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Bigger Forces Swirling
"I realized that my little Wonder Bread existence in Miller was not quite what I thought it was." https://youtu.be/FJ-Upndyw_g Transcript for Bigger Forces Swirling I grew up in the Miller section of Gary in the late 1960s through the ‘70s,...
Seeing Them Make Those Discoveries
"...because they don’t have access to the language like everybody else does. They don’t get that incidental learning from just overhearing something and pairing that to their experiences." [iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/803354644&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"] Produced by Rich Elliott Transcript...
The Other Side of Life
"Had it not been for this gentleman here, I would have much easier graduated from reform school than high school." [iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/804085633&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"] Produced by Rich Elliott with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose...
Motivating Force
"You can make positives out of situations and we did that as an all-black school in an all-black community." https://youtu.be/Gl4ZSFibOrE Transcript for Motivating Force Today, if any student was going to Gary Roosevelt as I remember Gary Roosevelt and others,...
Things Like That, They Happened
"You kind of adjusted… we didn’t like it. We just, we kind of adjusted." https://youtu.be/E9wjSZH8shw Transcript for Things Like That, They Happened We grew up in the neighborhood that was near Pulaski School. And at the time that I went,...
Paid Dividends
"I felt, Wow, this is scary because I want to be in there with him...and Can I do that? Am I capable of that?" [iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/818332021&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"]Welcome Project at Valparaiso University · Paid Dividends Produced by...
Part 2: All of That Changed for Me
"To go from a school that was predominantly African American to just the complete opposite was a little bit of a culture shock." https://youtu.be/l8UoRD1_2RE Part 2 of an oral history story from an interview with Mayor Jerome Prince, Gary, Indiana....
Connective Tissue
"...that was fascinating, having a process where I feel I really met those actors and that creative team and really shared something with them. But I’ve never met them in real life." [iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1046147239&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"]Welcome Project...
Standing on Shoulders
"I was very fortunate because...people had gone through it already, you know, my brothers." [iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/1018166080&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=true&show_comments=false&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"]Welcome Project at Valparaiso University · Standing On Shoulders Warning: story contains racial slurs. Find a bleeped version below. [iframe...