Oral history interview with Evelyn Gammon, 1999
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- Name
- Gammon, Evelyn (Interviewee)
- Michaels, Sheila, 1939-2017 (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Evelyn Gammon, 1999
- Other Titles
- Reminiscences of Evelyn Gammon, 1999; Oral history of Evelyn Gammon, 1999
- Abstract
- In this interview, Evelyn Gammon discusses her involvement with the St. Louis, Missouri chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE). She describes the Jefferson Bank demonstrations of 1963. She speaks at length about her experience being the first Black telephone operator at Southwestern Bell Telephone Company. She delves into the inner workings of St. Louis CORE, and describes different conf licts and schisms within the organization
- Collection Name
- Sheila Michaels civil rights organization oral history collection
- Subjects
- Civil rights movements--History--20th century.--United States; Civil rights demonstrations--Missouri; Telecommunication--Employees; United States Race relations 20th century; Gammon, Evelyn; St. Louis Committee of Racial Equality; Southwestern Bell Telephone Company
- Format
- oral histories
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1999
- Physical Description
- 66 pages
- Note (Biographical)
- Evelyn Gammon was born in St. Louis, Missouri. She was raised in racially-conscious family. She attended DeAndreis High School. She first got involved with CORE in 1963 at the age of seventeen years after being introduced to the organization by her ne ighbor, Loretta Hall. She was hired as the first Black telephone operator at Southwestern Bell Telephone Company at eighteen years of age. Gammon held many different positions within the company over the thirty years she worked there
- Note
- Interviewed by Sheila Michaels on September 16, 1999
- Note (Provenance)
- Sheila Michaels, Gift circa 1999-2005
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 11710034
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-s0mh-y059
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.