/internal/media/dispatcher/73739/fullSam Tasby Oral History03/16/2011Duration: 31 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2011.001.00230Videotaped 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.
The video attached to this record is an excerpt. The entire interview is available in our Reading Room to on-site researchers or by submitting a Rights & Reproductions Request Form.Oral Histories6403133015Oral historyVideotaped 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.Oral historiesCivic leadersTasby, SamLove FieldDallas Independent School DistrictDallasCivil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)Love Field Airport (OHC)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