"In connection with which are published the Charter of the City of Houston, as amended to October 1913, and Extracts from the Constitution, the Revised Civil Statutes of 1911, and the Code of Criminal Procedure relating to Municipal...
Cop Shoots Kid, Date: "02/13/69": Footage of police at the roadside scene showing a car run into the dirt and a gun by the passenger seat; two officers bend over a man to search for identification; the man is shown being loaded into an ambulance....
POW, Date: "06/30/72": Interview with a woman about her inability to make contact with her POW husband and what contact she has had with the White House. -- Lafitte, Date: "06/30/72": Footage opens on a painting of Jean Lafitte and other historic...
One Dollar Library, Date: "07/05/68": Footage of a small group of African-Americans carrying some books past a fence; a man fills out a check; the man removes a “keep out” sign from the building. -- Drowning, Date: "07/06/68": Footage of men...
Mayor on Ethics, Date: "08/19/68": Mayor Louie Welch suggests that people could go to the City Secretary’s Office to file an unspecified form despite the Code of Ethics not calling for such action; states he is not opposed to submitting a...
Four men look at another man with a horse standing in front of the Brenton & McKay Bankers building. Another man stands in the doorway of the building. In the background on the right is a building with the words Try Hammersmith Shoes painted in...
Van Ulm, Sydney -- Interviews ; Artists -- United States -- Texas ; Photographers -- United States -- Texas ; Cartoonists -- United States -- Texas -- Houston ; Oral histories
Born in Houston, Peter Roussel followed his parents' footsteps in becoming a journalist. He worked as a Press spokeman for several Presidents and Secretary of State. After moving to Houston from Washington, he became a TV-Radio commentator and...
The founder of the Kelsey-Seybold Clinic in Houston, Dr. Mavis Kelsey, examines his career as a physician in the Texas Medical Center and the creation and development of the clinic.
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.
This stately church building is located on a street corner, which the architect accented with a large square bell tower on that street corner. The facade's design has a great deal of symmetry, because the left and right sides of the church building...
Contains copies of the River Oaks Corporation advertisements ; house plans of River Oaks homes ; Annual report of the Houston Chamber of Commerce, 1935 ; McCall's Home of the Month, April 1936.
