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Interview session 12, 1986 March 7

 Item — Multiple Containers

Scope and Contents

Tape 15, Side 1, through Tape 16, Side 1. In the twelfth interview session, conducted on March 7, 1986, Bogle discusses her work as a caseworker for the National Urban League’s Project STAR (Serving to Advance Rehabilitation), an outreach program that provided services to low-income families with children with intellectual disabilities; and shares her reasons for leaving the program. She also discusses how Black cultural identity evolved over the 20th century. She speaks further about her work as a caseworker at Good Samaritan Hospital, and about the death of her husband in 1979. She talks about focusing on her work as a writer in the 1980s, and talks about writing for the Portland Observer newspaper.

Dates

  • Creation: 1986 March 7

Creator

Conditions Governing Access

Collection is open for research.

Extent

1.5 audiocassettes (1 hr., 31 min., 41 sec.)

Language of Materials

From the Collection: English

Repository Details

Part of the Oregon Historical Society Research Library Repository

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