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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,...
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...
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...
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...
Double Whammy
"Now, we talked about the white flight; we didn’t talk about what really made it worse in Gary."
Double Whammy is part of our Flight Paths initiative. Double Whammy So the white flight...
Felt a Lot of Pride
"I was thinking black power was a good thing."
Produced by Rebecca Werner with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national nonprofit whose mission is to provide Americans of all backgrounds and beliefs with...
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.'"
Produced by Rebecca Werner with interviews recorded by StoryCorps, a national...
We Were Bussed
"... we were in school together, but we were separated." https://youtu.be/W3raVGrHavY Editing by Welcome Project intern Brandi Casada. Transcript for We Were Bussed Originally, the East Side of Gary, which is anything east of Broadway. See, downtown was flourishing then,...
A Really Troubled Past
"It's hard to argue with the values of a diverse population." https://youtu.be/i6gDYvVTbYM Edited by Reagan Skaggs. Transcript for A Really Troubled Past Indiana has a really troubled past with race. Marion was a very segregated city, and Marion, Indiana...