Oral history interview with Ona B. Smith, 1991 April 30 and May 7.

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Smith, Ona B., 1930-. Oral history interview with Ona B. Smith, 1991 April 30 and May 7.

Oral history interview with Ona B. Smith, 1991 April 30 and May 7.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/233540452

Interview with Ona Smith concerning her experiences as a resident of Hamilton Park, Texas from 1959 to 1991. Smith discusses her early life as a daughter of an African-American sharecropper, her segregated education, African-American housing in Dallas during the 1940s and 1950s, her decision to buy a home in Hamilton Park, home improvements and pride in ownership, transportation problems, shopping, flooding and drainage problems, Hamilton Park PTA, Junior NAACP, the desegregation of Hamilton Park School, Civic League, property restrictions, and the "Buy Out."

86 leaves ; 29 cm.

University of North Texas Library, UNT