Ballard, Jan

Date:
1998-11-02
Length:
120 minutes
Interviewer:
Campisano, Deborah
Transcription available:
yes
Series:
General collection
Series ID:
0000-000
Interview Number(s):
2015_70_1
2015_70_2
Summary:
Jann Westerfield Ballard talks about her life experiences growing up in the Okolona community and the experiences of African-American property owners on Cooper Chapel and Maple Roads, their community during the early 1950s, and how it changed or remained the same in the following forty year. The interview also covers Ballard's experience of public school integration and busing protests in the Cooper Chapel Road neighborhood and the community of Okolona.
Topic(s):
African Americans--Kentucky--Louisville, Busing for school integration--Kentucky--Louisville, Okolona (Louisville, Ky.), Integration