Themes:
Education - Ravenswood City School District
Education - Ravenswood High School
Education - Nairobi Schools
Notable Visitors
Incorporation - 1980 & After
Crime
People of EPA
Subjects:
Martha Hanks, Joseph Goodwill, Nairobi Day School, Nairobi High School, Muhammad Ali, G&S Market Grocery Store, EPA Teen Summer Project
Date of Creation or Publication:
9/16/2022
Creator
Meda O. Okelo
Donor
Martha Hanks
Language
English
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Interview of Martha Hanks by Meda Okelo. Topics include how she arrived in East Palo Alto; her education at Kavanaugh, Green Oaks and Ravenswood High School; her parents' occupations; white flight; her children's education; EPA in the 1980s, teaching at the Nairobi Schools, Muhammad Ali at Flood School; murder capital, her father, Joseph Goodwill, involvement in incorporation; and other topics.
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