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Contains 17 Results:
Joyce Root Best (1928- ): Interview Contact Sheet/Check List, Biographical Information and Family History, Items from Best (3), Interview Summary and Context, Index of Topics, Transcript (Tape 1/Side A, 12 pp.; Tape 1/Side B, 15 pp.; Tape 2/Side A, 14 pp.; Tape 2/Side B, 5 pp.). Joyce Best came to St. Louis after college through a YMCA-sponsored program in 1951; married Stephen Best; and became a social activist. She explained how she became aware of racial issues, learned of CORE, and the early structure of CORE and its activities/demonstrations. Best discussed CORE’s impact socially and personally, reasons for leaving CORE, activist life after CORE, and current observations on the racial/political diversity in University City. Interview and release signed (2 audio cassettes)., 2004 Nov 22
File — Box: 1, Folder: 1
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains oral history interview transcripts, interview summaries and context synopses, topics indexes, biographical information and family history forms, and other documentation relating to the Unknown Soldiers/Unsung Heroes Oral History Project. Additionally, there are items such as leaflets and yearbook pages provided by some interviewees to help tell their stories. Gwen Moore, historian at the Missouri Historical Society, conducted all 17 interviews in 2004...
Dates:
2004 Nov 22
Stephen R. Best (1926-2014): Interview Contact Sheet/Check List, Biographical Information and Family History, Items from Best (4), Interview Summary and Context, Index of Topics, Transcript (Tape 1/Side A, 16 pp.; Tape 1/Side B, 12 pp.; Tape 2/Side A, 12 pp.; Tape 2/Side B, 5 pp.). Best was a native of Rock Island, Illinois; attended Harvard; and came to St. Louis in 1950 with Cecil Henshaw’s Peace Army. He discussed joining CORE; training; strategies for desegregation; integrated residences and being a straw party for a couple who purchased a home in a traditionally white neighborhood. Interview and release signed (2 audio cassettes)., 2004 Nov 15
File — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains oral history interview transcripts, interview summaries and context synopses, topics indexes, biographical information and family history forms, and other documentation relating to the Unknown Soldiers/Unsung Heroes Oral History Project. Additionally, there are items such as leaflets and yearbook pages provided by some interviewees to help tell their stories. Gwen Moore, historian at the Missouri Historical Society, conducted all 17 interviews in 2004...
Dates:
2004 Nov 15
Elizabeth White Garlington (1909-2006): Interview Contact Sheet/Check List, Narrator Details and Check List, Biographical Information and Family History, Obituary, Index of Topics (2), Transcript (Tape 1/Side A, 16 pp.; Tape 1/Side B, 15 pp.; Tape 2/Side A, 18 pp.; Tape 2/Side B, 18 pp.). Garlington was born in Abbeville, South Carolina; educated at Atlanta University; and came to St. Louis in 1939 with the goal of integrating Washington University’s School of Social Work. She explained her family history, her time at Atlanta University including instructors, the NAACP, and sororities; being recruited to work in St. Louis for the Provident Association; that she was first black woman hired by the Red Cross in 1942; conditions for poor families; assistance from Jordan Chambers; her own advocacy efforts; volunteer work with the Girl Scouts; and [Marcus] Garvey movement in St Louis. Interview and release signed (2 audio cassettes)., 2004 Sept 1
File — Box: 1, Folder: 3
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains oral history interview transcripts, interview summaries and context synopses, topics indexes, biographical information and family history forms, and other documentation relating to the Unknown Soldiers/Unsung Heroes Oral History Project. Additionally, there are items such as leaflets and yearbook pages provided by some interviewees to help tell their stories. Gwen Moore, historian at the Missouri Historical Society, conducted all 17 interviews in 2004...
Dates:
2004 Sept 1
Elizabeth White Garlington (1909-2006): Index of Topics, Transcript (Tape 1/Side A, 14 pp.; Tape 1/Side B, 18 pp.). Malaika B. Horne was present for the interview. Garlington discussed a lynching in Abbeville when she was a young girl; the racial climate in South Carolina; her family history; her involvement in the NAACP in Atlanta and in St. Louis; the Colored Clerks Circle and Frank Jones and Georgia Russa; help from Stuart Symington and Jordan Chambers; her impression of Fredda Witherspoon; and the ACT-SO program with NAACP (Afro-American Academic Cultural, Technological, and Scientific Olympics). Interview and release signed (1 audio cassette)., 2004 Sept 15
File — Box: 1, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains oral history interview transcripts, interview summaries and context synopses, topics indexes, biographical information and family history forms, and other documentation relating to the Unknown Soldiers/Unsung Heroes Oral History Project. Additionally, there are items such as leaflets and yearbook pages provided by some interviewees to help tell their stories. Gwen Moore, historian at the Missouri Historical Society, conducted all 17 interviews in 2004...
Dates:
2004 Sept 15
Elizabeth White Garlington (1909-2006): Index of Topics (2), Transcript (Tape 1/Side A, 15 pp.; Tape 1/Side B, 14 pp.). Garlington recalled working with Whitney Young (1921-1971) in the NASW (National Assn. of Social Workers); working with the Red Cross during WWII, student nurses at Homer G. Phillips Hospital, and family therapy at Annie Malone’s Children’s Home; efforts to get black students admitted to Washington University’s School of Social Work; and her parents’ organizational affiliations. Interview and release signed (1 audio cassette)., 2004 Sept 22
File — Box: 1, Folder: 5
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains oral history interview transcripts, interview summaries and context synopses, topics indexes, biographical information and family history forms, and other documentation relating to the Unknown Soldiers/Unsung Heroes Oral History Project. Additionally, there are items such as leaflets and yearbook pages provided by some interviewees to help tell their stories. Gwen Moore, historian at the Missouri Historical Society, conducted all 17 interviews in 2004...
