838 24 26018 https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/33498701e958a791d6dbffa2466726de.jpg 42f2be99b5dd092a8e4733e37bb6a164 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Robert H. Merrill photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1909/1950 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-222 Description An account of the resource Photographs, negatives, and lantern slides digitized from the papers of engineer and archaeologist Robert H. Merrill. A Grand Rapids native, Merrill held an accomplished career as a civil engineer. He founded the company Spooner & Merrill, which held offices in Grand Rapids and Chicago. From 1919-1921, Merrill lived in China, working as Assistant Principal Engineer on a reconstruction of the Grand Canal - the oldest and longest canal system in the world. Merrill became fascinated by archaeology, and among other projects, he traveled to the Uxmal Pyramids in Yucatan, Mexico, with a research expedition from Tulane University. Merrill's photo collection includes images of his travels and projects, friends and family. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Merrill_FilmPacks_V_25_009 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1939-03-19 Title A name given to the resource Rodeo at Flying V Ranch Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of a group of people on horse-back on a large area of clear ground. A crowd of people are visible on the right side of the frame watching the rodeo performers. Subject The topic of the resource Arizona Rodeos Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/c5a467e51f145cc8f63369a4fc294260.jpg d7f9946fe0eb49bd8a5de739b89a8ec1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Robert H. Merrill photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1909/1950 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-222 Description An account of the resource Photographs, negatives, and lantern slides digitized from the papers of engineer and archaeologist Robert H. Merrill. A Grand Rapids native, Merrill held an accomplished career as a civil engineer. He founded the company Spooner & Merrill, which held offices in Grand Rapids and Chicago. From 1919-1921, Merrill lived in China, working as Assistant Principal Engineer on a reconstruction of the Grand Canal - the oldest and longest canal system in the world. Merrill became fascinated by archaeology, and among other projects, he traveled to the Uxmal Pyramids in Yucatan, Mexico, with a research expedition from Tulane University. Merrill's photo collection includes images of his travels and projects, friends and family. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Merrill_FilmPacks_V_25_010 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1939-03-19 Title A name given to the resource Rodeo egg throwing, Tuscon Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of a group of people running alongside several people on horse-back. Subject The topic of the resource Arizona Rodeos Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/f38d93c89db336af99f666c8df4e4e15.jpg e34f7e8b528e1b1f051827da3737f487 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Faces of Grand Valley Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource University Communications Description An account of the resource A non-comprehensive collection of photographs of Grand Valley faculty, staff, administrators, board members, friends, and alumni. Photos collected by University Communications for use in promotion and information sharing about Grand Valley with the wider community. 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Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RodinMerrill_Photo1 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. University Communications Title A name given to the resource Rodin, Merrill Description An account of the resource Merrill Rodin, Philosophy Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University – History College teachers Universities and colleges – Faculty Michigan Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived University Communications. Vita Files, 1968-2016 (GV012-03) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. 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Title A name given to the resource Faces of Grand Valley Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource University Communications Description An account of the resource A non-comprehensive collection of photographs of Grand Valley faculty, staff, administrators, board members, friends, and alumni. Photos collected by University Communications for use in promotion and information sharing about Grand Valley with the wider community. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960s - 1990s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived GV012-03. University Communications. Vita Files Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copryight Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University College administrators College teachers Colleges and universities -- Faculty Michigan Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-03 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Language A language of the resource eng Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RodinMerrill_Photo2 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. University Communications Title A name given to the resource Rodin, Merrill Description An account of the resource Merrill Rodin, Philosophy Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University – History College teachers Universities and colleges – Faculty Michigan Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived University Communications. Vita Files, 1968-2016 (GV012-03) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. 