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Pettiford, Jack (1920-1982): Interview and Memoir

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: P453

Scope and Contents

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

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Extent

6.00 items

Language of Materials

English

Related Materials

Interview and memoir in the Illinois Digital Archives.

http://www.idaillinois.org/u?/uis,3585

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Repository Details

Part of the UIS Archives/Special Collections Repository

Contact:
Archives/Special Collections LIB 144
One University Plaza, MS BRK 140
Springfield IL 62703-5407 US
217-206-6520