Interview with Mark Turner
Interview with Mark Turner about his and his family's history in Westport. Turner discusses recreation in Swope Park, Fairyland Park, and Mill Creek Park, his experience of segregation at local businesses, finding ways to make money as a kid, and attending an integrated school with primarily white teachers after Brown vs. Board of Education. He also shares memories of St. Luke's Hospital, including its segregation policy in his early life, neighbors working in the laundry, and their chaplain helping the community after a fire at St. James Church. Turner also discusses his experience in higher education as a professor with Metropolitan Community Colleges, and his view of the different expectations of and skillsets taught to white and Black students.
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