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Inside Wisby's Ice Cream Parlor. people standing in the photo of the Ice Cream Parlor. Starting left to right: Ernest Wisby, Arletha Smith, Nadine Scott, Artis Wisby, Faye Evans, Kathi’s Williams, Ernest E. Wisby, and Emmitt R. Wisby. People listed…

Image of Emmitt R. Wisby and his family. From left to right standing is Timothy Wisby, sitting is Hortense Wisby. In her lap is Belinda Wisby and standing is Yolanda Wisby. Sitting is Emmitt R. Wisby Sr. and in his lap is Michael Wisby. Standing…

[ohms] This oral history documents the life of Emmitt R. Wisby, Sr., born in 1936 in Galveston, Texas, who grew up in Texas City during the segregation era and later became a successful contractor and carpentry educator in Oklahoma City. Wisby shares…

This is an image of Emmitt R. Wisby at the community swimming pool, holding a baby. ca. 1950s

Family photo of the Wisby Family in front of their boarding house in 1933.

Vera Bell Gary talks about graduating Prairie View A & M University with a degree in Home Economics in 1946. She tells how blessed she felt that her first job was with Lincoln High School, an all-Black school in her hometown of La Marque Texas. She…

Vera Bell Gary grew up in the West Texas City / La Marque area in an area known as the 1867 Settlement and is 96 years old at the time of this interview. She is a descendent of the Bell family, one of three families of freed slaves who settled in…

Thelma Smith Bowie, Commissioner-at-Large for Texas City, Texas, describes moving from Temple, Texas to Texas City - La Marque, in 1957, and how living at 122 Lake Road “was the best place to be in the whole wide world”. She shares stories about her…

Reverend D.N. Benford officially recognized as “the longest-serving pastor of a single church" by the Guinness Book of World Records, shares insight into his 72 years of experience as a preacher for the Rising Star Baptist Church. He talks about his…

Daisy Buster talks about growing up in a family with seventeen children, her community, and attending Booker T. Washington School. She talks about visiting her grandparents in Louisiana and how her sister, Rose, was almost like another mother to her.…