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Working in a Psychiatric Hospital

Contributed on January 07, 2008

By: bwatkins

Memories of working in a famous Menninger Hospital project "Ward H" and dealing with an issue in s segregated cafe
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Topeka Kansas, psychiatric, hospitalsegregated, cafe

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The Promoters All-black Basketball Team

Contributed on November 23, 2007

By: bwatkins

Memories of a black basketball team in Lawrence, Kansas, in the 1920s to 1950
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segregation, race, Lawrence Kansas, basketball

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Memories of the Midwest at Mid-century

Contributed on November 23, 2007

By: bwatkins

Memories of childhood games, the black social network, the 1960s, and the Mason-Dixon Line
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Lawrence Kansas, children's games, social network, segregated theaters, shopping and eating, travelling to the South, 1960s

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Childhood and Beyond

Contributed on November 23, 2007

By: bwatkins

Memories of growing up, childhood discipline, and upward mobility
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Buffalo Soldiers, Lawrence Kansas, childhood discipline, upward mobility

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Growing up in the Great Depression

Contributed on November 23, 2007

By: bwatkins

Growing up in the 1930s and the importance of church
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Great Depression, race, church, Lawrence Kansas

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