18 Matching Results

Search Results

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0099

Description: Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Whether a school district board of trustees may enter into a contract for legal services under a flat fee arrangement (RQ-0088-KP).
Date: June 27, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department

Texas Attorney General Opinion: KP-0098

Description: Document issued by the Office of the Attorney General of Texas in Austin, Texas, providing an interpretation of Texas law. It provides the opinion of the Texas Attorney General, Ken Paxton, regarding a legal question submitted for clarification: Requirements for a municipality's posting of notice regarding the carrying of handguns (RQ-0087-KP).
Date: June 27, 2016
Creator: Texas. Attorney-General's Office.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Ino Reyes, June 27, 2016

Description: Mr. Reyes was born in Mexico on his family's farm. One of 12 children, he excelled in school, pursuing an engineering degree. He then followed his family to Lufkin, where he worked for Lufkin Industries. After nearly twenty years working, he and his brother opened a Spanish-language newspaper, La Lengua. In his interview, he discusses his childhood and young adulthood in Mexico, assimilation and difficulties in Lufkin, his work career, the creation of La Lengua, and his contributions to the Mex… more
Date: June 27, 2016
Duration: 54 minutes 14 seconds
Creator: May, Meredith; Howard, Jasmin & Reyes, Ino
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
captions transcript

Oral History Interview with David T. Lopez, June 27, 2016

Description: David T. Lopez was born in Laredo, TX. He attended the University of Texas at Austin, where he became involved as a reporter and editor for the Daily Texan and the Texas Ranger. His involvement in news reporting lead him to work for the Corpus Christi Caller-Times, where he reported on Black and Brown efforts in school desegregation. Attracted by Cesar Chavez and United Farm Workers movement, Lopez would participate in the strikes in the Rio Grande Valley and would report on the repressive tact… more
Date: June 27, 2016
Duration: 2 hours 36 minutes 51 seconds
Creator: Enriquez, Sandra; Rodriguez, Samantha & Lopez, David T.
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Clyde James, June 27, 2016

Description: Clyde “Chico” James grew up in segregated 1940s and 1970s Lubbock. He later graduated from the University of Texas at Austin. He spent time in Mexico City and has lived between Lubbock and Mexico City for several decades. In Lubbock, James has been active in city politics and neighborhood associations. Specifically, James helped start an effort to save a Lubbock magnet school attended by Mexican Americans from destruction by a anti-Mexican school board.
Date: June 27, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 13 minutes 40 seconds
Creator: Wisely, Karen; Zapata, Joel & James, Clyde
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Maria Strong, June 27, 2016

Description: Maria Strong was born in Nebraska but grew up between Lubbock and California’s Coachella Valley. As a teenager, she left school and became the sole breadwinner for her household made of her parents and siblings. After obtaining her GED and working various jobs, she began to attend Texas Tech University, where she obtained both her undergraduate and graduate degrees. She has worked with migrant farm workers (her family was once a migrant family), as a an adviser at South Plains College, and has … more
Date: June 27, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes 03 seconds
Creator: Zapata, Joel & Strong, Maria
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Betell Benham, June 27, 2016

Description: Ms. Benham was born and raised in Lufkin, Texas. She went to segregated schools in Lufkin before participating in integration during the 1969-1970 school year. She graduated high school and went to college at the University of North Texas. She then became a flight attendant and worked in retail. She returned to Lufkin and worked with her mother, Bettie Kennedy, in the community. In the interview, Ms. Benham describes segregation in Lufkin, experiences with discrimination, problems during integr… more
Date: June 27, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 24 seconds
Creator: Benham, Betell; Howard, Jasmin & May, Meredith
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Rebecca Flores, July 10, 2016

Description: Rebecca talks about growing up in rural areas and in San Antonio, working in the fields, her time at Texas A&I, and her politicization at University of Michigan; she also talks about feminism; she also talks about her exclusion from the Chicano Movement to a certain degree because she worked full time;
Date: June 27, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 45 seconds
Creator: Arionus, Steve & Flores, Rebecca
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library
captions transcript

Oral History Interview with Rebecca Flores, July 10, 2016

Description: Rebecca talks about growing up in rural areas and in San Antonio, working in the fields, her time at Texas A&I, and her politicization at University of Michigan; she also talks about feminism; she also talks about her exclusion from the Chicano Movement to a certain degree because she worked full time.
Date: June 27, 2016
Duration: 1 hour 2 minutes 56 seconds
Creator: Arionus, Steve & Flores, Rebecca
Partner: TCU Mary Couts Burnett Library

[Funeral Program for Mr. Charles Robert Johnson, Sr., June 27, 2016]

Description: Funeral program for Mr. Charles Robert Johnson, Sr., born August 1, 1945 and died in June, 2016. The funeral was held June 27, 2016 at St. Paul United Methodist Church, officiated by Rev. James P. Amerson. Funeral arrangements were made through the Carter-Taylor-Williams Mortuary and he was buried in Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery in San Antonio, Texas.
Date: June 27, 2016
Partner: San Antonio Public Library
Back to Top of Screen