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Summary:

Interview with Mae Dell Shephard, a community activist and homemaker, about her experiences concerning the activities of the Denton Christian Women's Interracial Fellowship during the 1960s and 1970s. Shephard discusses her experiences growing up in a segregated society in East Texas, PTA activities, the desegregation of Denton public schools, race relations in Denton in the 1960s, her decision to join the Fellowship, the early social activities, community projects, Christian influence on the Fellowship's activities, the reaction of husbands to the Fellowship's activities, early Fellowship leaders, street paving in the African-American section of Denton, voter registration drives, recruiting members, the defeat of the urban renewal referendum, and the decline of the Fellowship.

Author/Creator:

Shephard, Mae Dell, approximately 1930-

Contributors:

Byrd, R. W. (Richard W.)

Texas Community History Oral History Project

North Texas State University > Oral History Collection

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Oral history interview with C. Shephard, 1988 July 14 [by Shephard, M.D.]

Related Series:

Oral History; [volume] 742

Subjects:

Shephard, Mae Dell, ca. 1930- — Oral history

Denton Christian Women's Interracial Fellowship — Oral history

African Americans — Texas — Denton — Oral history

Segregation — Texas — Denton — Oral history

Denton (Tex.) — Oral history

Denton (Tex.) — Race relations — Oral history

Women — Oral history

African Americans — Oral history

Genres:

Oral history — Examples

Denton Christian Women's Interracial Fellowship oral history — Examples

General Notes:

Interview conducted in 1988 for the Texas Community History (Denton Christian Women's Interracial Fellowship) Oral History Project. Interviewer: Richard Byrd.

Physical Description:

24 leaves ; 29 cm

Call Numbers:

OH 742

OCLC Numbers:

212225141