Oral History Interview with Jew Don Boney, July 27, 2016

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Jew Don Boney, Jr. was born in 1951 in Temple. His first experience with segregation was when his mother was initally denied entry into Scott and White Hospital when she went into labor with Boney. His parents were educators and his father wrote a dissertation on the racial biases in standarized testing while pursuing a doctorate in Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Boney relocated to Austin in 1966 and attended the University of Texas at Austin in the Fall of 1969. He became involved in Black-Brown student activism at this time. After spending a few years … continued below

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Boney, Jew Don; Enriquez, Sandra & Rodriguez, Samantha July 27, 2016.

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Jew Don Boney, Jr. was born in 1951 in Temple. His first experience with segregation was when his mother was initally denied entry into Scott and White Hospital when she went into labor with Boney. His parents were educators and his father wrote a dissertation on the racial biases in standarized testing while pursuing a doctorate in Educational Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Boney relocated to Austin in 1966 and attended the University of Texas at Austin in the Fall of 1969. He became involved in Black-Brown student activism at this time. After spending a few years in radio and TV, Boney worked for the Urban League and became the Chairman of the National Black United Front Chapter in Houston. He later served as a city councilman for District D and a Mayor Pro Tem. Boney dedicated three years to the Free Clarence Bradley Campaign in order to exonerate a man falsely accused of the rape and murder of a white woman in Conroe, spent time bridging African and U.S. relations, advanced economic initiatives in Africa, and secured grants to process the Mickey Leland Papers at Texas Southern University while he served as the Associate Director for the Mickey Leland Center. He talks about stark instances of discrimination, how Black and Brown students forged coalitions based on mutual interests at UT, the desegregation of the Houston Independent School District and how it affected students of color, learning leadership skills through the Texas Metropolitian Organization, the National Black Independent Political Party, how Mickey Leland forged Black and Brown relations, and his participation in the anti-apartheid movement in South Africa. Boney also discusses the process of making the Free Clarence Lee Bradley an international campaign, the role of the National Black United Front, how he sought to create leaders through the Mickey Leland Center at TSU, and his latest work in documenting the Black Power struggle and connecting it to present-day struggles through the Black Power Chronicles Project.

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Boney, Jew Don; Enriquez, Sandra & Rodriguez, Samantha. Oral History Interview with Jew Don Boney, July 27, 2016, video, July 27, 2016; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth987534/: accessed December 2, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library.

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