Sam Tasby Oral History

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Videotaped oral history interview with Sam Tasby. Tasby observed the Kennedy motorcade just outside of Dallas Love Field on November 22, 1963. In 1970, he became a local champion for civil rights as the lead plaintiff in a controversial court case to integrate the Dallas Independent School District.Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on March 16, 2011 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is thirty-one minutes long.

Object Details

Object title:

Sam Tasby Oral History

Date:

03/16/2011

Terms:

Oral histories

Civic leaders

Tasby, Sam

Love Field

Dallas Independent School District

Dallas

Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)

Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)

Love Field Airport (OHC)

Medium:

Born digital (.m2ts file)

Dimensions:

Duration: 31 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2011.001.0023

Curatorial Note:

Sam Tasby passed away on August 16, 2015. Decades after his 1970 court case to fully desegregate Dallas schools, the Dallas Independent School District named Sam Tasby Middle School in northeast Dallas in his honor in 2006. The Museum also recorded an oral history with Ed Cloutman, Tasby's attorney in the desegregation case, in 2011. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator