Civil Rights.; African Americans--Texas.; Marshall (Tex.).; African Americans--Education--Texas.; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.; Voting.
Austin, Texas and Marshall, Texas Mrs. Charles Wilson describes her personal experiences living in Texas and actively working in the civil rights movement. The second interview relates more specifically to her involvement with the NAACP.
Comal County (Tex.).; German Americans--Texas.; Farm life--Texas.
Bracken area of Comal County, Texas Gilbert Burkhardt remembers growing up as a fourth-generation German Texan in Bracken. His youth was typical of German farming communities in the early 20th Century where the German language, customs and cuisine...
San Antonio (Tex.)--politics and government.; San Antonio (Tex.)--economic conditions
San Antonio, Texas.
The man who broke the Good Government League’s 20-year control of San Antonio’s city government, Charles Becker, talks about his service as mayor for four years and a City Councilman for two. He also expresses his long-term...
Civil rights; African Americans--Texas; African Americans--Social conditions; African Americans--Segregation; San Antonio (Tex.)
Mount Zion First Baptist Church, San Antonio, Texas
Heavily spiced with cogent philosophical observations, African-American community leader The Rev. Claude Black Jr. shares his recollections of the transition from a segregated San Antonio to a...
Chisholm Trail.; Ranch life--Texas.; Pilgrim, Texas.; Southern Hotel (San Antonio, Tex.).
719 Rosehill, San Antonio, Texas Growing up on a Gonzales County ranch in the early years of the 20th Century as one of 11 children was a challenge and adventure for Rubie Leigh Robuck DeVries. With an occasional recollection contributed by her...
San Antonio (Tex.); African Americans--Texas; African Americans--Social conditions; African Americans--Segregation;
Mount Zion First Baptist Church, San Antonio, Texas
Community and political leader the Rev. Claude Black Jr. examines the dynamics and changes he has observed in his half-century of prominence in San Antonio. As a City Councilman, Black was...
San Antonio (Tex.); African Americans--Texas; African Americans--Social conditions; African Americans--Segregation;
Mount Zion First Baptist Church, San Antonio, Texas
Heavily spiced with cogent philosophical observations, African-American community leader The Rev. Claude Black Jr. shares his recollections of the transition from a segregated San Antonio to a...
Folk art--Texas;African American artists;African American artists
Black artist and preacher born in 1908, Swearingen provides biographical information, religious philosophy, and explanation of his art as background for an exhibit of his folk art at the University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San...
African Americans--Civil rights--Texas--San Antonio--History.; African Americans--Interviews.; Mt. Zion Baptist Church (San Antonio, Tex.); San Antonio (Tex.)--Race relations--History.; San Antonio (Tex.). City Council.; Segregation--Texas--San...
Black was born in San Antonio on Nov. 28, 1916, the son of a Pullman porter and a housewife. After graduating from then-Douglass High School in 1933, he enrolled at St. Philip’s College. Black earned a bachelor’s degree in 1937 from Morehouse...
Historian and author Patricia Prather discusses the gains and losses that resulted from desegregation in Houston and, in particular, the Fifth Ward where she was born.
African American cowboys;Cowboys--personal narratives
Austwell, Texas
Rev. Mack Williams relates four generations of his family's history living and working as cowboys on the O'Connor Ranch, beginning with his grandfather, Butler Thornton William, who was brought to this country as a slave, but came...
The president of the Wendish Historical Society, Laverne Gersch of Giddings, explains the history of the small Eastern German sect who came to Texas in 1854 and settled in Lee County. The Wends remain devoted to the Lutheran Church and their...
Civil rights movements--Texas, East.; Civil Rights.; Robinson, Frank James, 1902-1976.; African Americans--Texas.
African American educator, Dorothy Robinson discusses her personal philosophy, family history, career and civil rights work of her husband, Frank Robinson, particularly in Palestine, Texas, which she continued after his death.
Fairmount Hotel (San Antonio, Tex.).; Hotels--Texas.; San Antonio (Tex.)--Buildings, structures, etc.; ; Moving of buildings, bridges, etc.;
Richelieu discusses the history of the Fairmount Hotel, which was built in 1906 and moved to La Villita Historic District in April 1985, creating a Guinness Book of Records entry as the heaviest building ever moved on wheels.