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Civil rights demonstrations

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

"What Can I Do, What Will I Do" oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: OH WCID
Abstract

The "What Can I Do, What Will I Do" oral history collection interviews four, African-American women all working in the sciences and who grew up in and have worked in the Baltimore area from approximately the mid-1950s through the early-1990s. The narrators discuss their educational backgrounds, upbringing, personal challenges, and each woman's motivations for pursuing her current career.

Dates: 1992

White Tower Restaurant oral history collection

 Collection
Identifier: OH WTR
Abstract

This oral history collection contains interviews with 27 employees and customers of the White Tower restaurant in Baltimore, a hamburger fast food chain, circa 1993-1994. Narrators discuss their memories of White Tower and the social change that took place amid the civil rights movement.

Dates: 1993 October 18 - 1994 October 26