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Interview with Margie Abrams about living in Riverside Terrace from 1950 to 1967. She describes the importance of having different types of neighbors. Abrams discusses her reaction to the "This is ...
Marvin Zindler remembers the Jack Caesar bombing. He recalls it being unusual for an event regarding Black people to make the news. He views the bombing as more of a scare tactic than an attempted ...
Mary Craft and Eugene Smith talk about moving to Riverside from University Oaks. They talk about the emergence and impact of the Black middle class. They talk about the white perception of what it ...
Mary Lou Mailman discusses "white flight" in the neighborhood. She voices the opinion that young children benefited from living in an integrated environment, but it was harder for adolescents. She ...
Dr. Milton Littell discusses how he came up with the phrase "This is Our Home, It is Not for Sale." He says he never felt threatened and describes the people who moved into Riverside as well-cultur...
Nat Pryzant recalls showing off Riverside to out-of-towners as the second nicest part of town, after River Oaks. He talks about the relationship his parents had with their Black neighbors. He talks...
P. B. Smith talks about the relationship between Jewish and non-Jewish residents in Riverside in the late 1950s, and the role the bayou played with regard to neighborhood demographics. He talks abo...
Katherine Howe talks about moving away from Riverside. Harry Brochstein talks about the development of Riverside. He says what upset the residents was not integration with the Black community, but ...
Quentin Mease discusses the "white flight" in Riverside and the Jack Ceasar bombing. He goes on to discuss the Quentin Mease Community Hospital on N. MacGregor, which was designed to be a back-up h...
Ray Dickens describes what Riverside was like when he lived there, and talks about the neighborhood's reaction to the bombing of Jack Caesar's home and his family moving in as the first Black famil...
Riva Deutser and Jeanne Mandell describe their Riverside home, and the various additions made to it. Deutser talks about having to leave Riverside because the family felt the neighborhood was deter...
Rabbi Robert I. Kahn discusses how he came to live in Riverside. He talks about the attitudes Jewish residents in Riverside held toward integration with the Black community. Kahn talks about the pr...
Dr. and Mrs. Terry talk about the construction of their Riverside home, and its decor. They talk about the importance of using John Chase as architect for their home. They blame the deterioration o...
Father Robert Johnson discusses what things at St. James' Episcopal Church were like when he began in the early 1950s. He says there was concern and anxiety about integration, but that the congrega...
Rubye Johnson talks about how she came to know some of the Jewish families in Riverside, and her impressions of them. She talks about the differences between those who chose to live north of the ba...
Sammye Hughes shares memories of moving to Riverside as a child, and being the first Black child on her block. Hughes voices her concerns about incoming neighbors and the prices of housing in River...
Shirley Bannerot reflects on choosing Riverside as her residence, and discusses the effects on integration on the neighborhood. She talks about the civic club's involvement in starting the yard sig...