Former Houston Mayor Bob Lanier is interviewed by Jim Barlow. Mr. Lanier discusses his years as a businessman in the real estate business, his law practice, and the highlights of his public career. He served three consecutive terms as Mayor of...
Marks, Jo Alessandro -- Interviews;
Actresses -- Houston (Tex.)-- Interviews;
Women in the theater;
Alley Theatre (Houston, Tex.)
The founding member of the Alley Theater, Jo Alessandro Marks was inspired into acting through a speech given by Margot Jones. Her father was the Director of all bands of the Houston Independent School Distict schools. After graduating from the...
Mindiola, Tatcho, 1939-;
Civil rights workers--Texas--Houston--Interviews;
Mexican Americans--Social conditions--Texas--Houston;
Race relations--Texas--Houston;
Mexican Americans--Civil rights;
University of Houston Central Campus;
Oral histories
Tatcho Mindiola, director of the Mexican American Studies program at the University of Houston, describes race relations in Houston in the 1950s and 1960s, and talks about his career as a community activist.
Letter from Sam Houston to Thomas M. Bagby. Houston writes about his frustration with Commodore Edwin Ward Moore of the Navy of the Republic of Texas. Houston also asks after his tenant and several small personal matters.
Governor James V. Allred's daily desk calendar entry making note of the time and date of his speaking engagement at the National Negro Business League meeting in Houston, TX on August 17, 1938.
Northside Methodist Church (Tex.) ; Railroad trains ; Fireworks ; Buffalo Stadium (Houston, Tex.) ; Houston Heights (Houston, Tex.) ; Brown, Clara Mae ; Presidents ; Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945 ; Roosevelt, Eleanor,...
Good old North Side: Opening titles, scenes of the North Side Methodist Church, and a message from the film's sponsors, the members of the Darcas class of the Sunday School. Text reads (in order): "A program for North Side Methodist Church. Good...
MSS0199-0088 (on right): Group portrait from Patmos with animals ; MSS0199-0091 (left): Portrait of neighborhood kids in the Heights. Front: Katherine and George Voinis, Mary Coronis, Mike Lewis, Mary Keffalas, Paul Coronis. Back Pete Hademenos,...
Contains proposal brought before the 27th Congress, to eliminate the delay and "embarrassments" surrounding the postal delivery between the United States and the Republic of Texas. The plan recommends that each country prepay the postage on...
