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The Civil Rights History Project: Survey of Collections and RepositoriesWanda Howard collectionRepository: Sloan Museum Collection Description (CRHP): Wanda Howard, African American Collections Project coordinator at the Sloan Museum, conducted more than 200 hours of interviews in order to prepare a 1992 exhibit called "Flint and the American Dream." Topics of the interviews include: integration, public housing, lifestyles, job discrimination, discrimination in education, churches, IMA auditorium and amusement parks and campgrounds, businesses (segregated), clubs/service organizations, athletes, race relations, protest, changes introduced by migrating southerners, interracial friendship fair housing, police brutality (pickets to protest), KKK, NAACP, black nurses, businesspeople, teachers, Buick, Chevrolet, veterans, politicians, Urban League, UAW, Community Civic League (protest), a lawsuit regarding segregated cemeteries, a fair-housing sleep-in, the 1967 disturbance, and school integration. Date(s): 1983-1986 Digital Status: No Extent: 200 interviews (audio cassette) Language: English Physical Location: Flint, Michigan Related Archival Items: See also oral histories at the Sloan Museum that are part of the Great Migration project. Rights (CRHP): Contact the repository which holds the collection for information on rights Subjects:African American athletes Genres:Interviews |
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