Rodney Layman Reid

African American, Childhood, Civil Rights, Indiana, Oral History

1968 was a definitive time for Rodney Reid. He started high school at the beginning of the mandate for desegregation. Rodney helped to found the Human Relations Council which brought a better balance to student government.

Betty Shaw

African American, Careers, Indiana, Oral History, Values

This excerpt of Betty Shaw’s life story focuses on the examples set by her parents, how she became a trail blazing manager, entrepreneur and active community volunteer.

Stephen “Pete” Freeman

Childhood, Family, Indiana

Pete Freeman tells the first of a series of life stories about being introverted and deciding for himself at the age of six that it was okay! Part 1 – Runaway.

David Brian Lawrence

Careers, Culture, Performing Arts

David Lawrence tells of an early defining experience with Art in the form of music that helped to set his career path toward Arts Administration.

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