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Grant, Lodge - Interview and Memoir

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Grant, an educator who worked primarily in Hamilton County, Illinois, discusses his years in the teaching profession: teaching and principal positions, service as county superintendent, consolidated schools, and service as the State Superintendent of Public Instruction. He discusses his own rural education, high school years, attending Southern Illinois Normal School (now SIUC), his family background, farm life, WWI, influenza epidemic of 1918, e...
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Anderson, Marilyn [interviewer]
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Keywords

  1. Afro Americans
  2. Cairo (Ill.)
  3. Discrimination
  4. Hamilton County (Ill.)
  5. Illinois Superintendent Of Public Instruction
  6. Illinois, Southern
  7. Ku Klux Klan
  8. Prohibition
  9. Race Discrimination
  10. Southern Illinois University At Carbondale
  11. Teachers
  12. World War, 1939 1945

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