Videos - East St. Louis Sesquicentennial Summer Celebration
Curtis Louise Paradise Interview
Veria M. Jackson Interview
Dr. Lillian Parks Interview
Earnestine King Laurence Interview
Archie Laurence Interview
William H. Fennoy Interview
Rita Peyton Interview
Reginald Hoover Interview
R.J. Krause Interview
LeAnne Bonner Interview
LaDarious Gully Interview
Kelly Edwards Interview
Katherine Redmond Interview
Juanita Russel Interview
John Eiland Interview
David King Interview
Christine Harden Interview
Bernard King Interview
Amber Adams Interview
Dr. E. Redmond Poem (Pt. 1)
Dr. E. Redmond Poem (Pt. 2)
Interview with Curtis Louise Paradise
Curtis Louise Paradise talks about living in East St. Louis.
East St Louis Sesquicentennial Summer Celebration
2011 marked the 150th year of East St. Louis history. During the weekend of July 8th and 9th, a celebration was held at the East St. Louis Higher Education Center to honor the city's 150th anniversary. The celebration consisted of presentations, film screenings, and cultural exhibits related to East. St. Louis and the community's rich history.
Throughout the celebration, graduate students from SIUE and Washington University in St. Louis collected interview footage from a variety of current and former East St. Louis residents. The interviews were designed to show a picture of the social, economic, and political realities of East St. Louis at various times throughout the city's history - all through first hand accounts of of those who lived it.
Additionally, the gallery contains footage from Dr. Eugene Redmond's poem reading commemorating East St. Louis' 150th anniversary.
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