- Collection:
- Civil Rights in Black and Brown
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with John Wright, July 27, 2016
- Creator:
- Wright, John
Howard, Jasmin
May, Meredith - Date of Original:
- 2016-07-27
- Subject:
- Persons
Ethnic groups
Civil rights - People:
- Wright, John
- Location:
- United States, Texas, Liberty County, Liberty, 30.05799, -94.79548
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
biographies (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Mr. Wright was born and raised in Liberty, Texas in the 1930s. HE grew up on a farm and went to segregated schools. After his graduation in 1954, he went to Prairieview A&M for a brief period of time before joining the army, where he was stationed in Germany. He returned to Texas in 1960 and began working as a medical technologist. Later, he worked for NASA on the Apollo 11 mission, the EEOC, and the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. In his interview, Mr. Wright describes Liberty in the 1940s and 1950s, his experience in the army, discrimination on the job in the 1960s and 1970s, community activism, his experiences as city councilman in Ames, and his hopes for hte area's future.
- Metadata URL:
- https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth983002/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 6 video recordings (1 hr., 15 min., 18 sec.) : sd., col.
- Original Collection:
- https://crbb.tcu.edu/interviews/interview-with-john-wright
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Texas. Libraries
- Rights:
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