Themes:
People of EPA
Political Activism & Social Justice - Civil Rights & Black Power Movement
Gentrification
Housing
Education - Nairobi Schools
Incorporation - 1980 & After
Economic Development
Subjects:
Green Oaks Academy, Ravenswood City School District, George Murray, Kavanaugh School, Black Panthers, Joseph Goodwill, Gertrude Wilks, Martha Goodwill Murray Hanks, Barbara Mouton, Ravenswood High School
Date of Creation or Publication:
5/3/2021
Creator
Dianne Otterby
Donor
Martha Hanks
Language
English
Copyright Statement:
This digital object may not be sold or redistributed, copied or distributed as a photograph, electronic file, or any other media without express written consent from the copyright holder and the EPACA. The user is responsible for all issues of copyright. If you are the rightful copyright holder of this item and its use online constitutes an infringement of your copyright, please contact us by email at info@epacommunityarchive.org to discuss its removal from the archive.
Interview of Martha Hanks by Dianne Otterby. Topics include: the family migration to East Palo Alto; her schooling; living in the house that her father had built in 1958; founding of Nairobi Schools; teaching at Nairobi Schools and Ravenswood City School District; the future of EPA; and others.
Collections that feature this oral-history
EPACA Oral History Collection
Oral history interviews conducted by volunteers of the East Palo Alto Community Archive to captur...