BLACK COMMUNITY PROJECT Pettiford discusses life in Springfield: family, high school, race discrimination, service in the Army during WWII, transportation, his employment at Panama Tavern and the Springfield City Street Department, black businesses, the civil rights movement and his work with the Community Action Agency and Neighborhood Youth Corps.

5 tapes, 450 mins., 147 pp. Interview by John Wolfe, 1973 OPEN See collateral file