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Part 3: Get Out into the World
"Marine Corps was a decision based on my desire to want to provide for my family." https://youtu.be/VBWvxaWjat8 Part 3 of an oral history story from an interview with Mayor Jerome Prince, Gary, Indiana. You can find Part 1 here, Part...
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....
Cross-Connect
"Pierogies are the Eastern European version of empanadas, you know?" https://youtu.be/z-Eurt554aM An oral history story from an interview with Nicole Martinez-LeGrand, Multicultural Collections Coordinator, Library and Archives Division, Indiana Historical Society. Transcript for Cross Connect When I was growing up,...
Residential Segregation and Racial Inequality
"...central obstacles for black Americans seeking to make their way in post-war America." https://youtu.be/4cs2_xbcld8 Historian Heath Carter discusses how post-war policies and practices (including the G.I. Bill, redlining, and restrictive covenants) created a Northern Jim Crow. Transcript for Residential Segregation...
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,...
Between Those White Lines
"With athletes, it was just a whole different kind of bonding." https://youtu.be/n002TWpLkL4 Transcript for Between Those White Lines The interesting thing about sports is this, and a lot of people just don’t get it. Sports for the most part, not...
Cuba: La Salida (Cuba: It Was Time To Leave)
"Nada más que he extrañado siempre a la familia." | "The only thing is, I have always missed my family." https://youtu.be/HxiYjFNQTas Mirtha Cuza | interviewed and produced by Melissa Avila Transcript for Cuba: La Salida | Cuba: It Was Time...
Before the Floodgates Opened
"I will call some agents out there and see what's available, but I want to let you know what times we're living in." https://youtu.be/ipBby9naDwQ Transcript for Before the Floodgates Opened Open housing just opened the floodgates and made it possible...
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,...