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

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…

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…

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

Beatrice Mayes Clabon and her brother Curtis Mayes are long standing residents of Texas City. As with all African American families at this time, they lived south of Texas Avenue. Clabon is the oldest of seven children and was the only girl until…

Betty Adams Jones talks about her home in Texas City, her family, and being an only child, (though she had two stepsisters.) She discusses what it was like to live with both of her grandfathers who were complete opposites in personality, and the…

Mary Parker talks about her childhood and being one of the three largest families in Texas City. She tells how her father was a World War I veteran and much older than her mother. She talks of her time going to Wharton in the summer and how her…

Martha Payne Darden discusses how she and her six siblings were born and raised in a segregated neighborhood south of Texas Avenue in Texas City. Darden talks about her childhood, her big family, and her education attending Booker T. Washington…

Bernia Hall talks about moving to La Marque (West Texas City) in 1952 with her family. She talks about her parents, childhood, and having twin sisters. She describes her early life as busy with studies, chores and taking care of her sisters,…

Lee R. Gordon talks about being descended from a family of sharecroppers and why they moved to Texas City in 1946. He describes his neighborhood, parents, family life, and growing up in The Projects, a segregated low-income apartment complex. He…