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Candace Thompson Oral History

Videotaped oral history interview with Candace Thompson. An award-winning community activist and former administrator with the Dallas Housing Crisis Center, Thompson served in AmeriCorps in Florida. She experienced racism and prejudice attending schools in the Dallas area in the 1980s and 1990s. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on November 7, 2018 by Stephen Fagin and C. Dealey Campbell. The interview is fifty-nine minutes long.

Object Details
Object title:

Candace Thompson Oral History

Date:

11/07/2018

Medium:

Born digital (.m2ts file)

Dimensions:

Duration: 59 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2018.001.0129

Curatorial Note:

At the time this interview was recorded, Ms. Thompson was community outreach manager for Baylor Scott & White Health in Dallas. Prior to that, she was the director of community outreach at Jubilee Park and Community Center in Dallas. In 2018, she was a recipient of the Catalyst Award during the Juanita Craft Humanitarian Awards, hosted by the State Fair of Texas and the Juanita Craft Civil Rights House. This oral history was one in a series of joint interviews conducted by The Sixth Floor Museum in partnership with the Juanita Craft Civil Rights House and Steering Committee. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator

Candace Thompson Oral History

Videotaped oral history interview with Candace Thompson. An award-winning community activist and former administrator with the Dallas Housing Crisis Center, Thompson served in AmeriCorps in Florida. She experienced racism and prejudice attending schools in the Dallas area in the 1980s and 1990s. Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on November 7, 2018 by Stephen Fagin and C. Dealey Campbell. The interview is fifty-nine minutes long.

Object Details
Object title:

Candace Thompson Oral History

Date:

11/07/2018

Terms:

Oral histories

Community leaders

Racism

Housing & Urban Development

Dallas

Florida

Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)

Community Leaders (OHC)

Medium:

Born digital (.m2ts file)

Dimensions:

Duration: 59 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2018.001.0129

Curatorial Note:

At the time this interview was recorded, Ms. Thompson was community outreach manager for Baylor Scott & White Health in Dallas. Prior to that, she was the director of community outreach at Jubilee Park and Community Center in Dallas. In 2018, she was a recipient of the Catalyst Award during the Juanita Craft Humanitarian Awards, hosted by the State Fair of Texas and the Juanita Craft Civil Rights House. This oral history was one in a series of joint interviews conducted by The Sixth Floor Museum in partnership with the Juanita Craft Civil Rights House and Steering Committee. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator