- Collection:
- Civil Rights in Black and Brown
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Sheila Patterson Harris and Rose Wilson, July 1, 2016
- Creator:
- Harris, Sheila Patterson
Wilson, Rose
Wisely, Karen - Date of Original:
- 2016-07-01
- Subject:
- Persons
Ethnic groups
Civil rights - People:
- Wilson, Rose
Harris, Sheila Patterson - Location:
- United States, Texas, Lubbock County, Lubbock, 33.57786, -101.85517
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
biographies (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Rose Wilson was born outside of Waco and moved to Lubbock as a young married adult. She raised her children in the city. Wilson became the first African American women to become president of Lubbock’s NAACP—when she was working as a maid. Because of her work sector, she faced pushback by some community economic elites. Sheila Patterson-Harris was born and raised in Lubbock, Texas. Her father is T.J. Patterson-Harris, the first African American City Representative of Lubbock, Texas. She attended school at the University of North Texas Denton, Texas. After graduating from university, Patterson-Harris moved back to Lubbock and worked in the radio industry but transferred over to working as a probation officer for twenty-nine years. She won the city representative seat her father once had in 2016.
- Metadata URL:
- https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth982450/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 4 video recordings (55 min., 57 sec.) : sd., col.
- Original Collection:
- https://crbb.tcu.edu/interviews/interview-with-sheila-patterson-harris
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Texas. Libraries
- Rights:
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