by podbean | Mar 14, 2025 | 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 –...
by podbean | Mar 14, 2025 | 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...
by podbean | Mar 14, 2025 | Education, Friendship, Immigration
17 year-old North Central High School student Sigal Tavel tells about volunteering to be a tutor for young Burmese students who needed help with English at Nora Elementary. Hear her story and advice for young people who may wonder what it takes to help...
by podbean | Mar 14, 2025 | Childhood, Family, Immigration
Vop Osilli’s earliest memories are from Nigeria at the beginning of civil war when his mother, an American, decided it was time to...
by podbean | Mar 14, 2025 | Careers, Education, Oral History
Commuting from Tallahassee, Florida to Pelham, Georgia, Marcia Baker taught in an all boys school in the early 1970’s. She tells about bringing a new cassette recorder and tough love to her classroom of underprivileged...