Visitors Bureau from Longview, Texas. Phillips discusses her love of Denton, her childhood and education, the music scene, the sense of community,, the CVB's work, local history, Quakertown, the Chamber of Commerce, the black and Hispanic communities, and the Confederate memorial. In appendix is a picture of Denton County Courthouse and the County Confederate Memorial.
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Date: March 20, 2013
Creator: Stallings, Chelsea & Phillips, Kim
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Oral History Interview with L. Clifford Davis, April 11, 2014

Description: Interview with L. Clifford Davis, an attorney known for his work for civil rights from Wilton, Arkansas. Davis discusses growing up in a segregated rural community, his education, time at Philander Smith College, integration in Arkansas, his efforts to gain admission to University of Arkansas Law School, becoming an attorney, reflections on civil rights legislation and its impact, practice in Fort Worth, his decision not to take part in direct action, cases fought, MLK's visit to DFW, supportin… more
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Date: April 11, 2014
Creator: Millier, Callie & David, L. Clifford
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Oral History Interview with Laura Nevada Weger, March 31, 2013

Description: Interview with Laura Nevada Weger, U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class, Cryptologic Technician, and Operation Iraqi Freedom Veteran, for the Women Veterans Oral History Project. The interview includes Weger's personal experiences of childhood, her family history of military service, reasons for joining the Navy, reaction from her family to her enlistment, training as a cryptological technician, first duty station at Whidbey Island, Washington. Weger talks about the lack of women in unit, rate of … more
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Date: March 31, 2013
Creator: Hedrick, Amy & Weger, Laura Nevada
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Oral History Interview with Linda Pina, April 8, 2013

Description: Interview with Linda Pina, a cousin of UNT interviewer Francis Bravo from Fort Worth, Texas, interviewed for for the Mexican American Women's Educational Experience project. Pina discusses growing up, school, her parents' divorce, and her own children and their education. In appendix is Bravo and Pina's family tree.
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Date: April 8, 2013
Creator: Bravo, Francis & Pina, Linda
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Oral History Interview with Lissette Moreno, October 17, 2015

Description: Interview with Lissette Moreno, a Mexican-American immigrant and activist from Monterrey, Mexico. Moreno discusses her childhood, moving to Dallas, family struggles with poverty, education, testifying in favor of the Texas Dream Act, college, reflections on immigration, the DREAM Act, being present for Pope Francis' 2015 address to the US Congress, and her faith.
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Date: October 17, 2015
Creator: Herman, Thomas & Moreno, Lissette
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Oral History Interview with Lorra Golden, February 9, 2013

Description: Interview with Lorra Golden, a Army Iraq War veteran from Gainesville, Texas. Golden discusses her family background, life before the military, joining the Army, training, struggles as an older enlistee and a lesbian in the service, deployment to Camp Taji, driving convoys, seeing combat, having PTSD, veterans, the chain of command, women in combat and female integration, and the repeal of Don't Ask, Don't Tell. In appendix is a chronology of Golden's service, and two photos of newspaper clippi… more
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Date: February 9, 2013
Creator: Hedrick, Amy & Golden, Lorra
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Oral History Interview with Louise Young and Vivienne Armstrong, February 24, 2010

Description: Interview with Louise Young and Vivienne Armstrong, longtime activists in the Dallas lesbian community. The interview includes Armstrong's personal experiences of childhood in Knoxville, Tennessee, New Jersey, and California, as well as her decision to study nursing and settle in Denver, Colorado, and her coming out narrative. The interview also includes Young's personal experiences of childhood in Ada, Oklahoma, her education at East Central State University and the University of Colorado, and… more
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Date: February 24, 2010
Creator: Wisely, Karen; Young, Louise & Armstrong, Vivienne
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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
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Date: July 25, 2012
Creator: Moye, Todd & Peterson, Mae Cora
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Oral History Interview with Mansell Smith, March 5, 2014

