Oral History Interview with David Allred, August 9, 1967 Page: 80
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Allred
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But to return to Curtis and Joe Lockridge everytime I talked
to Curtis his conversation dealt with the Negro and the white. He
was very conscious of it and I think very deeply moved in support
of the civil rights movement. But I disagreed with some of the
ways that Curtis interpreted things. In particular there was a
bill up that dealt with the makeup of a school board in Tarrant
County. In many school board elections, the people in power have
a tendency to perpetuate themselves. If they are elected at large,
you generally have most of the people elected from the better part
of town. The school board is a non-paying job and...in fact it is
a good way to make a lot of enemies. Everybody has a different
opinion on how the schools ought to be run and they get pretty
carried away with their opinions sometimes. The people from the
better economic areas can more afford to serve. Also, even if
someone from one of the lower economic areas runs, he doesn't have
the campaign funds generally that somebody from the better area
does.
Waggoner Carr used to tell a story about a man who said, "You
know I'm a poor boy, but I feel like a poor boy can still be
elected in Texas politics." His friend said, "Buddy unless you
have enough money to get on television and tell the people you're
poor, they'll never know it." And I think this is very true in
many ways. The person who can afford television time, and billboards,
and newspaper ads has a much better chance of being elected. I
think Curtis had a very definite point. I question not his pointbut the way he went about it. Curtis favored electing school board
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Marcello, Ronald E.; Kamp, H. W. & Allred, David. Oral History Interview with David Allred, August 9, 1967, book, November 20, 1968; Denton, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth223569/m1/81/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Oral History Program.