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Oral History Interview with Eddie Griffin, January 31, 2014

Description: Interview with Eddie Griffin, an African-American historian and activist from Fort Worth, Texas. Griffin discusses his family origins, growing up in segregated Fort Worth, the Fort Worth economy and discrimination, white neighborhoods, attending I. M. Terrell High School, black newspapers and histories, JFK's visit, attending Arlington State College, being drafted into the Army and stationed in Germany, becoming a revolutionary, robbing a series of banks, being incarcerated, activism in prison … more
Date: January 31, 2014
Creator: Moye, Todd & Griffin, Eddie
Partner: UNT Oral History Program
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