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Carol Lee Whiting, Clip 3: Peaceful Neighborhood

Collection: Queens Memory Project Collection at Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives: Carol Lee Whiting
Date: Time Period: 1943 - 1970; 2012-03-27; Interview recorded: March 27 2012 Material: Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Audacity. Dimension: Total running time: 0:02:02
Creator: Carol Lee Whiting interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt Identifier: aql:20511 whiting_carol_lee_clip3

Description: Carol Lee Whiting recalls the ethnic makeup of her Flushing neighborhood during her childhood through the 1960s. Racial and ethnic tensions were nonexistent, and families looked out for each other. Safety was not a significant issue, she says, until the 1970s.

Collection : aql:20455; aql:20685

Creator : Carol Lee Whiting interviewed by Natalie Milbrodt

Date : Time Period: 1943 - 1970; 2012-03-27; Interview recorded: March 27 2012

Summary/Description : Carol Lee Whiting recalls the ethnic makeup of her Flushing neighborhood during her childhood through the 1960s. Racial and ethnic tensions were nonexistent, and families looked out for each other. Safety was not a significant issue, she says, until the 1970s.

Subject : Ethnic relations; Neighborhoods

Rights : This recording is the property of Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives. Please contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.

Coverage : Locations discussed: Flushing, Queens, NY Flushing (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)

Type : Oral history

Format : Digital audio recording made using TASCAM DR-07 digital recorder and Audacity.; Total running time: 0:02:02

Identifier : aql:20511 whiting_carol_lee_clip3

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Ethnic relations; Neighborhoods

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This recording is the property of Queens College Libraries' Department of Special Collections and Archives. Please contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.


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