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Title A name given to the resource Faces of Grand Valley Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource University Communications Description An account of the resource A non-comprehensive collection of photographs of Grand Valley faculty, staff, administrators, board members, friends, and alumni. Photos collected by University Communications for use in promotion and information sharing about Grand Valley with the wider community. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960s - 1990s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived GV012-03. University Communications. Vita Files Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copryight Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University College administrators College teachers Colleges and universities -- Faculty Michigan Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-03 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Language A language of the resource eng Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RodneyCaroline Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. University Communications Title A name given to the resource Rodney, Caroline Description An account of the resource Caroline Rodney, English Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University – History College teachers Universities and colleges – Faculty Michigan Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived University Communications. Vita Files, 1968-2016 (GV012-03) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/2fe9efe5b7189493f845b7d4cf12dfed.jpg c031d1f29359785d0c598a56f9a029c8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Faces of Grand Valley Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource University Communications Description An account of the resource A non-comprehensive collection of photographs of Grand Valley faculty, staff, administrators, board members, friends, and alumni. Photos collected by University Communications for use in promotion and information sharing about Grand Valley with the wider community. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960s - 1990s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived GV012-03. University Communications. Vita Files Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copryight Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University College administrators College teachers Colleges and universities -- Faculty Michigan Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-03 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Language A language of the resource eng Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Rodrigues-FisherLorraine_Photo1 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. University Communications Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1997 Title A name given to the resource Rodrigues-Fisher, Lorraine Description An account of the resource Lorraine Rodrigues-Fisher, Nursing Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University – History College teachers Universities and colleges – Faculty Michigan Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived University Communications. Vita Files, 1968-2016 (GV012-03) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng 1997s https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/2a06ca6a3ade9fb2c908278fc072797b.jpg 09a9ee709e94306b7232650840622240 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Faces of Grand Valley Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource University Communications Description An account of the resource A non-comprehensive collection of photographs of Grand Valley faculty, staff, administrators, board members, friends, and alumni. Photos collected by University Communications for use in promotion and information sharing about Grand Valley with the wider community. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960s - 1990s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived GV012-03. University Communications. Vita Files Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copryight Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University College administrators College teachers Colleges and universities -- Faculty Michigan Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-03 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Language A language of the resource eng Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Title A name given to the resource Faces of Grand Valley Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource University Communications Description An account of the resource A non-comprehensive collection of photographs of Grand Valley faculty, staff, administrators, board members, friends, and alumni. Photos collected by University Communications for use in promotion and information sharing about Grand Valley with the wider community. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960s - 1990s Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived GV012-03. University Communications. Vita Files Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copryight Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University College administrators College teachers Colleges and universities -- Faculty Michigan Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV012-03 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Language A language of the resource eng Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RodriguezDavid Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. University Communications Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1979 Title A name given to the resource Rodriguez, David Description An account of the resource David Rodriguez Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University – History Michigan Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived University Communications. Vita Files, 1968-2016 (GV012-03) Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng 1979s https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/3f42ce1861a47142f6082b8d8b4a5068.jpg 0014c8ec266ad1028d2ba178ad37ac8a Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Robert H. Merrill photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1909/1950 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-222 Description An account of the resource Photographs, negatives, and lantern slides digitized from the papers of engineer and archaeologist Robert H. Merrill. A Grand Rapids native, Merrill held an accomplished career as a civil engineer. He founded the company Spooner & Merrill, which held offices in Grand Rapids and Chicago. From 1919-1921, Merrill lived in China, working as Assistant Principal Engineer on a reconstruction of the Grand Canal - the oldest and longest canal system in the world. Merrill became fascinated by archaeology, and among other projects, he traveled to the Uxmal Pyramids in Yucatan, Mexico, with a research expedition from Tulane University. Merrill's photo collection includes images of his travels and projects, friends and family. