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No description given for Museum of Western Colorado Histories. Title: African-Americans/Grand Junction
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Mr. Love was born in Omaha in 1921. He recounts his experiences growing up in Omaha working with the Count Basie Orchestra directing the Motown Band in Los Angeles and his own band in and around…
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Mr. Robinson was born in Lincoln NE in 1923. After living outside Nebraska until about 1940 he recounts his experiences in Lincoln's Malone Neighborhood.
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Ms. Hariston recounts her experiences in Arkansas as a girl and in Omaha NE starting in 1936.
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Ms. Robinson recounts her experiences growing up in Austin TX and later in Lincoln NE starting in about 1942.
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Ms. Young and Ms. Chism recount their experiences growing up in Paris TX and their lives in Omaha NE starting in about 1945.
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Mr. Tyler recounts his experiences in Omaha and outstate Nebraska as an itinerant minister starting in 1947 and doing oral history research in outstate Nebraska.
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Ms. Calloway grew up in Denver CO and worked in Washington D.C. She relates her involvement in civil rights activities from the 1940s through the 1960s and in the creation of the Great Plains Black…
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Mr. Botts was born in Pacific Junction Iowa in 1912. He recounts his experiences living in Lincoln Nebraska starting in 1940. Emphasis is on the Malone Neighborhood and the Malone Community Center.
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Originally from Ohio Arie Taylor moved to Colorado in 1958. Taylor reflects on her time in the Air Force and encountering segregation and discrimination. The first Black woman legislator in Colorado…
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Cedric "Rick" Page professor of geography and urban studies at the University of Colorado reflects on his research on the development of Dearfield Colorado. Dearfield is considered a…
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Rachel Noel a Colorado educator was born in Hampton Virginia and moved to Colorado when her husband started his medical practice. They chose Colorado because Noel's husband could practice…
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Found in 'Voices and Visions: Pikes Peak Women of the Twentieth Century Oral History Project.'
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