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Dawson, Frances (1903-1995): Interview and memoir
Collection — Container: Tapes et al
Identifier: O-D324
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ILLINOIS GENERAL ASSEMBLY ORAL HISTORY PROGRAM
Dawson, member of the Illinois House of Representatives 1957-71, recalls her childhood during the first two decades of the century near Des Moines, Iowa, farm activities, her education at Simpson College and Northwestern University, and her participation in Evanston civic organizations. She discusses her years in the Illinois General Assembly, campaigning, legislation regarding education, revenue, water fluoridation public aid, health, welfare,...
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Dawson, Sid: Interview and Memoir
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Identifier: O-D323
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Sid Dawson, J. Richard Lawwell, William J. Moyer, Captain Thomas J. Reynolds
STEAMBOATS AND INLAND RIVERS
This memoir consists of four separate interviews with individuals who have lived and worked on the Ohio River. Reynolds discusses running a showboat; Lawwell recalls the 1913 Manchester, Ohio flood and his grandfather Captain Prather; Moyer recalls the 1913 Dayton, Kentucky flood and the 1917 ice flood; and Dawson, the leader of the Riverboat Ramblers Band discusses showboat bands and...
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Day, Phoebe Mitchell (1895-1985): Interview and memoir
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Identifier: O-D333
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BLACK COMMUNITY PROJECT
Phoebe Day discusses her life in Springfield: her neighbors and neighborhood, her beauty shop business, marriages, and her husband's furniture refinishing business. She recalls her treatment as an office building matron at the Centennial Building under the administrations of Secretaries of State Edward Barnett and Paul Powell. She recalls the 1908 Springfield race riot and the destruction it caused, invasion of her home by soldiers, and efforts to protect the...
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Day, William (1912-2002): Interview and memoir
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Identifier: O-D334
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ILLINOIS STATECRAFT
William Day, former reporter for the Illinois State Journal, recalls his experiences covering statehouse affairs, the operations and personalities of Illinois government, Illinois politicians and journalists, Springfield in the 1930's, and the work of the Illinois Legislative Council. He discusses Paul Powell, Henry Horner, John Touhy, Richard Ogilvie, Dan Walker, and the Orville Hodge scandal. He describes his work for Illinois Issues, DuPage County Life, Bloomington...
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Day, William and Gladys: Interview and memoir
Collection — Container: Tapes et al
Identifier: O-D335
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CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH
Bill and Gladys Day, members of Springfield's Christ Church, recall church members, leaders, and activities. They discuss the choir, rectors, women's auxiliary, clubs and organizations, changes in dress, architecture, doctrine, services, and membership which have taken place over the years. They also compare their experiences at Christ Church to other Episcopalian churches they have attended. 2 tapes, 180 mins., 58 pp.
Interview by Sandy Armbruster, 1981...
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De Grazia, Victor: Interview and memoir
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Identifier: O-D364
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ILLINOIS STATECRAFT
De Grazia, former campaign manager and deputy to governor Dan Walker, discusses his education and early involvement in politics; managing Abner Mikva's 1955 campaign for state representative, service as Executive Director of the Committee on Illinois Government and of the Democratic Federation of Illinois. He discusses Walker's gubernatorial campaign and governorship; meeting Walker; the 1970 campaign for governor, campaigning techniques, commercials and the media, and...
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DeBoice, Benjamin S. (Judge) (1889-1982): Interview and memoir
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Identifier: O-D352
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Judge DeBoice, a Republican probate judge 1930-50, recalls political figures at the local, state, and national level; presidential campaigns, National Conventions of the 30's and 40's, state and Sangamon County politics, his law practice near Clinton, Dewitt County history, and Illinois land barons. He discusses his family history, military service during WWI, the 1918 influenza epidemic, prohibition, and the effects of the Great Depression. He also recalls a 1916 arson trial tried by Tim...
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Deck, Patricia Pedigo b. 1922: Interview and memoir
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Identifier: O-D357
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Deck discusses her experiences as a young women during WWII on the homefront in St. Louis: marrying a soldier, home life, rationing, coping with the absence of her husband, and children. Also mentions St. Louis before the war, high school, and attending Monticello College in Godfrey, Illinois.
1 tape, 45 mins., 17 pp.
Interview by Jeffrey A. Eldred, 1993
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Dellinger, David b. 1915: Interview and memoir
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Identifier: O-D381D
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WWII CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS PROJECT
Dellinger, one of eight Union Seminary students jailed for refusing to register for the draft during WWII, discusses the events and people who have influenced his pacifism, his decision not to register, and his subsequent prison terms. He also discusses his involvement with various radical causes, publication of his magazine Liberation, organizing the Intentional Community at Glen Gardiner, New Jersey, Dr. Martin Luther King and the Civil Rights...
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Dellinger, Elizabeth (Peterson) b. 1920: Interview and memoir
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Identifier: O-D381E
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WWII CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTORS PROJECT
Elizabeth Dellinger, wife of one of the eight WWII conscientious objectors from Union Seminary, discusses the influences which led her to pacifism/socialism, the effects of her husband's trial and prison terms on the family, her family's alternative lifestyle, her relationship with her husband, communal life, and feminism.
1 tape, 90 mins., 19 pp.
Interview by C. Arthur Bradley, 1989
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