Interview of Jesse Milan

Interview of Jesse Milan

Discrimination in housing -- Kansas -- Lawrence -- History

Segregation -- Kansas -- Lawrence -- History

Lawrence (Kan.) -- Race relations -- History

Ordinance 3749 (Lawrence, Kan.)

Jayhawk Plunge (Lawrence, Kan.)

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (Lawrence, Kan.)

Oral history interview with Jesse Milan, who was a teacher in the Lawrence public schools and the president of the Lawrence chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) at the time that Lawrence's fair housing ordinance was passed in July 1967. This interview was conducted by Tom Arnold on October 21, 2016, as part of the Lawrence Fair Housing Ordinance 50th Anniversary Oral History Project.

Milan, Jesse

Lawrence Fair Housing Ordinance 50th Anniversary Oral History Project

City of Lawrence, Human Relations Division (Lawrence, Kan.)

10/21/2016

Arnold, Tom

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Lawrence (Kan.)

1946 - 1967

Arnold, Tom

Milan, Jesse