Football--Texas.; Youth league football.; Football--fans.;Football--coaching.; John Jay High School (San Antonio, Tex.).; University of Texas at San Antonio--Football.
Nancy Medrano discusses her family involvement in sports, particularly the way she serves as a parent to support her son's football teams.
Covered wagon trips.; Austin (Tex.)--Social life and customs.
San Antonio, Texas Whitaker recounts the history of her family who moved to Texas during the 1830s, settling around Austin. Each summer her family took a covered wagon trip into the nearby hill country, camping, fishing and learning about the...
World War, 1939-1945--Aerial operations, American; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American;
San Antonio, Texas
San Antonio banker John M. Bennett recalls his historic role as the leader of a two major bombing operations of World War II. Bennett, descended from the Bennett and Armstrong ranching families of South Texas, recalls both the...
Lawyers--Texas; San Antonio (Tex.)--Politics and government.
San Antonio, Texas
Interviewed in his downtown office during his 71st year as a practicing attorney, San Antonio civic leader and historian C. Stanley Banks shares his recollections of an Anglo-dominated community of fewer than 100,000 people he...
Texas--History--To 1846--Societies.; Fort Velasco, Battle of.; Brazoria Militia.; Muzzle-loading firearms.
Reynolds discusses the society formed by interest in muzzle-loading weapons and Battle of Fort Velasco which was fought on June 26, 1832, precipitated by a Mexican officer who angered Anglo settlers in Texas when he imprisoned and refused to honor...
Historic buildings--Texas--La Grange (Tex.).; La Grange (Tex.).
La Grange, Texas Marguerite Willmann narrates a tour of her historic home in La Grange, Texas which was owned by Nathaniel W. Faison and his family from 1866 to 1961.
"San Antonio, TX
Ladislav Zezula was the son of Czech immigrants who came to Texas circa 1900. He discusses personal history, including the Czechoslovakian cultural activities in Runge, Texas, during his childhood."
Civil rights; African-Americans--Texas; African-Americans--Segregation; Dallas (Tex.); African Americans--Education--Texas; Church and social problems--Texas
Black Dallas educator Sadye Gee recalls the good and the bad of the city's gradual desegregation and the importance of the Hamilton Park neighborhood to Dallas' Black leadership.
University of Texas Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio; Exhibitions and museums; Shuffler, R. Henderson (Ralph Henderson), 1908--1975; Ransom, Harry Huntt, 1908-1976; Baker, Oscar Terrell, 1910-2006.
Davis shares his knowledge of the development of the Institute of Texan Cultures as a public museum, particularly the Folklife Festival, and relates background on the people and events involved in this process.
Alfred Aguirre recalls his experiences as a Hispanic student in San Marcos in the 1940s and early 1950s. He details the ethnic segregation of the elementary grades and the paucity of Hispanics who persevered through the system to complete high...
World War, 1939-1945--Naval operations.; Merchant marine--United States.; United States. Coast Guard--Personal narratives.
Cibolo, Texas Commander Leon Y. Wald, USCG, Retired is interviewed by Captain Pickett Lumpkin, USN, Retired concerning Wald's military experiences before and after World War II, including during the war when his Merchant Marine ship was torpedoed,...