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[Oral History Interview with Dr. Joseph L. Atkins]

Description: Interview with Joe L. Atkins, who was a member of the NAACP Youth Council and filed a suit against North Texas State College for admission discrimination. Atkins discusses his early life in Jefferson and Dallas, TX and his experiences with the NAACP and involvement in the Civil Rights Movement. This included work desegregating college admissions equality and teacher representation demonstrations in Dallas.
Date: September 20, 2011
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[Oral History Interview with Hollis Brashear]

Description: Interview with Hollis Brashear, who was the Dallas ISD School Board President and a retired Army officer. Brashear discusses his early life in Dallas, TX, college at Prairie View, becoming an officer in the military, his time being stationed overseas, and his experiences leading the school district.
Date: September 29, 2011
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[Oral History Interview with William H. Cotton]

Description: Interview with William H. Cotton, who was an administrator with Dallas ISD. Cotton discusses growing up on a farm in Hammond, Texas, the changes he experienced and took part in at DISD as it was desegregated and passed through multiple superintendents, having to work multiple jobs, and the other administrators and convocations he attended.
Date: September 8, 2011
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[Oral History Interview with Hector Flores]

Description: Interview with Hector Flores, who was a police officer, worked with the DOJ, and then became a DISD administrator. Flores discusses his early life in Dilley, TX and traveling to be a migrant worker with family before going to school and becoming the first to graduate in his family, joining the police force, and the jobs that led him to be an administrator in the Dallas school system during affirmative action and joining with LULAC.
Date: September 3, 2011
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[Oral History Interview with John Fullinwider]

Description: Interview with John Fullinwider, who was a teacher and activist in Dallas. Fullinwider discusses growing up in Dallas, his work as an activist in both Austin and Dallas, his time as a teacher, and what he hopes for the future generations of students who want to make change happen.
Date: September 21, 2011
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[Oral History Interview with Kathlyn Joy Gilliam]

Description: Interview with Kathlyn Joy Gilliam, an activist and the first African American woman to become a Dallas School Board member. Gilliam discusses going to school in Dallas during segregation, her work and life afterwards during the fight for desegregation, other figures in the Dallas Civil Rights Movement, and programs for students to further their education. Gilliam also has a school named after her in Dallas.
Date: October 18, 2011
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[Oral History Interview with Edward Harris]

Description: Interview with Edward Harris, who was an activist and later became an author. Harris discusses his book "In the Shadow of Big Tex", growing up in Dallas with his family, his college experience at El Centro College, Bishop College, and Arlington State College (now UTA), getting drafted, his activism with SNCC and Grassroots Incorporated, being arrested and later committed for "hypersensitivity to racial discrimination", and other community programs he was involved in.
Date: October 21, 2011
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[Oral History Interview with Zan W. Holmes, Jr.]

Description: Part one of an interview with Reverend Zan W. Holmes, Jr., who was a reverend in Dallas. Holmes discusses growing up in Waco, Texas during segregation, his time at SMU, his early experiences as a pastor in Dallas, and the activism and political elections he took part in. The transcript cuts off mid-sentence.
Date: August 26, 2011
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[Oral History Interview with Peter Johnson]

Description: Part two of an interview with Peter Johnson, who was an activist in Dallas. Johnson discusses his work, including the Operation Breadbasket food drives and hunger manifesto, protests, and the AAMAN program, which ran citizen-led investigations of drug dealers and buyers.
Date: September 21, 2011
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[Oral History Interview with Julia Jordan]

Description: Part two of an interview with Julia Jordan, who was an activist in Dallas. Jordan discusses her involvement with the Priscilla Art Club and The Links, how the social clubs worked, and the local medical community. She also speaks about teaching, the activism she took part in in the school districts, and her work with the Opportunities Industrial Center. The interview appears to be cut-off.
Date: September 7, 2011
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[Oral History Interview with Mavis B. Knight]

Description: Interview with Mavis B. Knight, who was an activist in Dallas. Knight discusses her family growing up in North Carolina, her activism for civil rights for the minority and LGBT communities, her own education, her work in different community programs, and her work in school administration.
Date: August 26, 2011
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[Oral History Interview with Wright L. Lassiter, Jr.]

Description: Interview with Dr. Wright L. Lassiter, Jr., who held positions as the President of Schenectady County Community College, President of Bishop College (in Dallas, Texas), Chancellor of Dallas County Community College, and President of El Centro College. Lassiter discusses his upbringing, his education, his "civil rights experiences" on the Tuskegee University campus, his career, his commitment to community service (including appointments to national committees and boards), his unsuccessful fight … more
Date: September 30, 2011
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[Oral History Interview with Rene Martinez]

Description: Interview with Rene Martinez, an educator who has held roles as a teacher, campus administrator, and adjunct professor. Martinez discusses his upbringing and family life, his membership in the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), his experiences as a civil rights activist in Dallas, as well as his efforts in desegregation in Dallas schools.
Date: September 7, 2011
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[Oral History Interview with Curtistene Smith McCowan]

Description: Interview with Curtistene Smith McCowan, member and supporter of the NAACP and Urban League. McCowan discusses her upbringing, family, affiliation with the NAACP and Urban League, her involvement with the PTA in her sons' schools and how she advocated for more minority teachers and administrators and equal treatment of Black students, and her seat on the school board in Desoto.
Date: September 23, 2011
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[Oral History Interview with Eva McMillan and Ernest McMillan

Description: Interview with Eva McMillan and her son, Ernest McMillan, civil rights activists in Dallas. Mrs. McMillan discusses her upbringing, home life, her affiliation with the Dallas Progressive Voters League and SNCC and her activism in Dallas. Mr. McMillan discusses his upbringing, activism, prison sentence, and affiliations with SNCC and other civil rights organizations.
Date: September 2, 2011
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[Oral History Interview with Kathryn Mitchell]

Description: Interview with Kathryn Mitchell, former elementary school teacher in Dallas Independent School District and activist. Mitchell discusses her early life, her experience organizing a PTA at Kramer Elementary in Dallas, and how she navigated integration as an elementary school teacher.
Date: September 6, 2011
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[Oral History Interview with Donald Payton]

Description: Interview with Donald Payton, contributor ro the Dallas Historical Society and the Dallas Black Remembrance Project. Payton discusses his early life, his experience during integration in the 1960s at North Texas State University, being a Black soldier in Vietnam, time serving on the Dallas County Historical Commission and his affiliation with and Dallas Historical Society and Dallas Black Remembrance Project.
Date: September 30, 2011
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