Abstract: interviewed by Thomas L. Charlton on 11 occasions from 20 February to 31 July 1975 in Waco, Texas. ; 11 ; 586 pages; index ; Oscar DuConge was the first black mayor of Waco; youth in New Orleans; Catholic background; early education; education, Xavier High School, New Orleans; education, City College of New York; New York City in the 1920s; employment, Federal Emergency Relief Agency; salesman, Singer Sewing Machine Co.; racial segregation in Chicago; riding railway cars looking for work; salesman, Unity Life Insurance Co., New Orleans; teaching adult education; service, U.S. Army, World War II; racial segregation in army; duties in finance section; combat duty, Italy; graduate study, Atlanta University School of Social Work and Southern University; employment, Domestic Relations Court, Pittsburgh, and Veterans Administration Regional Hospital (VA), Waco; impressions of Waco in 1948; purpose of VA psychiatric treatment; racial segregation of patients; duties of social workers; purchase of Doris Miller Memorial Park, Waco; changes in funeral practices; racial segregation in Waco, 1940s; black leadership in Wa
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