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Merrill_Graflex_A_1936_007 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1936-08-28 Title A name given to the resource Rods near garage door Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of three archaeological measuring sticks leaning against the outside wall of a garage to the right of an open door. Subject The topic of the resource Archaeology Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/dc98aa85540400336d3f79d979c2f097.jpg 4c30932577162b487d22b0dc3b57f418 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Douglas R. Gilbert Photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gilbert, Douglas R., 1942-2023 Description An account of the resource Photographs scanned from negatives and transparencies from the Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183). Douglas R. Gilbert (b. 1942) is an American photographer from Michigan. He was born in Holland, Michigan and is the son of Russell W. and Carmen (Andree) Gilbert. Gilbert earned a B.A. in social sciences and art at Michigan State University in 1964, an M.S. in photography from the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology in 1972, and a M.S.W. from Salem State College in 1993. He is married to Barbara (McDonald) Gilbert, and has three daughters, Robyn, Rachel, and Anne. Gilbert took a serious interest in photography at the age of fourteen. In 1963 he joined the staff of Look magazine in New York as the second youngest photojournalist in the magazine's history. As a Look photographer from 1964 to 1966, he photographed folk musician Bob Dylan, the Newport Folk Festival, Simon and Garfunkel, the New York City Financial District, the children and facilities at the Manhattan School for Seriously Disturbed Children. From 1967 to 1969, Gilbert did several shoots, including that of folk singer Janis Ian for Life magazine. After moving to Chicago, Illinois in 1969 to attend the Illinois Institute of Technology, Gilbert conducted notable photo shoots of business and political figure Lenore Romney, and pursued more personal and artistic photography, focusing on urban and rural landscapes in Illinois and Michigan. He then joined the faculty of Wheaton College, where he taught from 1972 to 1982. In 1993, Gilbert graduated from Salem State College, Massachusetts, with a Masters in Social Work, and later pursued a second career as a psychotherapist. Douglas Gilbert died in June 2023. Throughout his photography career, he pursued both freelance commercial work as well as artistic work. His art photography is characterized by its classic black-and-white format, and features people, places and objects shot great attention and sensitivity. Gilbert's works are held in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, and the Grand Valley State University Art Galleries, as well as in numerous private and institutional collections. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960-2011 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="%E2%80%9Dhttps%3A//gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/783%E2%80%9D">Douglas R. Gilbert Papers (RHC-183)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Subject The topic of the resource Photographs Photography -- United States Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-183 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Type The nature or genre of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-183_M233-0016a Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gilbert, Douglas R. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1972-06/1972-08 Title A name given to the resource Roger Lancelyn Green Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of British biographer and children's writer, Roger Lancelyn Green. Green was also an Oxford academic and a member of the Oxford literary group known as the Inklings, along with J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, whom he studied literature under at Merton College. Scanned from the negative. Subject The topic of the resource Green, Roger Lancelyn Inklings (Group of writers) Merton College University of Oxford Black-and-white photography Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/783">Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1970s Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/82f38161756a16e7e0830660036d7682.jpg 73f70d342476a5ceb0385fed87237b60 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Douglas R. Gilbert Photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gilbert, Douglas R., 1942-2023 Description An account of the resource Photographs scanned from negatives and transparencies from the Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183). Douglas R. Gilbert (b. 1942) is an American photographer from Michigan. He was born in Holland, Michigan and is the son of Russell W. and Carmen (Andree) Gilbert. Gilbert earned a B.A. in social sciences and art at Michigan State University in 1964, an M.S. in photography from the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology in 1972, and a M.S.W. from Salem State College in 1993. He is married to Barbara (McDonald) Gilbert, and has three daughters, Robyn, Rachel, and Anne. Gilbert took a serious interest in photography at the age of fourteen. In 1963 he joined the staff of Look magazine in New York as the second youngest photojournalist in the magazine's history. As a Look photographer from 1964 to 1966, he photographed folk musician Bob Dylan, the Newport Folk Festival, Simon and Garfunkel, the New York City Financial District, the children and facilities at the Manhattan School for Seriously Disturbed Children. From 1967 to 1969, Gilbert did several shoots, including that of folk singer Janis Ian for Life magazine. After moving to Chicago, Illinois in 1969 to attend the Illinois Institute of Technology, Gilbert conducted notable photo shoots of business and political figure Lenore Romney, and pursued more personal and artistic photography, focusing on urban and rural landscapes in Illinois and Michigan. He then joined the faculty of Wheaton College, where he taught from 1972 to 1982. In 1993, Gilbert graduated from Salem State College, Massachusetts, with a Masters in Social Work, and later pursued a second career as a psychotherapist. Douglas Gilbert died in June 2023. Throughout his photography career, he pursued both freelance commercial work as well as artistic work. His art photography is characterized by its classic black-and-white format, and features people, places and objects shot great attention and sensitivity. Gilbert's works are held in the permanent collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, The Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, and the Grand Valley State University Art Galleries, as well as in numerous private and institutional collections. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1960-2011 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="%E2%80%9Dhttps%3A//gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/783%E2%80%9D">Douglas R. Gilbert Papers (RHC-183)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Subject The topic of the resource Photographs Photography -- United States Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections and University Archives. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-183 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Image Type The nature or genre of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-183_M233-0022a Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gilbert, Douglas R. Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1972-06/1972-08 Title A name given to the resource Roger Lancelyn Green Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of British biographer and children's writer, Roger Lancelyn Green. Green was also an Oxford academic and a member of the Oxford literary group known as the Inklings, along with J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, whom he studied literature under at Merton College. Scanned from the negative. Subject The topic of the resource Green, Roger Lancelyn Inklings (Group of writers) Merton College University of Oxford Black-and-white photography Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/783">Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1970s Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/b06136ab699d2b0005085c60576706fd.pdf 41c065e2b2ea21ce5489037663aff765 PDF Text Text Young   L ords   In  Lincoln  Park   Interviewee:  Roger  Sheppard   Interviewers:  Jose  Jimenez   Location:  Grand  Valley  State  University  Special  Collections   Date:  10/4/2016   Runtime:  01:39:03         Biography  and  Description   Oral  history  of  Roger  Sheppard,  interviewed  by  Jose  “Cha-­‐Cha”  Jimenez  on  October  04,  2016  about  the   Young  Lords  in  Lincoln  Park.   Roger  is  a  twin  brother  and  they  were  born  August  8,  1941.  His  mother  came  from  Holland  and  his   father  from  Ireland.  He  was  raised  Baptist  but  baptized  in  the  Christian  Reform  Church.  In  1960,  he   joined  the  Young  Socialist  Alliance  working  to  fight  against  segregation,  by  teaching  and  organizing   White  college  students.  While  young  he  and  his  brother  created  their  own  business  by  buying   newspapers  for  a  nickel  and  then  selling  them  for  six  cents.  They  lived  in  what  was  then  suburban,   Sun  Down  Towns  which  he  said  meant  that  if  you  were  Black  or  Latino,  you  could  not  be  seen  in  the   town  after  dark.   �Roger  has  worked  for  the  IBEW  or  International  Brotherhood  of  Electrical  Engineers  for  over  50   years.  In  1963  he  recalls  marching  with  Martin  Luther  King  in  Chicago  where  he  says  they  chanted,   “to  end  Jim  Crow  Daley  has  got  to  go.”  He  also  met  and  spoke  with  Malcolm  X  and  remembers   Stokeley  Carmichael  on  the  same  stage  with  Bernadette  Devlin  of  Ireland.  He  worked  alongside   SNCC  or  Student  Non–Violent  Coordinating  Committee.  In  1969  he  was  introduced  to  Cha-­‐Cha   Jimenez  by  Puerto  Rico  MPI  leader,  Richard  Levins  just  before  the  police  arrested  Jimenez  and   recalls  how  the  Young  Lords  raised  $2500  on  the  spot  to  get  him  bonded  out.  He  said  that  the  Young   Lords  were  about  love  and  caring  and  deadly  serious  about  “consciousness  raising.”  They  had  the   people  with  them.  Roger  himself  was  harassed  and  arrested  many  times  for  protests.  He  is  well   read  and  proactive  in  international  struggle.             �Transcript JOSÉ JIMÉNEZ: Roger, if you can give me your name, what you did, your date of birth, and where you were born. ROGER SHEPPARD: My twin brother and I were born in August 8, 1941. I was born first. JJ: Alright. That’s good. Let me -- okay, so, if you can give me your name, your date of birth, how many people in your family or siblings, and then -- RS: Right. JJ: Okay. RS: My father was born in February 15th along with his twin brother in -- February 15, 1907. My mother -- JJ: And if you can mention her first name. RS: Her name is Elizabeth Hoedemaker. JJ: And your father? RS: My father is Ford Sheppard. [00:01:00] My mother came from Holland. My father’s people came from Ireland in 1683 because they fought the king, which is known as the Cavaliers. And they were part of the Levellers and the Roundheads. And they were rewarded with a grant. The irony is the Ford brother’s came over on William Penn’s grant the same year that Roger Williams died when he said the king should have no power to grant any land because it was occupied by the Native Americans. My mother was born March 27, 1911. And my older brother was born October 16, 1937. Four years later, my twin 1 �brother Roland and I, Roger Sheppard, was born August 8, 1941. [00:02:00] And we share a common birthday, three Leos, with Cha Cha Jiménez, Roland Sheppard, and Roger Sheppard. That’s a trinity of Leos, all good people and all dedicated to the struggle. JJ: And what do you remember during that time in the -- RS: -- I remember me and my -- JJ: -- in Lincoln Park -- RS: -- twin brother were sparring partners for 18 years. He was always a little heavier than me, so I had to be a little quicker to get into his mind and just self-defense. And I learned to be a fighter, not just as a fight fighter, but as a fighter for justice and truth early on [00:03:00] from the example of my father and mother because they wanted to be good Christians, period. And they were Franklin Roosevelt Democrats. We all later, in 1960, all attended the founding convention of the Young Socialists Alliance, my older brother, Barry, my twin brother, who was not let into the convention because he was dressed well, because there were some beatniks at that time. That’s what they were called, not hippies. It is 1960, April 16th, and we had just finished supporting the Woolworth sit-ins. So, our legacy goes back before the sit-ins, in my case, my activity from February 1, 1960 in the support of the historically white colleges [00:04:00] like Brandeis, Harvard, MIT, Boston College, Boston University, supporting hundreds of students to close down Woolworths. Now, you wouldn’t think it was the radicals, the socialists -the Democratic socialists said it was not a moral question to close them down. They thought we shouldn’t punish the northern Woolworths because they were 2 �not segregationists. We said we had to hit it where it hurts and join all the Black students who were getting beat in the South for just sitting down and asking to be served, that we had to close Woolworths down. And we closed Woolworths down in Roxbury, Massachusetts two weeks after [00:05:00] the sit-ins in Greensboro, North Carolina. When I said “we,” I mean my older brother, me, Peter Camejo, and many others. Peter Camejo later ran with Nader in 2004 for vice president of this country. JJ: Ralph Nader? RS: Yes, Ralph Nader. Peter came from Venezuela, and he used to call himself Peter Camejo. And he was on the yacht racing team for Venezuela in 1960. Comes from a bourgeois background and grew up in a petty bourgeois background in Great Neck, Long Island. As the consonance of the Latino movement developed, he started calling himself Pedro Miguel Camejo. JJ: And what year was this? RS: I would say in the late ’60s. But he was Peter [00:06:00] to us, and he was a magnificent speaker. Later I went to school at Brown. I flunked out of Brown with a 0.25 average. That’s hard to do because it means I got on D and three Es. I was the only engineering student at Brown -- I wanted to be an architect -- who had physiology instead of physics. But I had caught the whiff of the movement. Luckily for me, I moved out to Boston with Peter and my older brother, Barry, right when the movement struck. And I was fortunate to have, as a teacher, Larry Patrick Trainor, who was a printmaker and a socialist from the ’30s. His father organized the police strike in 1919. [00:07:00] He was later asked to be one of 3 �Leon Trotsky’s guards in Mexico, and his wife, Gusty was on the way to being a cook when Trotsky was killed by Stalin’s agent in 1940. Anyway, he was my teacher as well as Farrell Dobbs who told me, when I met him, he was the organizer of the Teamsters in Minneapolis general strike in 1934. He asked me to just call him “Farrell.” I said, “Yes, Mr. Dobbs,” because I was always taught to respect my elders. But Farrell Dobbs was an inspiration as well as Ray Sparrow. Ray Sparrow and James P. Cannon went back to the IWW and the Socialist Party and the founding of the Communist Party after the Russian Revolution. They were the old-timers in my group. I realize I’m an old-timer now because I’m talking about what [00:08:00] would be, to me, 1906 from 1969. I learned a lot from everybody in the mass movement, and the early ’60s were popping because people had enough. Now, I might remind you that Emmett Till was my age when he was lynched in 1955. He was 14 years old. He would be my age now, 72, had he survived. But Emmett Till’s death set off a new consciousness in the Negro -- at that time called the Negro -- movement. And the Montgomery bus boycott soon followed. And they organized so well with E.D. Nixon organizing, Rosa Parks, [00:09:00] and a young preacher named Martin Luther King, Jr. for a year. And they were successful because the Korean War vets kept the transportation moving from 1955, December, to 1956. JJ: And you were doing what at that time? RS: At that time, I was in high school but feeling very inspired about the movement. I didn’t realize you had to go something beside be inspired at that time. I thought you declare yourself to be socialist like you would declare yourself to be a 4 �Unitarian or a Christian. I was raised as a Baptist, but I was baptized in the Dutch Reform Church, to my chagrin, which was the church of apartheid [00:10:00] later. But both of my grandparents took their kids out of -- my father and mother -- out of church when the KKK visited both churches in north Jersey and south Jersey. JJ: Okay, but are your parents and your neighbors and your