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Memory in the Light of These Sources
"You can’t come in with your history book and bang people over the head… It’s going to be more dialogical than that." https://youtu.be/m7hl0k0P0ZE Dr. Heath W. Carter, Historian Transcript for Memory in the Light of These Sources Part of what...
Not Something That You Force
"You learn how to trust each other, you learn to assume responsibility for each other, you develop relationships… It’s something that happens in the course of time."
Rev. Dr. Gregory Jones Edited by...
I-65 Changed All That
"You know, it was a national trend back then for people to leave urban areas and move to the suburbs." https://youtu.be/TkYFpd24xCQ Transcript for I-65 Changed All That Merrillville back, I guess, in the 1800s was called Wiggins Point—its claim to...
Hold the Line
“These were good people who honestly believed that there was a real problem in terms of the difference between the races.”
Edited by Rebecca Werner. Transcript for Title of Story Well, at the...
Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained
"The guy who was over the department...said that I might have some problems because they had never had anybody black in the office." https://youtu.be/qKy4UZsE6vw Transcript for Nothing Ventured, Nothing Gained When I graduated from high school, I got a job...
The Strike at Froebel
"We were in school one day, the next day when we went back, the entire white population of students were gone." https://youtu.be/YDhAJ6NxNC8 Transcript for The Strike at Froebel I was totally shocked when I moved to Gary. For the simple...
Remember Where You Came From
"You can never forget who you are." https://youtu.be/FYjndEmJH4c Transcript for Remember Where You Came From I say to my grandkids all the time, you can never forget who you are, but you have to remember where you come from. You...
Back Then, It Mattered
"So these are things that I kind of learned that I didn’t realize I was learning." https://youtu.be/LNAsOt9SGPA Transcript for Back Then, It Mattered I’m Croatian. And when I was a kid, it mattered. My dad was Croatian, my grandfather, George...
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,...