Dorsey Emmett Nunn Interview

Meda Okelo

Oral History Work

Dorsey Emmett Nunn Interview

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Interview of Dorsey Emmett Nunn by Meda Okelo. Topics include: moving with his family to East Menlo Park about 1955; remembering people, places and events from childhood; moving to EPA; how he felt about his schooling; racism encountered; comparing EPA and East Menlo Park; feelings about incorporation; learning to read in prison, helped by Nate Harrington; attending Ravenswood High School; being arrested when he was 19; drug selling in the neighborhood; getting in trouble with the police; writing a book to inspire prisoners to change their lives, and the book’s effects on public policy; founding, with others, Free at Last, All of Us or None, and Formerly Incarcerated and Convicted Peoples; notable people including David Lewis, Vickie Smothers, Eric Walker and Andre Harris; community organizing in various places; why he wrote the book; the impact of EPA and East Menlo Park on his life; returning to EPA in 1981; his vision of the community in 2075; and other topics.

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