Miller, Harvey

Biography

The President of the Dunbar Heritage Association, Mr. Harvey Miller has resided in San Marcos since 1966.  Instrumental in integrating the public schools in his home town of Georgetown, Texas, Mr. Miller relocated to San Marcos to work at Gary Job Corps.

Attachments (transcript) illustrate important dates in Gary Job Corps history, including copies of photographs of the Dedication ceremony, copies of photographs of barracks before renovations; and Dorm Agenda, August 27, 1987.

Miller was interviewed as part of a project designed to connect high school students with long-time San Marcos residents.  The interview appears in The Ties That Bind, a book edited Oren Renick, Randall Osborne, and Megan Hamid. 

LBJ100 Oral History Project

Born in 1929, Mr. Miller talks about observing racial inequalities as a child and tells stories of how he grew up testing the norms of segregation.  He details the process that he went through in 1962 to file a suit against Georgetown High School so that his daughter could enroll and take courses that weren't offered at the Carver (Black) school, comparing that to the San Marcos public schools that integrated in 1955 following Brown v. Board of Education. 

He talks about the beginning of the Gary Job Corps, including meeting President Johnson.  Among many other initiatives, he organized the voter registration program for Gary Job Corps and impressed on the young men how important it was to register to vote when the left and found jobs elsewhere. 

Mr. Miller's interview includes a great deal of local history that documents his activism in local politics and details aspects of the Black community in San Marcos.