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Oral history interview of Grace Hale

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Description of content: Ms. Hale talks about how the Ku Klux Klan threatened father to give up job at Pell's fish market in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, as well as her activism - including sit-ins - with the Congress of Racial Equality as a University of Denver student in the 1940s. , Physical Description: One cassette, intermittently cuts out, ends abruptly. Digital version available for listening on SoundCloud. , Recording length: 12 minutes. , Project description: Thanks to the generosity of the John W. Emery Family, History Colorado hired an Assistant Curator of Oral History in 2019 to manage all aspects of History Colorado�s oral history collections. The goal of the project includes adding the material to the Argus database and increasing its exposure and access.

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History Colorado

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Plains to Peaks Collective