Larry Patterson remembers the Cuban Missile Crisis and the integration of Clemson University, 2007 September 17
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An edited excerpt with transcript and photograph from an interview with Larry Patterson, conducted on 17 September 2007 by his grandson Alex Williams at the Nashville StoryCorps StoryBooth, located in the Nashville Room of the Nashville Public Library. Patterson shares memories of important historical events he has lived through, including the Cuban Missile Crisis and the integration of Clemson University by Harvey Gantt. The complete, un-edited interview, as well as an index, is available in the Special Collections Division. These interviews were recorded by StoryCorps at the Nashville Public Library with the support of the Nashville Public Library Foundation and are provided courtesy of StoryCorps, a national initiative of Sound Portraits Productions to record and collect oral history interviews. www.storycorps.net
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- African Americans
- Civil Rights
- Clemson
- Clemson (S.C.)
- Clemson University
- College Integration
- Colleges And Universities
- Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
- Education
- Gantt, Harvey B. (Harvey Bernard), 1943
- History
- Interviews
- Military History
- Nashville
- Nashville (Tenn.)
- Patterson, Larry, 1944
- Popular Culture
- Race Relations
- Segregation
- Segregation In Higher Education
- Social Conditions
- Sources
- South Carolina
- Storytelling
- Tennessee
- United States
- Universities
- Universities And Colleges