Larry Calloway Interview

Meda Okelo

Oral History Work

Larry Calloway Interview

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Interview of Larry Calloway by Meda Okelo. Topics include: moving to EPA from Hunter’s Point in San Francisco at age 13; comparison of the two places; demographics of EPA at the time; his childhood friends; St. John’s Church; his parents and siblings; schooling at Green Oaks and Ravenswood High School; changes at Ravenswood after Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot; notable teachers and friends; Nairobi Movement in EPA in the 1970’s; businesses in Nairobi Shopping Center; annexation of land by other cities; Whiskey Gulch; movement for incorporation; serving on the Drew Health Foundation Board; crime after incorporation and local crime prevention efforts led by his wife and others; Just Us and Free at Last; why he moved to San Jose; his continued connection to EPA, what he thinks of it now and his hopes for the future; and how St. John’s Church is changing.

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