- Collection:
- Civil Rights in Black and Brown
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Joann Littleton, July 6, 2016
- Creator:
- Zapata, Joel
Littleton, Joann - Date of Original:
- 2016-07-06
- Subject:
- Persons
Ethnic groups
Civil rights - People:
- Joann Littleton
- Location:
- United States, Texas, Ector County, Odessa, 31.84568, -102.36764
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
biographies (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Joann Davenport Littleton was born and raised in Crane, Texas. In Crane’s high school, Davenport Littleton became the first African American class president. Indeed, her mother was the first African American to graduate from the same high school. As a talented volleyball player, she received an academic scholarship to Angelo State University in San Angelo, Texas. Davenport Littleton did not like the athletic structure she had to adhere to and left Angelo State University after a semester. She moved to Odessa and worked for the city as well as a privet company while joining the Ector County Democrats. In 1990, deeming south Odessa being underserved, Davenport Littleton ran for city council. She won with a majority ethnic Mexican electorate. In the city council she worked to bring development and city services to south Odessa as well as to clean the environmental problems of that city section.
- Metadata URL:
- https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth982477/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 5 video recordings (1 hr., 10 min., 57 sec.) : sd., col.
- Original Collection:
- https://crbb.tcu.edu/interviews/interview-with-joann-littleton
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Texas. Libraries
- Rights:
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