Interview with Lillian Gillespie Delaney, May 29, 1997
Project: Kentucky History: The Daily Aesthetic, An Oral History of a Southern City's Black Park System, 1916-1956 Oral History Project
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Personal history, first teaching experience, first experience working in parks in 1943, park matrons, 4th of July in Douglass Park, games for adults, boundball, differences in recreation between boys and girls, Douglass High School, county park locations, park system segregation, carnivals, dances at Douglass High School, Dunbar High School, Lucy Estill, John Wil Brown at Speigel Heights, Smoke Richardson and Charles Young Community Center, Apex Club, Copper Dime, Douglass Park swimming pool, Taylor Seals, parks across the city and surrounding neighborhoods, William GoodwinInterview Accession
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Delaney, Lillian Gillespie Interview by Boyd L. Shearer, Jr.. 29 May. 1997. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Delaney, L.G. (1997, May 29). Interview by B. L. S Jr.. Kentucky History: The Daily Aesthetic, An Oral History of a Southern City's Black Park System, 1916-1956 Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Delaney, Lillian Gillespie, interview by Boyd L. Shearer, Jr.. May 29, 1997, Kentucky History: The Daily Aesthetic, An Oral History of a Southern City's Black Park System, 1916-1956 Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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