Oral History Interview with Marilyn Jean Johnson, March 24, 2014
Description:
Interview with Marilyn Jean Johnson, an African-American resident of Fort Worth, Texas, from Champaign, Illinois, who moved to Texas during the civil rights era. Johnson, accompanied by her neighbor Exie Jean Alaman Morne'y, discusses the differences between life in Illinois and the segregated South, her first instances of discrimination, desegregation in Fort Worth, the Wright Amendment, Juneteenth, neighborhoods and housing, differences between Dallas and Fort Worth, persistent racism, and Ca…
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Date:
March 24, 2014
Creator:
Travis, Sarah & Johnson, Marilyn Jean
Partner:
UNT Oral History Program