School integration
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
Oral History Interview with Elaine Long, 1978 May 24
Topics include Elaine's childhood in Memphis, Tennessee; came to Colorado to visit her brother in 1955 and never left. Talks a lot about segregation, integration of Denver Schools; President of NCJW in 1965, worked with the Job Corps during the Kennedy administration.
Oral History Interview with Elizabeth Richardson, 1986
Elizabeth Richardson discusses details about the University Park area of Denver, Colorado, and the changes that took place since she moved to the neighborhood in 1963. She talks about the activities, interests, and professions of the neighborhood residents, political issues and zoning disputes, and neighborhood activities. She also discusses the local schools and the voluntary busing program to achieve school desegregation in the 1960s.
Oral History Interview with Jean Emery, 1986
Jean Emery discusses details about the University Park area of Denver, Colorado and the changes that took place since she moved to the neighborhood in 1952. She talks about local businesses, commercial and residential development, and transportation systems. Emery also discusses in depth the efforts to use busing both as a means to ease overcrowding in the local schools, including University Park Elementary School, as well as to achieve school desegregation.
Oral History Interview with Jeanette Fishman, 1989 August 15
Topics include growing up in Denver: Jerome Park from the turn of the century to the 1930s, Bloomfield Park, Rude Park and the West Side. Talks about neighborhood integration. Parents knew each other in Austria and reunited in New York, married in Denver. Jeannette taught in DPS.
Rachel Noel for Colorado Reflections
University of Denver Alumna A. Helen Anderson, 1929-1956
B.A., 1914; M.A., 1931