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Alice Tregay
May 06, 2020

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Narrator: Alice Tregay

Interviewer: Morris (Dino) Robinson

Transcriptionist: Audio Transcription Center

Subject-LOC: African Americans — United States — Evanston — Illinois — History 1960-2000 — Housing — Music — Recreation — Segregation — Social Conditions 1964-1975, 1975- —Suburban African Americans — Civil Rights —

Subject-IDA: African Americans Local History Oral History Domestic/Community/Social Life Women Civil Rights

Description: First recording of a total of 6. Alice speaks to her early work in civil rights in Chicago. Efforts included moving into specific white neighborhoods, fighting against Willis Wagons (portable classrooms to keep black kids attending white school classrooms in Chicago). She later was involved in Operation Breadbasket, the predecessor to Operation PUSH

Date Original: June 8, 2012

Coverage Geographic: 408101|Evanston|Populated Place|IL|17|Cook|031|420228N|0874124W|42.0411414|-87.6900587|||||187|614|
Evanston|01/15/1980|03/20/2008

Coverage Temporal: 1950s - 1960s

Type: Sound

Collection Publisher: Shorefront Legacy Center

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