Texas Oral History Collection - 6 Matching Results
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- Oral History Interview with Alexander Bate, September 19, 1986
- Interview with retired schoolteacher Alexander Bate. The interview includes Bate's personal experiences about the African American business community in Sherman, Texas, and the lynching of George Hughes. Bate also talks about being an African-American educator, and local race relations in Sherman.
- Oral History Interview with Joe Nelson Box, October 19, 1982
- Interview with Joe Nelson Box about the history of Grapevine, Texas.
- Oral History Interview with Mary Virginia Wall Simmons, March 19, 1987
- Interview with Mary Virginia Wall Simmons about the history of Grapevine, Texas.
- Oral History Interview with Freddy Rios, March 19, 1987
- Partial recording of an interview with Freddy Rios, a veteran who served in the Vietnam War during 1967 and 1968. He discusses his experiences as a soldier, including being wounded and the events that led to him receiving the Distinguished Service Medal.
- Oral History Interview with Yuri Fukui, October 19, 1980
- Interview with Yuri Fukui, a second generation Japanese-American from Oakland, California, about her experience pursuing higher education during the attack on Pearl Harbor and subsequent internment. Fukui discusses the discrimination she experienced in her daily life, struggles faced by her parents, who owned a local business, and life in the internment camps.
- Oral History Interview with Joe C. Turner, September 19, 1989
- Interview with Joe C. Turner, a United States Navy veteran from Merryville, Louisiana, regarding his experiences and memories of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor of December 7, 1941 while aboard the destroyer tender USS Dobbin.