friends -- are they talking socialism? RS: No. MY father felt like he was a chicken that hatched ducks. But he was very sympathetic to what we were doing in the civil rights movement and in the struggle to defend the Cuban Revolution, which I supported in 1959 as a newsboy because Batista was supported by the United States. And I knew then the difference between the colonization of Puerto Rico [00:11:00] and the socalled independence of Cuba. JJ: So, you were a newsboy, you said? RS: Yeah, so was my twin brother, so was my older brother. JJ: What does that mean? RS: That means we were delivering papers. We built our own business. We sold the nickel paper for six cents, and that’s how we made money in high school. JJ: This was where, in Boston? RS: Livingston, New Jersey, an all-white town. I didn’t know what I later understood, that these white suburbs had unwritten laws and they’re called sundown towns where Latinos or Blacks were often questioned if it was night time and they were walking in the town or driving through the town of what was their business in the 5 �town. There’s a good book called Sundown Towns. It was [00:12:00] written by a man who wrote Lies My Teacher Taught Me. And you should go and look at that book. Malcolm X taught me that the best way to keep a secret is put it in a book. JJ: Okay. Now, you said Malcolm X taught you from reading. But I mean, did you also have experiences -- RS: -- Yes -- JJ: -- or did someone that you know have experiences directly with Malcolm X? RS: Yes. I met Malcolm X first at Brown University when I was a student at Rhode Island School of Design on May 11th, my wife-to-be’s birthday, when he spoke at Brown University and, for the first time I was aware of, he explained there was a difference between the house Negro and the field hand. JJ: When you were there? RS: When I was there. JJ: He spoke then? RS: I was almost arrested there. [00:13:00] JJ: And how did you understand that to be? RS: I understood that to be some -- they weren’t called Blacks at the time -- some Negroes identified more with their master. As Malcolm explained, they so identified with the master, they’d say, “We sick, Master?” And when their house was on fire, they’d say, “Our house in on fire,” when the field hands would pray for a strong wind. So, that was 1961. JJ: But you were not African American at that time. 6 �RS: No, I’m just getting darker. I don’t know. JJ: (laughs) RS: Last time I was arrested, I was called a Hispanic male by the police. JJ: Right. RS: And I can’t speak a word of Spanish. JJ: So, how did you feel then? RS: I identified on the ricochet of the injustice that is they hit the Blacks and the Latinos. And I stood for [00:14:00] justice, and I [had written?] carefully but in action of the students. And they set a wildfire all over America, north and south. Malcolm says the South was down south and up south, south of the Canadian border. I and my wife had to -- 1962, Linda Thompson married me. Went to Baltimore, Maryland at the Maryland Institute of Art where I walked into a fellowship of sculpture. That meant I, as an undergraduate, went to a graduate degree program. I didn’t get a graduate degree, but I had my own studio, and I could participate in the southern movement, which is why I moved from Providence down to Baltimore, which is the up south now of south, [00:15:00] if you understand what I mean. JJ: Okay, so you’re in the southern movement. What is that? RS: It’s interesting. Baltimore, at that time, had white only, colored -- whatever color that was -- and men and women jobs listed, colored apartments, white apartment. And the building trades and the union movement turned their backs on the Blacks and Latinos. But I learned in the movement in real life, and I had the best teachers in the country, not only Malcolm X but Gloria Richardson in 7 �Cambridge, Maryland. My wife and I, with 30 others, were accused of assaulting a cop who said, “Halt,” when we were marching to jail against the unjust arrest of our leaders. JJ: So, you went to [00:16:00] jail? RS: Oh, several times. I was arrested for inciting a riot outside of a penitentiary built before the Civil War. I was outside the penitentiary. I won that case, didn’t I? What is my batting average? I used to say a thousand. But I’ve been arrested many times. I was arrested at least from that penitentiary where we fought all the jails in Baltimore to crack the theater discrimination right next to the Morgan State College, a predominantly Black school at that time, in ’63, I think in February 28th. You can Google it and look it up, very simple. Obama says today we’re having a discussion on classification but everything’s classified. I say we should have that discussion, but everything I say can be verified. You can Google it. [00:17:00] Now, I re-met Malcolm after there was a big pressure, when ’63 was hot. The press didn’t call the bombing of A.D. King, Martin Luther King’s brother - his house was demolished and Martin Luther King’s office was blown apart. And women and children had dogs sicced on them and were practically blown away with water hoses. That was in spring campaign of Birmingham. JJ: Did you see any other? RS: I didn’t see Birmingham, but I saw the Eastern Shore of Maryland, which is like the deep South. In Cambridge, Maryland, there are only 15,000 population in total, and Race Street cut right through the town. [00:18:00] And there was martial law in Cambridge, Maryland. And Gloria Richardson, who later became a 8 �friend of Malcolm’s, was a leader of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. We were all charged with assault, I told you before, 30 of us socalled assaulting a police officer. Then we were given a deal like kids today are given a deal. Plead guilty to this assault, which is a felony, and they would fine us a penny and suspend it. We said no. The martial law was declared in Cambridge, Maryland because the Black population was getting unruly. That is they were demanding rights. [00:19:00] John F. Kennedy’s