- Collection:
- Civil Rights in Black and Brown
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with I.D. Henderson, June 13, 2016
- Creator:
- Howard, Jasmin
Henderson, I.D. - Date of Original:
- 2016-06-06
- Subject:
- Persons
Ethnic groups
Civil rights - People:
- Henderson, I.D.
- Location:
- United States, Texas, Angelina County, Lufkin, 31.33824, -94.7291
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
biographies (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- I.D. Henderson, Jr. was the first Black County Commissioner of Angelina County, Texas. He served in that position from the early 1980s until the early 2000s. He was very involved in Lufkin politics and helped to improve the infrastructure of the Black Lufkin community. Mr. Henderson is also a war veteran who served in Vietnam and Korea. Mr. Henderson discussed the segregation and discrimination he witnessed from his birth in the Lufkin area in the late 1920s, his time in the military and his return to Lufkin in the 1970s. Mr. Henderson discussed receiving death threats before and after he won his county commissioner office. Also Mr. Henderson discussed his involvement in many other organizations.
- Metadata URL:
- https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth983802/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 11 video recordings (2 hr., 36 min., 2 sec.) : sd., col.
- Original Collection:
- https://crbb.tcu.edu/interviews/interview-with-i-d-henderson-part-one
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Texas. Libraries
- Rights:
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