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[Wesley Phelps interview with Chris Haight, October 21, 2022]

Description: Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on October 21st, 2022 in Houston, Texas. In this interview, Chris Haight discusses the lives and deaths of John Griffin and Tommy Lee Tremble, two gay men who were close friends and roommates in Dallas in the 1980s. Haight discusses their negative treatment through newspaper coverage following their murders and the significance of applying humanity to their cases. Haight continues on to describe the trial and arrest of R… more
Date: October 21, 2022
Duration: 40 minutes
Creator: Phelps, Wes
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Wesley Phelps interview with Linda Morales, September 30, 2022]

Description: Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on September 30th, 2022 in Houston, Texas. Phelps interviews Linda Morales on her life as a dedicated activist and plaintiff in Morales v. Texas. She speaks on her experiences with racism and discrimination in the LGBT community in Houston, and her creation of the Latina lesbian AMIGA organization. Morales also speaks on discrimination faced by the LGBT community due to penal code 21.06, a discriminatory sodomy law which… more
Date: September 30, 2022
Duration: 45 minutes 10 seconds
Creator: Phelps, Wes
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Wesley Phelps interview with Marco Roberts, September 22, 2022]

Description: Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on September 22nd, 2022 in Houston, Texas. Phelps interviews Marco Roberts on his involvement with the Gay Student Services organization at Texas A&M University. Roberts speaks on the lawsuit Gay Student Services v. Texas A&M University, through which his group fought to be recognized as an official Texas A&M student organization. Roberts, as former president of the Gay Student Services, speaks on his experiences with po… more
Date: September 22, 2022
Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 27 seconds
Creator: Phelps, Wes
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Wesley Phelps interview with Craig Washington, August 26, 2022]

Description: Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded on August 26th, 2022 in Houston, TX. Phelps interviews former United States Representative Craig Washington on his experiences with the Texas State Legislature. Washington begins by discussing a penal code which came to the legislature in 1973, exploring his involvement in rewriting and codifying said penal code. Specifically, Washington speaks on his attempts to repeal sodomy laws found under code 21.06 from state legis… more
Date: August 26, 2022
Duration: 41 minutes 57 seconds
Creator: Phelps, Wes
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[University of Houston (UH) Music Library collection of music scores on a bookshelf]

Description: Photograph of a white bookshelf with five shelves total. The second, third and fourth levels contain a collection of music scores. The second shelf to the top is nearly full of mainly hardback music scores, whereas the shelf under it has a few dozen less, and the shelf second to the bottom has about a dozen. Most of the music scores are brown, black or beige, but a few are blue, green, yellow, and red.
Date: November 5, 2021
Creator: Larsen, Eric
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[University of Houston (UH) Music Library furniture and stacks]

Description: Photograph of a study area located in the University of Houston's (UH) Music Library. The study area is situated to the left of the book stacks or bookshelves and is right next to the building's windows that receive an abundance of natural light. The library's study area contains tall wooden desks and red and silver bar stool type chairs, large wooden tables with brown standard chairs and wooden benches, and one cushioned red seat.
Date: October 26, 2021
Creator: Larsen, Eric
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[A quarto for an INFO 5450 Rare Books project]

Description: Video of Lance Wilbanks, a UNT (Houston Program) library and information science graduate student, demonstrating a quarto for an INFO 5450 Rare Books project. The video was recorded in Houston, Texas at Mr. Wilbanks' apartment and submitted to the class during the 2021 Fall semester. The project required students to make their own quarto and explain its salient and important features. Mr. Wilbanks chose to use a short story from Winnie the Pooh, "Winnie the Pooh and Some Bees", as the mock cont… more
Date: Autumn 2021
Duration: 2 minutes 16 seconds
Creator: Wilbanks, Lance
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[COVID-19 signage on Mandell Street in the Montrose neighborhood of Houston, Texas]

Description: Photograph of a red banner with a picture of University of St. Thomas' lion mascot wearing a mask and emboldened white and yellow text stating, "Let's take care of each other. #CELTNATION." The banner is hanging off an outdoor skywalk balcony on campus.
Date: April 18, 2021
Creator: Thomas, Joshlyn
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[COVID-19 signage on Mandell Street in the Montrose neighborhood of Houston, Texas]

Description: Photograph of a laminated paper sign stapled to an electrical post. The sign has a picture of a blue medical mask in the center with white text on it an pink text above and below it. The sign reads, "Pandemic! WARNING! Pandemic! WARNING Pandemic HOUSTON, WE HAVE A PROBLEM, Pandemic! WARNING! Pandemic! WARNING Pandemic, Do what all the medical professionals tell you. What the world already does - wear your mask. DON'T listen to the Liar-In-Chief. Always use a mask to protect yourself & neighbors! more
Date: April 18, 2021
Creator: Thomas, Joshlyn
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

Changing Perspectives: Black-Jewish Relations in Houston during the Civil Rights Era

Description: Changing Perspectives charts the pivotal period in Houston’s history when Jewish and Black leadership eventually came together to work for positive change. This is a story of two communities, both of which struggled to claim the rights and privileges they desired. Previous scholars of Southern Jewish history have argued that Black-Jewish relations did not exist in the South. However, during the 1930s to the 1980s, Jews and Blacks in Houston interacted in diverse and oftentimes surprising ways. … more
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Date: March 2021
Creator: Schottenstein, Allison E.
Partner: UNT Libraries
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The Role of Faith-Based Congregations during Disaster Response and Recovery: A Case Study of Katy, Texas

Description: When governments are unable or unwilling to provide necessary relief to communities, local faith-based congregations (FBCs) step in and fill the gap. Though shown to provide for so many needs following disaster, FBCs have largely been left out of the institutional emergency management cycle. The aim of this study was to explore the role of FBCs in the disaster response and recovery process and investigate how recovery impacts FBCs. The primary objective of this study is to gain a better underst… more
Date: December 2020
Creator: Elliott, Julie R
Partner: UNT Libraries
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