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Fontenette-Yates / Houston Then and Now

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Interview Interview with Peggy Fontenette-Yates
Subjects Family › Childhood Experiences
Citizenship › Voting and Voter Registration
Citizenship › Civic Engagement
Citizenship › Political Rights
Citizenship › Access to Public Services
Work › Black-Owned Businesses
Community Organizations › Civil Rights Organizations
Race Relations › Black-White Race Relations
Discrimination or Segregation › Discrimination or Segregation in Stores
Discrimination or Segregation › Discrimination or Segregation of Public Accommodations
Discrimination or Segregation › Discrimination or Segregation at School
Discrimination or Segregation › Discrimination or Segregation and Neighborhoods
Geography › Geographical Descriptions
Education › Secondary Education
Education › Education and Integration
Education › Teachers and Administrators
Electoral Politics › Voter Registration
Electoral Politics › "Get out the vote"
Law and Public Policy › Civil Rights Act of 1964
Recreation and Leisure › Segregated Shopping Districts
Historic Periods › Jim Crow Period
Ideology › Relations Between Radicalism and Local People
Ideology › Relations Between Radicalism and Liberalism
Direct Action › Direct Action (unspecified)
Consumption › Consumer Boycotts
Black Power
Citizenship › Taxes › Poll Tax
People › Jordan, Barbara
Discrimination or Segregation › Discrimination or Segregation of Public Accommodations › Water fountains
Ideology › Radicalism
Tags Leland, Mickey
Phillis Wheatley High School, Houston, TX
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Interview date 2016-06-10
Interview source CRBB Summer 2016
Interviewees Fontenette-Yates, Peggy
Duration 00:05:40
Citation "Houston Then and Now," from Peggy Fontenette-Yates oral history interview with ,  June 10, 2016, Houston, TX, Civil Rights in Black and Brown Interview Database, https://crbb.tcu.edu/clips/7440/houston-then-and-now, accessed April 20, 2024