Sound recording produced for the Dallas Public Library's Black Experience program and broadcast on AM radio stations KLIF (1190) and KKDA (730?).
Program credits the interviewers as Dorothy Irwin and Julia Scott-Reed of the Dallas Morning News; the broadcast recording only contains exerpts from Dorothy Irwin's interview.
Program credits news director Mike Schneider as the person who "did all that he could to make this taped history an understandable one."
Interview numerations are separate from projects ; interviews are not chronological within a project, and project number ranges can include skipped numbers.
Broadcast KLIF radio tower in Cliff Towers, Dallas, Texas KKDA radio tower in Grand Prairie, Texas 1978 January 12.
Interview recorded Dallas, Texas? 1973 January 25
Electronic reproduction. Dallas, Texas : Dallas Public Library, 2012. 1 MP3 (approximately 30 min).
Dallas Public Library. Texas/Dallas History and Archives Division; 1515 Young Street, Dallas, TX 75203; USA 214-670-1435 txu
A. Maceo Smith was born in 1903 in Texarkana, worked as a pioneer civil rights leader in Dallas, and died in 1977. He came to Dallas in 1932; taught business administration in the DISD; was publisher of the weekly Dallas Express; became executive secretary of the Dallas Negro Chamber of Commerce in 1933; was deputy director of the Hall of Negro Life, at the Texas Centennial Exposition in 1936; went to the Federal Housing Administration in 1937; retired in 1972 as assistant regional administrator for Housing and Urban Development; and was a longtime leader in the NAACP.
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