Descriptive Summary
Baylor University. Institute for Oral
History.
Baylor Institute for Oral History
program
1987
Materials are written in English.
87-195
1 item
Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The
University of Texas at Austin
The Baylor Institute for Oral History
Program, 1987, comprises one 7½ IPS reel-to-reel audiotape recording of the
half-hour program Lincolnville at Moccasin Bend: Black
Families on the Texas Frontier. Interviews conducted by the Baylor
Institute for Oral History discuss the settlement and lives of African-American
slaves and freedmen in Lincolnville and Coryell County, Texas.
Historical Note
In the 1980s, the Baylor Institute for Oral History at Baylor University in Waco,
Texas, conducted interviews about the settlement and lives of African-Americans in
Lincolnville and Coryell County, Texas. On June 19, 1987, the interviews aired on
PBS radio stations as part of the half-hour program
Lincolnville at Moccasin Bend: Black Families on the Texas Frontier,
produced by M. Rebecca Sharpless and David Stricklin.
Source:
BaylorTV.com | Lincolnville at Moccasin Bend: Black
Families on the Texas Frontier. Baylor University. Accessed April 15,
2011. http://www.baylortv.com/video.php?id=000850.
Scope and Contents
The Baylor Institute for Oral History Program, 1987, comprises one 7½ IPS
reel-to-reel audiotape recording of the half-hour program
Lincolnville at Moccasin Bend: Black Families on the Texas Frontier.
Interviews conducted by the Baylor Institute for Oral History discuss the settlement
and lives of African-American slaves and freedmen in Lincolnville and Coryell
County, Texas.
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research use.
Use of audio material by appointment only; please contact sound archivist for more
information.
Index Terms
Subjects (Organizations)
Baylor University. Institute for Oral History --
Archives.
Subjects
African Americans -- Texas -- Coryell
County.
Free African Americans -- Texas -- Coryell
County.
Slaves -- Texas -- Coryell County.
Places
Coryell County (Tex.) -- History --
19th century.
Coryell County (Tex.) -- History --
20th century.
Lincolnville (Tex.) -- History -- 19th
century.
Lincolnville (Tex.) -- History -- 20th
century.
Preferred Citation
Baylor Institute for Oral History Program, 1987, Dolph Briscoe Center for American
History, The University of Texas at Austin.
Processing Information
Basic processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with funds from the
National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) for the Briscoe
Center’s “History Revealed: Bringing Collections to Light project,” 2009-2011.
Detailed Description of the Papers
Inventory
2X2
Audiotape, 1987