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Oral History Interview with Perri McCary, July 28, 2016

Perri "P.K." McCary was born in 1953 in Texarkana. She grew-up in a ethnically diverse community in Alamo Garden, New Mexico and later lived near Prairie View A&M University when her father obtained a teaching position in the Industrial Education Department. McCary's parents gave her the tools to resist discrimination by exhibiting a strong sense of self and for confronting racist acts in front of her. She would opt to attend Jack Yates High School when her family moved to Houston because of th… more

Date: July 28, 2016

Duration: 1 hour 49 minutes 56 seconds

Creator: Enriquez, Sandra; Rodriguez, Samantha & McCary, Perri

Item Type: Video

Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library

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Oral History Interview with Raphael Montgomery on July 26, 2018.

Raphael Montgomery was born in 1973 in Baytown. He came of age in the African-American Cedar Bayou neighborhood where there was a vibrant African-American business community and residents created a village setting. His parents raised him with the idea that he had to work harder and smarter due to racial discrimination. After graduating from Ross S. Sterling High School, Montgomery attended Prairie View A&M briefly before enrolling at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. At Fisk University, … more

Date: July 26, 2016

Duration: 58 minutes 01 second

Creator: Enriquez, Sandra & Montgomery, Raphael