Robert "Larry" Crawford and Charles Crawford
Recorded
February 2, 2024
Archived
February 2, 2024
39:01 minutes
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Id:
mbb000085
Description
Larry Crawford (68) asks his father Charles W. Crawford [no age given] about growing up on a farm in Arkansas in the 1930s, what influenced him to pursue higher education, and about his career in archiving oral history.Subject Log / Time Code
Charles Crawford (CC) shares the history of his name.
Robert "Larry" Crawford (LC) asks CC about growing up on a farm.
CC shares memories of the farm first getting electricity in 1949, when he was in college.
LC asks CC how he got to school as a child.
LC asks CC what influenced him to pursue his education beyond high school.
CC discusses his college education.
CC talks about a mentor he worked with during graduate school.
CC talks about integration in the South.
LC asks CC about his career recording oral history with WWII veterans.
LC asks CC how he got involved in oral history and how he became president of the Oral History Association.
Participants
- Robert "Larry" Crawford
- Charles Crawford