Category: Struggle

“The students wouldn't speak to me...”

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A.P. Tureaud Jr. (R) tells his friend Steven Walkley (L) about becoming the first African-American undergraduate at Louisiana State University in 1953.

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Recorded in New York, NY.

“It was just happenstance that he happened to be there.”

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Former World Trade Center Director and CEO Charles Maikish remembers John DiGiovanni, who died in the World Trade Center bombing on February 26, 1993.

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Recorded in New York, NY.

“She died on an incident that I sent her on.”

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Retired Sgt. 1st Class Max Voelz remembers his wife, Staff Sgt. Kimberly Voelz, who died in Iraq while disarming an IED. Read more…

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Recorded in Baltimore, MD.

“I just hugged the man who murdered my son.”

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Mary Johnson speaks with Oshea Israel, who killed her son in 1993. Read more…

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Recorded in Minneapolis, MN.

“The next day, the police car pulled up and they said, 'We're taking y'all to jail.'”

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James Hanover Thompson (L) tells his brother Dwight (R) about his involvement in the "Kissing Case" of 1958. Read more…

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Recorded in Wilmington, NC.

“I wasn't like other kids.”

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Nineteen-year-old Noe Rueda (R) talks to his high school economics teacher, Alex Fernandez (L), about growing up poor in Chicago. Read more…

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Recorded in Madison, WI.

“The doctor told my parents that I was hopelessly insane.”

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Jon Brock tells his daughter Glenny Brock about being committed to Bryce Hospital, Alabama's oldest psychiatric facility, in 1965.

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Recorded in Birmingham, AL.

“He was so busy that he would schedule surgeries for three and four in the morning.”

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Linda Kenney (R) Miller and her sister Diane Kenney (L) remember their grandfather, Dr. John A. Kenney, who founded the first hospital for African Americans in Newark, NJ.

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Recorded in Montgomery, AL.

“The guy that was interviewing told me I was too little.”

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Dee Dickson remembers trying to get a job as a shipyard electrician in the 1970s.

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Recorded in Biloxi, MS.

“You don't have to be dirty to be poor.”

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94-year-old Mary Van Beke tells her son, Charles, about growing up in the 1920s.

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Recorded in Knoxville, TN.

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