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Oral History Interview with A. W. Dupree, July 23-August 16, 1990

Description: Interview with A. W. Dupree Jr., resident of Hamilton Park neighborhood in Dallas, Texas, 1966-90. Dupree discusses his youth in Dallas; service in U.S. military in World War II; musical career; decision to buy home in Hamilton Park and experiences as a resident; home improvements; church activities; desegregation of Hamilton Park School; Pacesetter; commercial encroachment; the “Buy Out.”
Date: 1990-07-23/1990-08-16
Creator: Wilson, William & Dupree, A. W., Jr.
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Oral History Interview with Alfred Czerner, January 16, 1990

Description: Interview with Alfred Czerner, a Army WWII veteran and German-Jewish expatriate from Frankfurt-am-Main. Czerner discusses growing up in the crises of the Weimar Republic, politics at the time, his parents' background, the Jewish community in Frankfurt and Jewish identity, his father's unemployment after the rise of the Nazis, fleeing Germany and moving to Brooklyn in 1938, news of concentration camps, work in New York, attending school and perfecting his English, becoming an Army intelligence o… more
Date: January 16, 1990
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Czerner, Alfred
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Oral History Interview with Barbara J. Darden, 1990-1991

Description: Interview with Barbara J. Darden, a woman who moved into the rich neighborhood, Hamilton Park, Dallas from the project area at the time of racial desegregation. She talks about her experiences growing up, getting her nursing degree, moving to Hamilton Park (a primarily African American neighborhood), and her experiences living there.
Date: {1990-12-13,1991-10-26}
Creator: Wilson, William H. & Darden, Barbara J.
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Oral History Interview with C. Ray Stokes, July 9, 1990

Description: Transcript of an interview with Charles Ray Stokes, former Director of Development and Curator of Special Collections for Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine. Stokes discusses his professional background and the creation of TCOM. This interview was conducted for Richard Rafe's dissertation "The Historical Development of Texas College of Osteopathic Medicine as a State Medical School, 1960-1975."
Date: July 9, 1990
Creator: Rafes, Richard & Stokes, C. Ray
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Oral History Interview with Clarence Shockey, October 7, 1990

Description: Interview with Clarence Shockey, a farmer and former member of the Civilian Conservation Corps from Ridgeway, Texas, regarding his experiences and memories of participating in the CCC during the Great Depression. It includes an appendix with newspaper clippings about Shockey's efforts to host a reunion.
Date: October 7, 1990
Creator: Dickey, Richard C. & Shockey, Clarence
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Oral History Interview with David Thomas, April 28, 1990

Description: Interview with David Thomas, a Marine WWII veteran from Takio, Missouri, who was at the Attack on Pearl Harbor. Thomas discusses joining the Marine Corps in 1940, assignment to Kaneohe Naval Air Station, life and work there, the attack on December 7th, the immediate aftermath, casualties and damage to Kaneohe, leaving the Marines to attempt becoming a naval aviator, and being drafted into the Army as a bomber navigator.
Date: April 28, 1990
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Thomas, David
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Oral History Interview with Frank McKinley, April 16, 1990

Description: Interview with Frank McKinley concerning his career in music at the University of North Texas, where he was director of choral music at the School of music at North Texas State College and North Texas State University, which became UNT. McKinley discusses his educational background, musical training, and his colleagues.
Date: April 16, 1990
Creator: Spencer, David & McKinley, Frank
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Oral History Interview with Garlen W. Eslick, April 27, 1990

Description: Interview with Garlen W. Eslick, a Navy WWII veteran from Milan, Missouri who served aboard the USS Oklahoma (BB-37) when it was sunk at Pearl Harbor. Eslick discusses joining the Navy and basic training, assignment to the Oklahoma, accommodations aboard, the food, the crew, liberty, being bombed and torpedoed, the Oklahoma capsizing, being trapped inside the ship, rescue, work after the attack, and service aboard the Saratoga (CV-3).
Date: April 27, 1990
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Eslick, Garlen W.
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Oral History Interview with Hanna K Ulatowska, February 16, 1990

Description: Interview with Hanna L Ulatowska, a Polish linguist and Holocaust survivor from Warsaw. Ulatowska discusses the invasion of Poland, witnessing bombings and atrocities, life in Warsaw after the invasion, the life of Jews, the Warsaw Uprising, being forced out of the city by German forces to Auschwitz-Birkenau, survival there, Josef Mengele, her family, escaping from Birkenau, Russian liberation, and reflections on her experiences.
Date: February 16, 1990
Creator: Rosen, Keith G. & Ulatowska, Hanna K.
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Oral History Interview with Hilda Rubinstein Green, January 2, 1990

Description: Interview with Hilda Rubinstein-Green, a Holocaust survivor from Memel, East Prussia (now Klaipėda, Lithuania). Green discusses growing up in Memel, the Jewish community, her family background, Hitler, fleeing to Krottingen, returning to Memel to destroy valuables so the Germans couldn't take them, moving to Kovno, having a sympathetic German officer as a tenant, moving to the ghetto, life there, executions, labor, suicides, internment at Stutthof, her mother's declining health, a forced march … more
Date: January 2, 1990
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Rubinstein-Green, Hilda
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Oral History Interview with Inga Czerner, January 4, 1990

Description: Interview with Inga Czerner (née Israelski), a German-Jewish expatriate from Frankfurt-am-Main. Czerner discusses Hitler's rise to power and the initial effect of Nazi power on Jews, her father's departure for Russia, growing up in Frankfurt, growing antisemitism, the Gestapo, her schooling, the Kristallnacht, hiding, fleeing Germany to England without her mother, loss of her family members to the Holocaust, learning her father survived the war, moving to the US and marrying her husband Albert,… more
Date: January 4, 1990
Creator: Rosen, Keith & Czerner, Ingaborg Rosa
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Oral History Interview with Inga Pennock, January 27, 1990

Description: Interview with Inga Pennock, a Holocaust survivor from Berlin. Pennock discusses her family background, experiencing antisemitism and the start of Nazi rule, trying to leave Germany and hiding, increasing violence, Kristallnacht, losing family, fleeing to Shanghai, Japanese occupation and the ghetto, working as a nurse for the Japanese, living conditions, liberation, and life afterwards.
Date: January 27, 1990
Creator: Rosen, Keith G. & Pennock, Inga
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Oral History Interview with James W. Huffman, April 11, 1990

Description: Interview with James W. Huffman, a Navy WWII veteran and POW from Los Angeles, California, who survived the sinking of the USS Houston (CA-30). Huffman discusses joining the Navy; service aboard the Houston and changes in training as war neared; early operations in the war; the Battle of Sundra Strait and sinking; surviving in Java; capture by the Japanese; various experiences in internment at Bicycle Camp in Batavia, Changi Camp in Singapore, Thanbyuzayat, several camps on the Burma Railway, a… more
Date: April 11, 1990
Creator: Marcello, Ronald E. & Huffman, James W.
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