Sam Tasby Oral History
Object number2011.001.0023
Date03/16/2011
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Sam Tasby
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)
DimensionsDuration: 31 Minutes
DescriptionVideotaped 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.
Curatorial CommentarySam 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
02/12/1964 - 02/14/1964
