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Transcript of oral history interviews with Yvonne Baskerville. In her interviews Yvonne Baskerville discusses her early education as an African American, detailing her experience as a student at Dunbar High School, a segregated black high school. Baskerville also describes her sense of shock in hearing the the news of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. She also details her encounter with the D.C.'s rodent population.Born in Pittsburgh, Pennslyvania in 1941, Yvonne Baskerville later moved to Washington D.C. with her family.DC Public Library, Special Collections, OHP 25 South of U Oral History Project - Life, Riots, and Renewal in Shaw
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Riley, Eric, interviewer; Danielson, Casey, interviewer; Hirsch, Nicholas
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