brother, Robert Kennedy, put together a package that could be a referendum of rights. Gloria Richardson said then and said it today -- she’s 91 years old and lives in New York -- that there can be no voting on inherent rights. You can’t vote on rights. For this, she was opposed by every major civil rights leader because she was told to accept the referendum and accept that deal. Well, let me go back to ’63. There was such heat in the country at that time that Malcolm supporters and Martin Luther King supporters got together in Detroit on June 23rd, didn’t they? And they had a march of 125,000, 99.9 percent Black [00:20:00] and practically a hundred percent working people. That was June 23, 1963, 20 years after the race riots in Detroit of 1943. Google it. Look it up. Martin Luther King gave his first “I Have a Dream” speech here in Detroit that became a cry throughout the country that there should be a march on Washington. By that, they meant Congress. JJ: And you were doing what at that time? RS: I was helping organize that march -- JJ: -- From where, at what time -- 9 �RS: -- from Chicago with the Friends of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Kennedy called up Daley. JJ: How did you get to Chicago? RS: The Young Socialist Alliance was running a summer school. I was heading up a group within -- of 50 young socialists who were predominantly white, [00:21:00] predominantly middle class students, to head an intervention into the civil rights movement. JJ: What does that mean? RS: An intervention means that you participate, learn, and advance the struggle. While I was in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee -- JJ: -- How did you advance the struggle? RS: Very simply. The NAACP who was in Daley’s pocket of his machine called the Freedom March. And the NAACP instructed everybody in Chicago to participate in the march but had no signs against Mayor Daley. But Mayor Daley, being full of himself, blew it. He came in front of the NAACP convention [00:22:00] and calmly announced, “There are no ghettoes in Chicago.” This was a slap in the face to not only Blacks in Chicago and all justice loving people in the world but it was an opening for the Friends of the SNCC to form a contingent in that freedom march, which was led, supposedly, by Mayor Richard Daley. And he marched four hours in the hot sun. And we had a contingent that was applauded all along the march that ended up in a rally at Grant Park. We said, “To end Jim Crow, Daley must go.” We then proceeded to picket, my wife and I went, a couple people from SNCC, one from Mississippi named Lafeyette Surney, [00:23:00] a 10 �couple bus drivers, and a National African American Organization organization, maybe 12 of us. We came with our picket signs, “Daley Must Go.” The NAACP came out and tried to stop us with force. But we were veterans from the struggle in the South, and we just sat down. And the moment we were sitting down and the cops would have been thrown over our heads, 20,000 people stood up and booed Mayor Daley right off the stage. The only thing he could say is, “I think there are some Republicans here.” And then, Dr. Joseph H. Jackson, head of the Baptist Convention, who hated Martin Luther King with a passion and was against a march on Washington -- this is July 4, 1963. Mind you, the [00:24:00] march on Washington was going to be organized yet to be for August 28th, a jobs and justice and freedom march at Washington. The original idea was to assemble at Congress because they were run by the Dixiecrats in the South who ran everything. We were cautioned by the Democrats to go slow. Our slogan was “Freedom Now,” and we were bold. And we were strong. And we had the eyes of the whole world, including Africa, on our side and watching the struggle intently. Joseph H. Jackson, Dr. Joseph H. Jackson got this far out of his chair, and he got booed [00:25:00] too, right off the stage. That’s how hot the consciousness of the Black-led movement was in ’63. But there were many whites also who understood what the unity of the Blacks, as symbolized by Malcolm’s followers and Martin’s followers in Detroit, that unity and demand for freedom now, freedom, justice, and equality at that time was such that it put a wedge in the white community. Mind you, 20 years before there was a riot of white workers against Blacks moving into white so-called housing areas. 11 �[00:26:00] Just 20 years later, there was a massive march in Detroit. There was 20,000 marching in Chicago, and Kennedy said we must do something. So, they created the Big Six, Whitney Young of the Urban League, John Lewis of the SNCC, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, Roy Wilkins of the NAACP, Whitney Young -- I said that already, CORE, Congress of Racial Equality, James Farmer, and -- I’m not sure I got them all. JJ: And where were you? RS: I was driving from Chicago with Lafeyette Surney and Charles Lindy in a car that was donated to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. But people donated their cars that had clay in the wheel. [00:27:00] And we went through that narrow tunnel in Pittsburgh and our car went from side to side. And this was a dangerous thing to give to the movement. But we held on. And thousands and thousands and thousands, one quarter of a million people assembled, not at Congress, but with the intervention of the Kennedy administration, at the Lincoln Memorial. Gloria Richardson was supposed to speak there, and she would have been the only woman representative. And Bayard Rustin and other march organizers agreed that the microphone should be snatched from her face. They did that largely because they couldn’t control what John Lewis was going to say, [00:28:00] John Lewis of SNCC. So, interestingly, I stayed with SNCC people because we were going to have a meeting after the march on Washington at the Statler Hotel. My roommate -- and I’ll say his name -- Lafeyette Surney from Louisville, Mississippi -- good man -- picked up a girl that night, the night of August 