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Audio clip from interview with Jean S. Childs, December 2, 2013

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Childs, Jean S White, Claytee D

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Part of an interview with Jean S. Childs, December 2, 2013. In this clip, Jean Childs describes an experience she had helping someone at the Concentrated Employment Program.I start talking and they say how old are you, Jean? But anyway, so that's where the name KCEP comes from. So the Concentrated Employment Program was the first Manpower. Now, it's been called a lot of things since then—CETA or whatever it is—but it's still the same thing. They started dealer schools, teaching black people how to deal, bartend, all these things that they had not been allowed to do. Some of the first dealers on the Strip came out of those dealer schools. We had adult education schools. I worked with the adult education school under Verla. That was one of the supporter services. So we were getting people GEDs and what have you. We also got people if they were eligible for welfare, if they needed other services, whatever, so that they could be ready for jobs, training, whatever. I'm going to tell you a story. This is a true story. This is one of the most fascinating things that ever happened to me and I was a very young woman; that's why I knew I could do all thi
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