Celestine Bloomfield

African American, Childhood, Civil Rights, Indiana

Celestine Bloomfield talks about her early love of reading and the realization that school integration in Gary, Indiana was not working well for African Americans

Cynthia H Goodyear

Childhood, Family, Oral History

Cynthia Goodyear talks about how WWII impacted her childhood and how the nation’s sense of war since has changed.

Shirley Anne Charles

Childhood, Family, Oral History

One of 13 children growing up in Washington, Indiana in the 1940’s, Shirley Charles tells of shared wardrobes and the time consuming chore of washing clothes.

Gwen Althauser Betor

Family, Indiana, Oral History

In this excerpt of Gwen Althauser Betor’s life story we hear how she is a survivor with a love of life, family and the poetry of the Hoosier Poet, James Whitcomb Riley.

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