Elaine Gurian, Clip 3: Working as a Builder in the 1940s and 1950s
Collection: Queens Memory Collection at the Archives at Queens Library: Elaine Gurian
Date: Time Period: 1940-2018; 2017-08-11; Interview recorded: August 11, 2017
Material: Digital audio recording made using a digital recorder. Dimension:
Total running time: 0:04:10
Creator: Elaine Gurian interviewed by Fran Knipnis
Identifier: aql:24547 gurian-elaine-clip3
Description: Elaine discusses her father’s life as a builder in New York after he escaped the Holocaust. It was legal in the United States at that time to restrict sales (of houses, apartments, etc) to new immigrants such as the Irish, Italians, Asians and Hispanics. This also applied to Blacks.
Creator :
Elaine Gurian interviewed by Fran Knipnis
Date :
Time Period: 1940-2018; 2017-08-11; Interview recorded: August 11, 2017
Summary/Description :
Elaine discusses her father’s life as a builder in New York after he escaped the Holocaust. It was legal in the United States at that time to restrict sales (of houses, apartments, etc) to new immigrants such as the Irish, Italians, Asians and Hispanics. This also applied to Blacks.
Subject :
Discrimination in housing; Construction industry
Rights :
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Coverage :
Locations discussed: Queens, NY Jamaica Estates (New York, N.Y.) Forest Hills (New York, N.Y.) Queens (New York, N.Y.)
Type :
Oral history
Format :
Digital audio recording made using a digital recorder.; Total running time: 0:04:10
Identifier :
aql:24547 gurian-elaine-clip3
Rights Notice
Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
Contact digitalarchives@queenslibrary.org for research and reproduction requests.
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