- Date
- 1985-10-20
- Main contributor
- Schwartz, Jon
- Summary
-
Clen Del Vance, Sr., shares memories of the Jack Caesar bombing, and how it related to southern justice. He talks about his background as a postal worker, and what it meant socially to be a postal worker. He shares a story in which a white realtor tried to enlist him in a blockbusting scheme. He speaks about the relationship between black residents and Jewish residents in Riverside.
- Contributor
- Del Vance, Clen, Sr.
- Genre
- interviews
- Subjects
- Urbanization; Jack Caesar Bombing, 1953; Blockbusting
- Locations
- Riverside, Houston; Houston, Texas
- Collection
- This Is Our Home It Is Not For Sale
- Unit
- University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
- Language
- English
- Terms of Use
- ["In Copyright"]
- Physical Description
- 00:23:26
- Notes
Digitization and access for this item is made possible by a grant from the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services and Texas State Library and Archives Commission (2018).
This interview was used in the creation of Jon Schwartz’s documentary film “This Is Our Home, It Is Not For Sale.”
Collection
University of Houston Libraries Special Collections
Houston History Archives
This Is Our Home, It Is Not For Sale Film Collection
- Other Identifiers
- Digital Object: https://id.lib.uh.edu/ark:/84475/do5767wn53g; Other: ID 2010-020, AV Shelving; ArchivesSpace URI: https://findingaids.lib.uh.edu/repositories/2/archival_objects/35202; Preservation Location: ark:/84475/pm9453ww19r