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[Program: Sixth Annual Black Music and the Civil Rights Movement Concert]

Description: Program for the annual concert held by the Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters celebrating African American music and art, as well as strides made in the civil rights movement. The program provides details on featured artists, as well as advertisements and community information.
Date: January 15, 1989
Creator: Junior Black Academy of Arts and Letters
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Fritz Hollings]

Description: Video footage from the KXAS-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, to accompany a news story.
Date: July 1, 1983, 5:00 p.m.
Duration: 1 minute 34 seconds
Creator: KXAS-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[News Script: King]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the nation paying tribute to the slain civil rights leader, Dr. Martin Luther King.
Date: January 15, 1970, 12:00 p.m.
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections

[Letter from Burtis M. Dougherty to John J. Herrera - 1980-02-04]

Description: Letter from Burtis M. Dougherty for James P. Turner of the Civil Rights Division, United States Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. to John J. Herrera. Dougherty asks Herrera to send a copy of the court's order in Delgado vs. Bastrop ISD and the order issued by the Commissioner of Education.
Date: February 4, 1980
Creator: Dougherty, Burtis M.
Partner: Hoston History Research Center at Houston Public Library

[Letter from John J. Herrera to Luther Holcomb - 1962-09-10]

Description: Onionskin paper carbon copy of letter from John J. Herrera to replying to Reverend Luther Holcomb, Executive Director of the Greater Dallas Area Council of Churches, accepting his invitation to attend the next meeting of the Advisory Committee of Texas on Civil Rights, to which Holcomb had just named Herrera. Herrera goes on to discuss his knowledge and support of John B. Connally.
Date: September 10, 1962
Creator: Herrera, John J.
Partner: Hoston History Research Center at Houston Public Library

[Letter from John J. Herrera to J.C. Machuca - 1954-01-19]

Description: Letter from John J. Herrera to the Honorable J.C. Machuca describing in detail the accomplishments of his trip to Washington, "The exclusion of our people from serving on petit, grand juries and as grand jury commissioners goes to the very fundamentals that we, of LULAC hold dear [...] The case was argued [...] we were very well received [...] This is the first time in the history of our people that a case involving the civil rights of Latin Americans has been heard by the Supreme Court of the … more
Date: January 19, 1954
Creator: Herrera, John J.
Partner: Hoston History Research Center at Houston Public Library
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[Black Music and the Civil Rights Movement, 4 of 4]

Description: Video recording from The Black Academy of Arts and Letters Records. The video footage is from the Black Music and the Civil Rights Movement held on January 12, 1986, in Dallas, Texas.
Date: January 12, 1986
Duration: 22 minutes 32 seconds
Creator: Black Academy of Arts and Letters (Dallas, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[Wesley Phelps interview with Paul Smith, October 5, 2022]

Description: Audio interview from the Wes Phelps Podcast Interviews Collection recorded during on October 5th, 2022 in Washington, D.C. Phelps interviews attorney Paul Smith on his experiences clerking for Justice Lewis Powell during the trial Lawrence v. Texas. Smith discusses the roll he played in the supreme court trial which would eventually rule sodomy laws which policed "homosexual conduct" to be unconstitutional.
Date: October 5, 2022
Duration: 50 minutes 34 seconds
Creator: Phelps, Wes
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Dean story]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about Southern Methodist University's Law School dean returning from the Civil Rights Commission hearing in Montgomery, Alabama.
Date: December 10, 1958
Duration: 3 minutes 08 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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[News Clip: Angels talk to Decker]

Description: Video footage from the WBAP-TV station in Fort Worth, Texas to accompany a news story about a group coming before Dallas Sheriff Bill Decker to discuss a possible civil rights abuse in the arrest of their leader, Father J. Von Brown.
Date: February 21, 1958
Duration: 1 minute 21 seconds
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Partner: UNT Libraries Special Collections
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