Blowout: A Community’s Engagement with Fracking

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• Floyd Moody talks about what he did for leisure growing up in Mansfield.
  Floyd Moody talks about Farr Best Theater in Mansfield.
• Floyd Moody talks about his satisfaction with the way things went.
  Floyd Moody recalls that he was satisfied with being able to graduate with his friends and continue to play football at IM Terrell rather than going to Mansfield High School.
• Pastor Floyd Moody records an oral history interview with student Kim Moody (no relation).
  Pastor Floyd Moody, a plaintiff in Jackson v. Rawdon, discusses his life in Mansfield during the Jim Crow era, the crisis itself, and the integration of Mansfield during a 2015 oral history interview.
• Brenda Norwood discusses sitting at the back of the bus and receiving secondhand books.
  Brenda Norwood discusses sitting at the back of the bus and receiving secondhand books.
• Brenda Norwood discusses discrimination against African Americans.
  Brenda Norwood discusses discrimination against African Americans, including lack of access to water, riding in the back of the bus and using secondhand books.
• Brenda Norwood discusses more about the first day of integration.
  Brenda Norwood discusses more about the first day of integration, including the crowd that gathered that day. Some members of the crowd taunted the African American students and called out derogatory names, Norwood said in an oral history interview.
• Floyd Moody talks about news media coming to IM Terrell.
  After early negotiations at Mansfield High School, Floyd Moody went on to IM Terrell, when news media started showing up at IM Terrell, he remembers classmates saying, "black folk trying to go to a white folk school, they are going to kill you."
• Floyd Moody talks about a picture taken in front of a Mansfield bus.
  Floyd Moody talks about a picture with students in front of a Mansfield bus. Moody also talks about there being only one black high school in all of Tarrant County.
• Brenda Norwood discusses what a newly integrated Mansfield High School was like.
  Brenda Norwood, an African American senior when Mansfield High School integrated, discusses what life was like at the school during an oral history interview.
• Brenda Norwood discusses the first day of school when Mansfield integrated.
  Brenda Norwood, member of the Mansfield High School senior class of 1965-66, discusses the first day of integration at Mansfield High School.
• Floyd Moody reflects on his feelings about the integration attempt of Mansfield High School.
  Floyd Moody says he was not bitter or angry about integration events in 1956, he said about the white citizens of Mansfield, "they were raised up not having black folk in their school, maybe it wasn't that much against the race of black people, it was just something that was new to the individual and they couldn't accept it."
• Floyd Moody discusses L. Clifford Davis backing off from the integration attempts at Mansfield High School and how the passage of time changes situations by itself.
  Floyd Moody with regard to the integration attempt of Mansfield High School, "they didn't take us back, but the idea was there."
• Floyd Moody remembers sitting around table at Mansfield High School with Superintendent R.L. Huffman and others discussing integration plans.
  Floyd Moody remembers hearing the words he wanted to hear from Superintendent R. L. Huffman with regard to integration of Mansfield High School.
• Floyd Moody discusses his father losing his home and his job as a sharecropper as a result of 1956 integration attempts at Mansfield High School.
  Floyd Moody remembers the owner of the land his father was a sharecropper on encouraging his father not to enroll his son at Mansfield High School.
• Floyd Moody discusses President Eisenhower's lack of involvement with 1956 integration attempts at Mansfield High School.
  Floyd Moody says, "What really bothered me is the fact that our President, Eisenhower didn't do anything about anything."
• Kenneth Pressley discusses his memories of the scene at Mansfield High School in 1956, including an effigy that was hanging.
  Kenneth Pressley discusses his memories of the scene at Mansfield High School in 1956, including the hanging effigy. "It was a different world back then," Pressley said.
• Kenneth Pressley discusses the events he witnessed at Mansfield High School in 1956.
  Kenneth Pressley discusses the events he witnessed at Mansfield High School in 1956 during the attempt to integrate the school. He says now it seems like "it's just a part of history."
• Kenneth Pressley discusses when integration in Mansfield schools took place in 1965.
  Kenneth Pressley discusses when integration in Mansfield schools took place in 1965.
• Kenneth Pressley discusses why he thinks some Mansfield residents were upset about the integration efforts of 1956.
  Kenneth Pressley discusses why he thinks some Mansfield residents were upset about the integration efforts of 1956 during an oral history interview.
• John Howard Hicks on Saturdays in Mansfield
  John Howard Hicks, long time Mansfield resident, tells how the African-Americans would meet in town on a street corner in Mansfield, to hang out and tell stories.
• John Howard Hicks on Photo
  John Howard Hicks, Mansfield high school student bused to I.M. Terrell in Ft. Worth because of Mansfield High School's segregation policy, discusses the picture taken of the five students by the bus that drove them to Ft. Worth.
• John Howard Hicks First Day of School
  John Howard Hicks, Mansfield high school student bused to I.M. Terrell in Ft. Worth, talks about his first day of school on the day of the desegregation crisis in 1956. It was his preference to go to the school in Ft. Worth and not Mansfield High School.
• John Howard Hicks Cemetery
  John Howard Hicks talks about his ancestors buried in the Mansfield Cemetery, and the disarray of the African-American grave sites.
• John Howard Hicks Mansfield Cemetery Fence
  John Howard Hicks talks about the Mansfield Cemetery Fence that separates the white and African-American grave sites. Considers removal of the fence to help heal old wounds.
• John Howard Hicks on Bus Rides to Ft Worth
  John Howard Hicks, Mansfield high school student bussed to I. M. Terrell in Ft Worth in 1953 to 1957, tells about the daily rides to school. African-American high school students were taken by Continental Bus because of segregation of the public schools in Mansfield.