Dates:
2004 Sept 22
Elizabeth White Garlington (1909-2006): Transcript (Tape 1/Side A, 13 pp.; Tape 1/Side B, 12 pp.). Garlington explained how she worked with youth members of the NAACP in St. Louis and how St. Louis got to test the ACT-SO program (referred to as “AXO” in the transcript); a split in a social work organization; and some of the first Black people employed by the local universities. Interview and release signed (1 audio cassette). , 2004 Nov 4
File — Box: 1, Folder: 6
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains oral history interview transcripts, interview summaries and context synopses, topics indexes, biographical information and family history forms, and other documentation relating to the Unknown Soldiers/Unsung Heroes Oral History Project. Additionally, there are items such as leaflets and yearbook pages provided by some interviewees to help tell their stories. Gwen Moore, historian at the Missouri Historical Society, conducted all 17 interviews in 2004...
Dates:
2004 Nov 4
Elizabeth White Garlington (1909-2006): Transcript (Tape 1/Side A, 12 pp.; Tape 1/Side B, 14 pp.). The discussion centered around Garlington’s siblings; her two oldest brothers were newspapermen. She also discussed the Urban League and several people with whom she worked (Philip Waring, Fred Smith, and Whitney Young); and the Nursery Foundation and Rabbi Isserman. Garrington was briefly married to William Cannon (5 yrs). She explained that her parents viewed education as the way to a better way of life for all their children – her mother wanted her to learn French and move to France – and she described the black school in Abbeville which only went to grade 10. Interview and release signed (1 audio cassette)., 2004 Nov 10
File — Box: 1, Folder: 7
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains oral history interview transcripts, interview summaries and context synopses, topics indexes, biographical information and family history forms, and other documentation relating to the Unknown Soldiers/Unsung Heroes Oral History Project. Additionally, there are items such as leaflets and yearbook pages provided by some interviewees to help tell their stories. Gwen Moore, historian at the Missouri Historical Society, conducted all 17 interviews in 2004...
Dates:
2004 Nov 10
John Edward LaGrone (1943- ): Interview Contact Sheet/Checklist, Biographical Information and Family History, Items/Photos from LaGrone (11), Interview Summary and Context (2), Index of Topics, Transcript (Tape 1/Side A, 13 pp.; Tape 1/Side B, 16 pp.; Tape 2/Side A, 14 pp.; Side B blank, Tape 3/Side A, 6 pp.). LaGrone joined the NAACP Youth Council in 1958 while a sophomore at Vashon High School; described assignments and demonstrations. He provided information on his family and the neighborhoods in which he lived as a youth. LaGrone discussed the racial and social climate for teenagers in the 1950s and 1960s, relationship between the Youth Council and the adult leaders, and many of the people who influenced him. Interview and release signed (3 audio cassettes)., 2004 July 14
File — Box: 1, Folder: 8
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains oral history interview transcripts, interview summaries and context synopses, topics indexes, biographical information and family history forms, and other documentation relating to the Unknown Soldiers/Unsung Heroes Oral History Project. Additionally, there are items such as leaflets and yearbook pages provided by some interviewees to help tell their stories. Gwen Moore, historian at the Missouri Historical Society, conducted all 17 interviews in 2004...
Dates:
2004 July 14
John Edward LaGrone (1943- ): Transcript (Tape 1/Side A, 16 pp.). LaGrone discussed getting support for campaigns and recruiting for the NAACP Youth Council in churches, and his memories of Fredda Witherspoon, Margaret Bush Wilson, Ina Boone; Arthur Shaw, Kenneth Lee of CORE, William Clay, Raymond Howard, and many others. Interview and release signed (1 audio cassette)., 2004 Nov 11
File — Box: 1, Folder: 9
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains oral history interview transcripts, interview summaries and context synopses, topics indexes, biographical information and family history forms, and other documentation relating to the Unknown Soldiers/Unsung Heroes Oral History Project. Additionally, there are items such as leaflets and yearbook pages provided by some interviewees to help tell their stories. Gwen Moore, historian at the Missouri Historical Society, conducted all 17 interviews in 2004...
Dates:
2004 Nov 11
Mary McClain McAllister (1926- ): Interview Contact Sheet/Checklist, Interview Summary and Context, Index of Topics, Transcript (Tape 1/Side A, 17 pp.; Tape 1/Side B, 17 pp.; Tape 2/Side A, 10 pp.). McAllister came to St. Louis in 1948 to attend graduate school at Washington University and joined St. Louis CORE, having been a CORE member at Wilberforce University. She explained her family background, undergraduate experiences, practicum at Grace Hill with Bonnie Marglous Rosen during Fairgrounds Park Incident, and activities with CORE. Interview and release signed (2 audio cassettes)., 2004 Dec 14
File — Box: 1, Folder: 10
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The collection contains oral history interview transcripts, interview summaries and context synopses, topics indexes, biographical information and family history forms, and other documentation relating to the Unknown Soldiers/Unsung Heroes Oral History Project. Additionally, there are items such as leaflets and yearbook pages provided by some interviewees to help tell their stories. Gwen Moore, historian at the Missouri Historical Society, conducted all 17 interviews in 2004...
Dates:
2004 Dec 14