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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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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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Should Play Nicer

"Don’t give me this disillusioned, glossy effect of who we are. This is who we really are." https://youtu.be/Q7R6SHcvsR8   Transcript for Should Play Nicer Good neighbors. That’s an oxymoron, isn’t it? I think it is. All the counties in Northwest...
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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...
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