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- Collection:
- March on Milwaukee: Civil Rights History Project
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Grant and Lucinda Gordon June 9, 1995
- Creator:
- Gordon, Grant
Gordon, Lucinda
Milwaukee United School Integration Committee
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Milwaukee Public Schools
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Youth Council
Milwaukee Public Schools Board - Contributor to Resource:
- Dougherty, Jack
- Date of Original:
- 1995-06-09
- Subject:
- Oral history
Oral history--Wisconsin--Milwaukee
Civil rights demonstrations--Wisconsin--Milwaukee
Schools
Segregation in education
Civil rights demonstrations
Youth
Prejudices - People:
- Barbee, Lloyd A., 1925-2002
- Location:
- United States, Wisconsin, Milwaukee County, Milwaukee, St. Boniface Church, 43.06612, -87.92592
- Medium:
- spoken word
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Sound
Text - Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Interview of Grant and Lucinda Gordon, conducted by Jack Dougherty, June 9, 1995 (at their home, 4144 N 71st Street, Milwaukee).
Grant Gordon became the first black principal in Milwaukee in 1960 at Garfield High School; Lucinda Gordon was active with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in Milwaukee. They share their impressions of the Milwaukee United School Integration Committee's school boycotts in 1964 and 1965, the problems of busing in 1979 and 1980, the Project Rise program for academically struggling schools, and the Lady Pitts program for providing education for pregnant teens. - Metadata URL:
- https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/digital/collection/march/id/1599
- IIIF manifest:
- https://collections.lib.uwm.edu/iiif/2/march:1599/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 1 audio file
1 text file - Original Collection:
- More Than One Struggle Oral History Project Records
Archives. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries
More than One Struggle Oral History Project - Contributing Institution:
- Golda Meir Library. Special Collections
- Rights: