Our Gathering Places Oral History Project: Interview with David Vassar Taylor

Titles: Our Gathering Places Oral History Project: Interview with David Vassar Taylor (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: David Vassar Taylor was born and educated Minnesota. He received a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota and at the time of the interview seved as Dean of the General College there. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Family background; expectations and responsibilities as a child; activities at Hallie Q. Brown Community Center; neighborhood sports; community stratification based on skin color; church activities; elementary school education; starting a newspaper in fifth grade; learning family genealogy; civil rights struggle; civil disobedience at school; changes brought about by the civil rights struggle; meeting Martin Luther King, Jr.; urban racial violence in Minneapolis in 1968; Minnesota's role in the national struggle; importance of education; University of Minnesota General College; problems with current secondary education schools; the need to train people to be urban educators; the state of civil and human rights today for African Americans; applying one's skills, abilities and attributes to makes the difference in the world; getting around the community (transportation); personal influences; community organizations and creative play as a child.

Dates

• 08/13/1998 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Taylor, David Vassar
• interviewer: Murphy-Gnatz, Mary
• interviewer: Murphy, Nora

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 100
• Accession Number: AV2003.65.18

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Our Gathering Places Oral History Project' <OH 100>

Quantity: 2 hours sound cassette 32 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 02:04:11 running time

Subjects

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