Oral History Interview with Keely Briggs, 2015

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Audio interview with Keely Briggs, a District 2 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.

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Ambercrombie, Ben & Briggs, Keely 2015.

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This audio recording is part of the collection entitled: Denton Fracking Referendum Collection and was provided by the UNT Libraries Special Collections to The Portal to Texas History, a digital repository hosted by the UNT Libraries. It has been viewed 40 times, with 4 in the last month. More information about this recording can be viewed below.

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Audio interview with Keely Briggs, a District 2 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.

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1 sound recording (8 min., 37 sec.) : digital

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This oral history was conducted as a class assignment for English 4650: Literature and Environment: Chicana Feminist Voices, taught by Dr. Priscilla S. Ybarra in Fall 2015 on the UNT campus.

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  • ENGL 4650 Literature and Environment: Chicana Feminist Voices, University of North Texas, Fall 2015

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  • Preferred Citation: Denton Fracking Referendum Collection (AR0861), University of North Texas Special Collections

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Denton Fracking Referendum Collection

News and viewpoints related to the Fracking Referendum passed in the city of Denton, Texas on November 4, 2014. Materials include a compilation of web pages crawled in late 2014 and a collection of oral histories conducted in Fall 2015 by UNT students.

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Oral History Interview with Keely Briggs, 2015

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.

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Ambercrombie, Ben & Briggs, Keely. Oral History Interview with Keely Briggs, 2015, audio recording, 2015; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc991344/: accessed March 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.

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