Oral History Interview with David Allred, August 9, 1967 Page: 87
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dangerous precedent. Curtis, on the other hand, maintained that
Negroes had been slighted in the textbooks.
Joe Lockridge was elected the Rookie of the Year, that is the
outstanding freshman member of the House. And I think he deserved
the award in many ways. I feel sure that the fact that he was a
Negro and the way he had conducted himself as a Negro had something
to do with his election, but he was also a very conscientious and
hard-working member. It's just a shame they couldn't have given
more than one such award. I felt that some others deserved it
too: my office mate, for example, Bob Thomas from Waco. Bob was
a victim of polio when he was 15, and he was confined to a wheel
chair and only had the use of about three fingers on each hand,
and had to be lifted into and out of his chair. But he was a very
effective, hard-working member, sponsored some bills, and was
instrumental in the defeat and the revision of some other bills.
He was a very hard-working fellow, and I felt he would have been
a good nomination for Rookie of the Year. I did feel that there
was one thing that left a bad taste in some people's mouths. They
put the Rookie of the Year Ballots out on the desks of the old
members before the members came in, and one member went around and
collected a whole bunch of these ballots and wrote in his favorite.
And this struck me as rather a poor example of statesmanship or
fair play. Joe Lockridge, who was elected, was not this other
member's choice. Now how much that helped him in the Negro
community--an award coming from "Whitey"--I don't know. But he did,I felt, try his best to be a good representative of all the people
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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/m1/88/?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.