Floyd Moody talks about his satisfaction with the way things went.
Floyd Moody was satisfied with graduating high school from IM Terrell and not Mansfield High School.
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.
UNT Oral History Program
2015-04-22
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.
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.
UNT Oral History Department
2015-04-11
Floyd Moody talks about news media coming to IM Terrell.
Floyd Moody discusses going to IM Terrell after early negotiations at Mansfield High School and classmates responses to 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."
UNT Oral History Program
2015-04-22
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.
Brenda Norwood, an African American senior when Mansfield High School integrated, discusses what life was like at the school during an oral history interview.
UNT Oral History
2015-04-11
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.
Brenda Norwood, member of the Mansfield High School senior class of 1965-66, discusses the first day of integration at Mansfield High School.
UNT Oral History Department
2015-04-11
Floyd Moody reflects on his feelings about the integration attempt of Mansfield High School.
Floyd Moody shares his feelings about integration attempts at 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."
UNT Oral History Program
2015-04-22
Floyd Moody remembers sitting around table at Mansfield High School with Superintendent R.L. Huffman and others discussing integration plans.
Floyd Moody remembers R. L. Huffman saying integration will never happen at Mansfield High School.
Floyd Moody remembers hearing the words he wanted to hear from Superintendent R. L. Huffman with regard to integration of Mansfield High School.
UNT Oral History Program
2015-04-22
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 discusses his father losing his home and job in 1956
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.
UNT Oral History Program.
2015-04-22
Floyd Moody discusses President Eisenhower's lack of involvement with 1956 integration attempts at Mansfield High School.
Floyd Moody discusses feelings about President Eisenhower.
Floyd Moody says, "What really bothered me is the fact that our President, Eisenhower didn't do anything about anything."
UNT Oral History Program
2015-04-22
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.
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.
UNT Oral History
2015-04