- Collection:
- Anne Braden Oral History Project
- Title:
- Interview with Eric Tachau and Mary Tachau, November 11, 1989
- Creator:
- Tachau, Eric, 1924-2002
- Contributor to Resource:
- Tachau, Mary K. Bonsteel, 1926-
- Date of Original:
- 1989-11-11
- Subject:
- African Americans--Civil rights
Civil rights movements--United States
American Civil Liberties Union of Kentucky
Discrimination in housing
Segregation
Racism
Segregation in education
School integration
Insurance agents--Kentucky--Louisville
Discrimination in insurance--Kentucky--Louisville
Race relations
Louisville (Ky.)--Race relations
Discrimination in medical care--Kentucky--Louisville
Louisville Urban League
Presidents--Election--1948
Presidents--Election--1984
Progressive Party (U.S. : 1948)
National Rainbow Coalition (U.S.)
Communist Party of the United States of America
Communists--United States
African American household employees--Kentucky--Louisville
African Americans--Violence against--Kentucky--Louisville
Bombings--Kentucky--Louisville
Discrimination in housing--Kentucky--Louisville
Segregation--Kentucky--Louisville
Racism--Kentucky--Louisville
Segregation in education--Kentucky--Louisville
School integration--Kentucky--Louisville
Courier-journal (Louisville, Ky.)
Cold War--Influence
McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957--Influence
Feminists--Kentucky--Louisville
Brown, Oliver, 1918- --Trials, litigation, etc. - People:
- Tachau, Eric, 1924-2002--Interviews
Tachau, Mary K. Bonsteel, 1926- --Interviews
Wade, Andrew, IV
Brown, Oliver, 1918-1961
Braden, Anne, 1924-2006
Braden, Carl, 1914-1975
Wallace, Henry A. (Henry Agard), 1888-1965
Truman, Harry S., 1884-1972
Jackson, Jesse, 1941-
King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
McCarthy, Joseph, 1908-1957
Johnson, Lyman T., 1906-1997 - Location:
- United States, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, 38.25424, -85.75941
United States, Southern States, 33.346678, -84.119434 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
sound recordings
transcripts - Type:
- Sound
Text - Description:
- Interview with Eric and Mary K. Tachau, November 11, 1989 conducted by Catherine Fosl.
Eric Tachau was vice president of the Louisville Fire and Marine Company who in 1954 he insured a house in a white neighborhood, Shively, for an African American couple, Andrew and Charlotte Wade, that was soon after bombed. In this interview, Eric Tachau discusses his motivation for insuring the house and gives reasons for the bombing that are not related to the Brown v. Board of Education decision. He also speaks about how the community labeled Anne and Carl Braden as communists after the Wade incident. Mary K. Tachau was a history professor at University of Louisville and she discusses being on the Kentucky Civil Liberties Union board, school desegregation, and Anne Braden's views about school desegregation in Jefferson County. - Metadata URL:
- https://kentuckyoralhistory.org/ark:/16417/xt79319s280r
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- All rights to the interviews, including but not restricted to legal title, copyrights and literary property rights, have been transferred to the University of Kentucky Libraries.
- Extent:
- 1 interview : [00:58:38]
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Kentucky
- Rights:
-
