Civil Rights Stories Interviews
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Civil Rights Stories Interviews
Illinois’s African-Americans often have important Civil Rights stories to preserve, but their experiences encompass so much more. Theirs are often stories about the strength of African-American families, or of cherished institutions, or their own personal service, struggles or experiences. This project provides a venue for all of that, a place to preserve the vibrant voices of African-Americans from all walks of life.
He talks about civil rights and Chicago City Colleges
1964 Mississippi voter registration drive
Nurse with the 24th Evacuation Hospital during Vietnam War
Kathryn's early life until high school
A Church of God minister who was very active in the civil rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s
Growing up in Flint, MI, high school football and expulsion from school