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Janet Cooper Collection
Files and legal papers from the court cases of Janet Cooper vs. Kingsville Independent School District. Janet Cooper sued for nonrenewal of her contract due to a teaching method she employed called the Sunshine Project. The Sunshine Project involved role playing and simulation to dramatize conversion of a radically segregated society during Reconstruction to one less segregated. Eight years of litigation resulted and the case went to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. Cooper won the case, was reinstated, and received back pay, retirement pay, and lawyer fees.

Ben Glusing Collection
The Benjamin A. Glusing Collection was donated in parts over thirty years. Ben donated favorite historical books, items of local interest and personal items from his office. The collection chronicles events of his life in Kingsville as a lawyer for the King Ranch and the town. He was involved at the state level as a legislator and the local level in community activities and his church's organizations.

Candace Jefferson Collection
Candace Jefferson was born and raised in Kingsville, Texas in the last half of the 20th century. Her father was a union representative for the Colored Trainmen of American in Kingsville when the railroad was young in South Texas. Candace Jefferson first worked in Houston in the Health Care field, later she worked for Condaleeza Rice and met Colin Powell at the State Department of the United States. Jefferson traveled and worked in Egypt and Israel. This collection of papers, documents, and photographs tell the rich story of her experiences.

Dr. Joseph O. Kuti Collection
Dr. Joseph O. Kuti was a professor in the agronomy and resource science department since the fall of 1988 when he accepted a position at Texas A&I University (now Texas A&M University-Kingsville.) His teaching, publishing and interests ranged from genetic improvement of plants with nutritional and health benefits to environmental uses of native and exotic landscape plants.

Ladd Family Collection
The Ladd Family Collection consists primarily of personal correspondence between family members, photographs and scrapbook, legal materials, financial materials. Pauline Schostag Ladd (mother) or Robert Boyd Ladd (son) wrote or received the majority of the correspondence. The correspondence takes place mostly during the 20th century. Both Pauline and Boyd were educators, Pauline at the elementary level and Boyd at the university level. The collection also documents most of the educational achievements of the family, and includes many of the diplomas and certificates. Reprocessing occurred in 2018 with the original accession numbers left on individual items and keeping the original order.