Sujette Crank oral history interview, 1993 Apr. 12.

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Sujette Crank oral history interview, 1993 Apr. 12.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38728013

The collection consists of an oral history interview with Sujette Crank on April 12, 1993 in which she discusses her early family life; Morris Brown College; early schooling; Northwestern University; Evanston, Illinois; black life at Northwestern; Alpha Kappa Alpha; local community service; sororities' role in Evanston; fundraisers; mother's role; teaching at Washington High School; Jane Boyd; community house in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Chicago YWCA; segregation at the YWCA; workshops at the YWCA; operating a day camp; Metropolitan Education Group; Phyllis Wheatly YWCA; Mamie Kay Taylor; struggles to promote desegregation at the Wheatley YMCA; the Chicago YWCA and unionism; Helen Vanderweslein; forming a union at the YWCA; and AFL-CIO. She also discucces forming a union at the Chicago YWCA; AFL and CIO competition; Mamie Taylor; highlights of tenure at YWCA; raising money; membership drives; Dr. Harry B. Richardson; YMCA and YWCA differences; prominent contributors to the YWCA; building a stronger base for the YWCA; Harvest Tea; leaving the YWCA; the Equal Opportunities Administration (EOA); Robert Thompson; EOA; Frankie Adams; animosity toward the EOA; EOA spending; poverty; Ku Klux Klan; Calvin Craig; Model Cities program; instinctive politics in the black community; John Calhoun; mass conventions in the 1960s; Q.V. Williamson; 1965 riots; Ivan Allen Jr.; community's reaction to the building of Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium; Deacon Peters; Edward Moody; Mattie Ansley; Ethel Matthews; and highlights of EOA career.

2 audiotapes ; cassette.Transcript (68 p.)

Georgia State University

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SNAC Resource ID: 7406574

Georgia State University

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