Description: Interview with Mansell Smith, a business-owner and longtime resident of Denton, Texas. Smith discusses his family background and growing up in Denton during the 1930s and 40s, running a floor covering business, housing in Denton, buying real estate, the black community and race relations, his hobbies, and his service in the National Guard.
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Date: March 5, 2014
Creator: Gurrola, Moisés & Smith, Mansell
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Oral History Interview with Marilyn Jean Johnson, March 24, 2014

Description: Interview with Marilyn Jean Johnson, an African-American resident of Fort Worth, Texas, from Champaign, Illinois, who moved to Texas during the civil rights era. Johnson, accompanied by her neighbor Exie Jean Alaman Morne'y, discusses the differences between life in Illinois and the segregated South, her first instances of discrimination, desegregation in Fort Worth, the Wright Amendment, Juneteenth, neighborhoods and housing, differences between Dallas and Fort Worth, persistent racism, and Ca… more
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Date: March 24, 2014
Creator: Travis, Sarah & Johnson, Marilyn Jean
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Oral History Interview with Marjorie Rae Lutkins Babcock, March 31, 2013

Description: Interview with Marjorie Rae Lutkins Babcock, Women's Army Corps Enlisted, Keypunch Operator, and Korean War-ere Veteran, for the Women Veterans Oral History Project. The interview includes Babcock's personal experiences of childhood in Michigan, basic training at Fort Lee, Virginia, duty assignments at Governor's Island, New York and Hanau, Germany, her temporary duty assignment at the Pentagon, her placement in the Veterans of Foreign War's Women's Auxiliary despite veteran status, and her bro… more
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Date: March 31, 2013
Creator: Hedrick, Amy & Babcock, Marjorie Rae Lutkins
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Oral History Interview with Mary Franklin, October 18, 2013

Description: Interview with Mary Franklin, an activist in the Dallas LGBT community from Riverhead, New York. Franklin discusses her family background, the neighborhood she grew up in in, dyslexia and struggles in school, her sexuality and coming out, the LGBT scene on Long Island, "gay" as a term, her first girlfriend, Anita Bryant, applying for a marriage license on National Coming Out Day, feminism and activism, moving to Dallas, the decriminalization of homosexuality in Texas, the HIV-AIDS epidemic, thr… more
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Date: October 18, 2013
Creator: Castillo, Vogel Vladimir & Franklin, Mary
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Oral History Interview with Marzena Ksiazkiewicz

Description: Interview with Marzena Kasiazkiewicz, a immigrant to the Dallas area from Kraków, Poland. Kasiazkiewicz discusses first coming to the United States, caring for her mother, her parents, growing up in communist Poland, deciding to stay in the US, adjusting to the American workplace, moving to Texas, her partner and children, the effect of 9/11 on immigrants, learning English, working in eye-care, and John Paul II.
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Date: December 6, 2012
Creator: McKee, David & Kasiazkiewicz, Marzena
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Oral History Interview with Matthew Fry, November 15, 2019

Description: Audio interview with Dr. Matthew Fry, a UNT professor, expert on environmental issues, and active member of the Denton Drilling Awareness Group (DAG). He discusses context for the Denton fracking ban and talks about the various articles that he's written about environmentalism and effects of fracking.
Date: November 15, 2019
Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 26 seconds
Creator: Binkiewicz, Kyle
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Oral History Interview with Michael Hennen, 2015

Description: Audio interview with Michael Hennen, president of the Denton Drilling Awareness Group, regarding the City of Denton Fracking Referendum. Mr. Hennen briefly reviews what hydraulic fracturing is, the purpose of Denton Drilling Awareness, and how he views the impacts fracking has had on the environment.
Date: 2015
Duration: 6 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Hennen, Michael
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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Oral History Interview with Michael Hennen, 2015

Description: Transcript of an interview with Michael Hennen, president of the Denton Drilling Awareness Group, regarding the City of Denton Fracking Referendum. Mr. Hennen briefly reviews what hydraulic fracturing is, the purpose of Denton Drilling Awareness, and how he views the impacts fracking has had on the environment.
Date: 2015
Creator: Hennen, Michael
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Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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