“The windows did not have window guards...”
Marvin Goldstein (L), who fell out of a window of his family's apartment when he was 3 years old, tells his son, Eric (R), how he survived.
Recorded in New York, NY.
Category: Growing Up
“When the school blew up, the ink bottles on the desk flew clear to the ceiling.”
97-year-old Willis Cressman, who survived the Bath School disaster of 1927, with Johanna Cushman-Balzer, the daughter of his younger sister, Wilma, who was also at the school that day. For images from the disaster, click here.
Recorded in DeWitt, MI.
91-year-old Donald Huffman talks about surviving the Bath School disaster of 1927. For images from the disaster, click here.
Recorded in Cedar Springs, MI.
“We had to do a good deed every day...”
John Hope Franklin, the late scholar of African American history, tells his son, John, about being a Boy Scout during the 1920s.
Recorded in Tulsa, OK, in partnership with National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC).
“Everywhere we went my mother would make sure that they enrolled us in school.”
Lourdes Villanueva tells her son Roger about growing up in a family of migrant workers.
Recorded in Tampa, FL, in partnership with Redlands Christian Migrant Association.
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“As long as there was one black child left in town, they had to keep the school open.”
Reverend James Seawood remembers how African-American families were forced out of Sheridan, Arkansas, when the schools attempted to integrate.
Recorded in Staten Island, NY, in partnership with the Sandy Ground Historical Society.
