"Point of View" television interview with Fluker Walton, Sr., R. L. Ramsey, Elizabeth Green, and Jessie McCants by Booker T. Scruggs [audio recording and transcript]
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OHP52POV1a_d.mp3 - Title
- "Point of View" television interview with Fluker Walton, Sr., R. L. Ramsey, Elizabeth Green, and Jessie McCants by Booker T. Scruggs [audio recording and transcript]
- Description
- Interview for the television program "Point of View" (WDEF) with representatives from the East Ninth Street Community Development Corporation: Fluker Walton Sr. (26 Aug 1890-26 Dec 1983), R. L. Ramsey (29 Oct 1944-18 Nov 1994), Elizabeth Green (?-1982), and Jesse McCants (13 Feb 1936-13 Aug 2013) by host Booker T. Scruggs. Topics discussed include history of and future economic development plans for Chattanooga's Ninth Street area (now Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard). Several early Black businesses and professions are mentioned as well as the role and goals of the East Ninth Street Community Development Corp.
- Interviewer
- Scruggs, Booker T., 1907-1996
- Extent
- 1 audiocassette (25 minutes)
- 1 transcript (10 pages)
- Collection
- Chattanooga Public Library Oral History Collection
- Subject
- African Americans -- Tennessee -- Chattanooga -- History
- Streets -- Tennessee -- Chattanooga
- Economic development projects -- Tennessee -- Chattanooga
- African American business enterprises
- Walton, Fluker, 1890-1983
- Ramsey, R. L.
- Green, Elizabeth
- McCants, Jesse
- Rights
- No Copyright
- Bibliographic Citation
- Oral History Collection. Chattanooga Public Library.
- Relation
- Index to the Oral History Collection
- Identifier
- OHP 52
- Type
- Sound
- Text
- Language
- English
- Provenance
- Gift, 1982.
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