Panola College Digital Collection

- Interview with Myrtle Boren with Helen Young by Kelly Shrewsbury - Depression
- Oral history ; Depression years ; Work camps ; Cotton farmers ; Gardening
- Ms Boren and Ms. Young tell about life during the Depression. [23 min]
- Panola Oral Histories
- Interview with Beatrice Gray by Trina McClure -- Great Depression
- Oral history ; Depression
- Ms. Gray answers questions about the being a young married women during the depression. [ 5:39 min.]
- Panola Oral Histories
- Interview with Rev. Ernest by Ray Porter --Great Depression
- Oral history ; Depression ; CCC
- Rev. Ernest remembers living in Arkansa when he was a young boy during the Depression. [18 min] He works for the CCC for 7 monthes and remembers the WPA improving conditions.
- Panola Oral Histories
- Interview with Allen Dossett by Russell Laster -- WWII
- Oral history ; WWII ; Rations ; Tokens ; Western Union
- Mr. Dossett talks about living through the Depression. [31 min.] As a young man he remembers his neighbour receiving a telegram about her husbands death from the bicycle riding Western Union girl.
- Panola Oral Histories
- Interview with Tommy Glenn by Greg Ransom -- Great Depression
- Oral history ; Depression ; Cow killings
- Mr. Glenn talks about when he was a young boy growing up in Jasper, Texas during the Depression. [ 37 min] His father ran a meat market before the Depression but his family moved to the farm when the business folded.
- Panola Oral Histories
- Interview with Herman Jeter by Kawan Jeter -- WWII
- Oral history ; WWII
- Mr. Jeter tells of being in the war as a young man. [ 4 min] He was in England and went to France on D-Day.
- Panola Oral Histories
- Interview with Cozette Hearne by Sandra Worrall -- Great Depression
- Oral history ; Depression
- Ms. Hearne was a young married woman druing the depression and remembers good times in Gary, Texas during the Depression. [10 min]
- Panola Oral Histories
- Interview with Tommy & Gene Hutto by Maria Cole -- WWII
- Oral history ; WWII : Depression
- The first part of the interview is Mr. Tommy Hutto talking about the WWII campaign under General Patch that started in Africa, took Sicily, advanced through Italy and France and ended the war in Belgium. The second interview is both men discussing...
- Panola Oral Histories
- Interview with Rev. and Mrs. T.J. Ingram by Lynn Beasley -- Great Depression
- Oral history ; Depression
- Mr. and Mrs. Ingram were young adults when the depression started. [ 29 min.] Low Audio
- Panola Oral Histories
- Interview with D.C. Johnson by Melissa Green -- Great Depression
- Oral history ; Depression : Share Croppers ; Army
- Mr Johnson answers questions about being a young man during the depression. [15 min.] Mr. Johnson left home at 21 and lived on his own until joining the army.
- Panola Oral Histories
- Interview with Aline Hern by Dedra Mathis -- Great Depression
- Oral history ; Depression ;WPA
- Ms. Hern was a young girl during the Depression and remembers her father working for the WPA earning $23 a month. [8 min.]
- Panola Oral Histories
- Interview with Lucille Hight by Julie Cranford -- Family History
- Oral history ; Life ; Family
- Ms. Hight names her grandparents and talks about her life as a young girl in Panola County, Texas. [13 min.] She also tells of her marriage and family.
- Panola Oral Histories
- Interview with Preston Brown by Brandy Reeder -- Great Depression
- Oral history ; Flour ; Depression : Sand welding ; Hay ;
- Mr. Preston tells of being a young man on a farm during the depression. [24 min.] He mentions how they baled hay in the fall.
- Panola Oral Histories
- Interview with George Yarbrough - Life in the Twenties
- Oral history; Panola County; Radio; Home brew; Sharecrop; Tobacco
- Interview with George Yarbrough [27 min.] "The gentleman's name that I interviewed is Mr. George Yarbrough. He is a black man born in Nacogdoches county, June 23, 1912. His father was a share cropper and as soon as he was old enough to hold a plow...
- Panola Oral Histories
- Interview with Lela Davis by Devin Mayhall - Depression
- Oral history ; Great Depression ; Cost of living ; WPA (Works Porgress Administration) ; Ice Box ; Farmers ; Hunting
- Mrs. Davis describes her life as a young married woman during the depression years. [ 23 min.] She sold chicken eggs for 12 cents a dozen to purchase material (for clothes) for 12 cents a yard.
- Panola Oral Histories
- Interview with Ruth Aldridge - Great Depression
- Great Depression; 1920's
- Ms. Aldridge talks about the depression when she was a young woman. [9 min.]
- Panola Oral Histories
- Black Gold - Vol. 3 : No. 1
- Oral History ; East Texas history ; African American history; Panola College
- Interview with elderly African American's in East Texas.
- Black Gold
- Black Gold - Vol. 1 : No. 1
- Oral History ; East Texas history ; Panola County history ; African American
- Interviews with East Texas elderly African Americans.
- Black Gold