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GanttDoris_2017-09-26_credit_clean.mp3
Recording of interview with Doris Gantt done on September 26, 2017 at the Martin Luther King Jr. Apartments in Stamford, Connecticut. Ms. Gantt talks about moving to Stamford from Alabama for domestic work and her life and family here.

IngramGeneral_2017-09-26_credit_cleaned.mp3
Recording of interview with General Ingram done on September 26, 2017 at the Martin Luther King Jr. Apartments in Stamford, Connecticut. Mr. Ingram talks about moving to Stamford in the 1960s and his life and experiences here.

JohnsonJean_2017-09-26_cleaned_credit.mp3
Recording of interview with Jean Johnson on September 26, 2017 at the Martin Luther King Jr. Apartments in Stamford, Connecticut. Ms. Johnson talks about her childhood in Stamford and her memories of the downtown area.

KatzJerome_2017-08-29_cleaned_credit.mp3
Recording of interview with Jerome Katz at the Bell Apartments in Stamford, Connecticut. He talks about the places he has lived, the businesses he had in Stamford and how he has observed Stamford changing.

PerezOmar_2017-09-26_cleaned_credit.mp3
Recording of interview with Omar Perez at the Martin Luther King Jr. Apartments in Stamford, Connecticut. He talks about how growing up in Stamford made him ready to accept and blend into a multicultural society. He mentions how much of Stamford…

StrainDianeSmith_2017-07-14_credit.mp3
Recording of interview with Diane Smith Strain at the Bell Apartments in Stamford, Connecticut. She talks about being born in Stamford and growing up as a Catholic in the city. She discusses the schools and churches she attended as well as some of…

LowenthalMort_2017-07-24_credit.mp3
Recording of interview with Mort Lowenthal at the Ferguson Library in Stamford, Connecticut. He talks about his time serving on the Stamford Human Rights Commission and how it would listen to and adjudicate human rights complaints. Mr. Lowenthal…

JorgensenMabel_2017-10-10_credit_cleaned.mp3
Recording of interview with Mabel Jorgensen and Bruce Bird done on October 10, 2017 at the Ferguson Library in Stamford, Connecticut. They talk about their past together in Stamford and the World War II museum they are trying to open in Vermont.

MetwallyMargaret_2017-05-30_credit.mp3
Recording of interview with Margaret Metwally at the Ferguson Library in Stamford, Connecticut. She talks briefly about her life and work before coming to Stamford and then about raising her family in Stamford through the 1980s and 90s.

DiMattiaSusan_tellyourstorypdf_001.pdf
Pamphlet providing information on the Corinthian Bench public art that was installed outside the main branch of the Ferguson Library in Stamford, Connecticut on October 27, 1988. It was the third of four public art installations in Stamford that…
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