Flight Paths Project

Neighborhood, Community, and Country

"I don’t know any other way to operate. I can’t just sit around and say, 'Oh, well. That’s the way it is.'" [iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/574295211%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-VU9RC&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"] Produced by Rebecca Werner with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national...
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Felt a Lot of Pride

"I was thinking black power was a good thing." [iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/582862317%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-MsAUb&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"] Produced by Rebecca Werner with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with...
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Double Whammy

"Now, we talked about the white flight; we didn’t talk about what really made it worse in Gary." [iframe width="100%" height="166" scrolling="no" frameborder="no" allow="autoplay" src="https://w.soundcloud.com/player/?url=https%3A//api.soundcloud.com/tracks/587415507%3Fsecret_token%3Ds-g2pXg&color=%23ff5500&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&show_comments=true&show_user=true&show_reposts=false&show_teaser=true"] Double Whammy is part of our Flight Paths initiative. Double Whammy So the white flight...
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Just Got the Impression

"All they saw was the violence. They did not see the peace. They did not see the change." https://youtu.be/xJwnnJ7YAmw Transcript for Just Got the Impression I grew up in the Tolleston area of Gary which was, at the time, very...
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Learn from the Past to Build a Future

"There should be an allegiance to Gary to build it up and make it prosper once again." https://youtu.be/gtphIVBMxOA Transcript for Learn from the Past to Build a Future As a history major, I know that we learn from the past...
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Lives That Are Totally Alien

"The use of the car, I think, has dramatically changed the way people live." https://youtu.be/gOBG4207ABw Transcript for Lives That Are Totally Alien It used to be that people could either walk to downtown Gary or take a bus and the...
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It’s the American Dream

"We were good workers, and we did our job well, but we didn't have a passion. You have to have a passion in life." https://youtu.be/cuvzBAE2org Transcript for It's the American Dream You come here for work, and you work in...
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Hitting Home

"I was starting to grow up and see things the way my parents were seeing them." https://youtu.be/G44IXUlKZKM Transcript for Hitting Home The school I went to in Detroit was what they say now was integrated. When I came here to...
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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,...
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