Past Programs
Parallel and Crossover Lives:
Texas Before and After Desegregation
In 2000, Humanities Texas (then the Texas Council for the Humanities) introduced Parallel and Crossover Lives: Texas Before and After Desegregation, an initiative developed in partnership with the Texas Association of Developing Colleges (Dallas) and the Texas African American Heritage Association (Austin). This pilot oral history project, conducted at Jarvis Christian College in Hawkins and Huston-Tillotson University in Austin, was created to document personal experiences with school desegregation in Texas communities.
Interview transcripts are available below. In addition, each project site produced a video from the interviews they recorded, which can be viewed in the column to the right.
Interview Transcripts
- Dr. William Charles Akins
- Rev. Lindsay Bowie
- Dr. June Brewer
- Mrs. Sweetie M. Brown
- Mrs. Fuller Burns
- Dr. S. L. Curry
- Ms. Alice N. Darden Davis
- The Honorable Wilhelmina Delco
- Mrs. Withell Hall
- Mr. Odis Hammock
- Mrs. Ada M. Harden
- Mrs. Clara Henry-Kay
- Dr. Lorene Holmes
- Mrs. Cynthia Sauls Houston
- Mrs. Vivian Howard
- Mrs. Lillian Gray Kerley
- Dr. John King
- Ms. Eva June Lindsey
- Mr. Robert Lowrance
- Mrs. Jewell McCalla
- Ms. Jessie Palmer Moore
- Ms. Dorothy Orebo
- Mr. Volma Overton
- Mrs. Varee Robinson
- Mrs. Ruth Davis Sauls
- Mr. Tonny Simmons
- Mr. Reginald Smith
- Ms. Winifred Jo Washington
- Mr. James R. "Coach" Wilson
- Mrs. Bennie T. Wimberly
Watch Parallel and Crossover Lives: Recollections of Austin, Texas.
Watch Parallel and Crossover Lives: Recollections of Fouke, Hawkins, and Big Sandy, Texas.