Oral history interview, [19--].

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Oral history interview, [19--].

Topics include playing football for Stephen F. Austin State Teachers College while attending Northwestern State College of Louisiana in Natchitoches; working for Pure Oil Company at Van, Tex.; marriage to Mary Alice Birdwell at Tyler, Tex.; attending Stephen F. Austin State Teachers College; experiences as a school principal in Nacogdoches County; county politics and campaigning for county clerk and county school superintendent; black voters and schools; experiences as a gunner officer in the Navy during World War II; and race relations in the 1930s and 1940s.

1 sound cassette.Transcript: 1 item.

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