28th. I couldn’t get into my room. I went down to the lobby and Malcolm 12 �X and Jeremiah X walked in. And Malcolm spoke to me for 40 minutes. And he said, “George Washington was a revolutionary in the sense that he knew that bloodshed was necessary for separation from England and independence.” He said that the landless against the landlord in the French Revolution required blood. [00:29:00] And he told me that that night in that 40 minute exchange. And he also said the Russian peasant had to fight for land against the landlord, and it required blood. So, Malcolm said around that time, that if you really understood revolution -- some of these people talking about a revolution would shy away, would turn away because of what it requires, a blood sacrifice. And that goes all the way down to the struggle of Blacks and Latinos here in this country. Puerto Rico became citizens of this country in a so-called free associated state. Cuba had the nominal independence, but that was sufficient [00:30:00] to set the basis for a revolution in that island that inspired me of -JJ: -- How did it inspire you? RS: Because they beat Batista after the Granma was shot up. JJ: But I mean, did you know anything about Cuba? RS: I learned from Cuba in the headlines because prior to Castro taking power, it became clear to most of us that Batista was a bloody dictator. Granma was shot up -- JJ: -- But I mean, to the American public -- RS: -- To the American public -- JJ: -- It became clear that he was a dictator -- 13 �RS: -- clear that he was a dictator. And Castro was supported all over. He spoke before 10,000 at Harvard University stadium, 10,000. It was after Castro spoke to Eisenhower and said that the [00:31:00] sugar lands owned by United Fruit must be run by the workers themselves and agrarian reform, land reform had to be carried out for the revolution. That’s when Eisenhower and then Kennedy, through Allen Dulles -- who by the way, had hundreds of affairs. People say one CIA guy had to leave just recently because of an affair. But something is going on. Before Kennedy was inaugurated, three days before Kennedy was inaugurated, Lumumba was killed. We picketed Kennedy because he’s the one that supplied the mercenaries, army, by the tens and tens of thousands. [00:32:00] JJ: Who is “we”? RS: Those like Maya Angelou, the Nation of Islam, the peace movement, those beginning to be conscious of American African struggles. Lumumba went to the eighth grade but spoke for all of Africa. And his best friend, Mobutu, turned on him, not unlike the turning of John Ali, national secretary to the Nation of Islam, turned on Malcolm and set him up. They did all of this, Kennedy especially did this because they wanted the minerals and the wealth of the Congo. And if you go to the Kennedy Library in Boston today, you’ll see a nice little cabinet of minerals [00:33:00] given to them by Mobutu as it represents and offering, like some conquered peoples did to the pharaohs of ancient Egypt. That is what America is seen by more and more people today. Now, how were our eyes 14 �opened? Kennedy went into Laos, went into Cuba. On April 15th, I got arrested -- I didn’t get arrested -- I was told I couldn’t picket legally. JJ: What town was this? RS: April 15, 1961, in Providence, Rhode Island with Brown students and Rhode Island School of Design [00:34:00] students and a Cuban student and a fighter named [George Obujo?], who was a middle weight contender from Cape Verde. Many people were pro-Cuban at that time. But we said that it should be hands off Cuba. That was April 15th. The cops said we couldn’t picket. I went to look for a lawyer, and a lawyer came down the street, ACLU. God works in mysterious ways. He’s right on time for me. I said, “Do we need a permit to picket the federal offices of the post office?” And he said, “The only time you need a parade permit to picket under the first amendment is when you’re taking animals through town like Barnum & Bailey.” What a circus the cops tried to make. So, I said, “If you back us up, we’ll go right there.” [00:35:00] We went there with about 15 students. The cops grabbed our signs. I admit I held mine a little harder. So, they wrenched them out. And that was on TV and on the front page of the Providence Journal. Cops sometimes acted their own foolish ways, make up their own laws, and get themselves hurt in the process. At that time, the mafia was centered around a man named Patriarca in Providence. And young toughs from Federal Hill in Providence said that students, the protesters, should follow the leaders because they’re going to be our leaders. And they would pick their best man and then I should pick our best man and have a fistfight. And that’s in the [00:36:00] Providence General Article. And that can be retrieved any 15 �time. And that was 1961. But I began to know about the Puerto Rican struggle because the movement for independence was gaining strength among the leadership of Juan Mari Brás. JJ: Okay, did you meet Juan Mari Brás? RS: No. I heard the voices or the cry going through Boricua. There was a chant. I don’t know the Spanish of it. But it says, “Juan Mari for sure, Seguro. A Yankee dally duro. Hit the Yankees hard.” I was very inspired by the Puerto Ricans, on the island and [00:37:00] -- since I grew up in New Jersey, mainly I knew them from New York. I didn’t meet Puerto Ricans in Chicago. JJ: Was there a big movement in New York at that time? RS: There was a recognition that there was a community of Puerto Ricans. And that was reflected in a best -- what do you call it? Not best-selling -- oh, I’m a loss of words. There was a Broadway musical presented called the West Side Story where the gang was the Puerto Ricans -- of course they carried knives -- and the Jets. And in 1960, that was a popular, popular movie. [00:38:00] Later on, as things developed in the Black Panthers and the Young Lords, Bernstein raised funds for both of those organizations. JJ: Who was Bernstein? The producer? RS: The composer and the conductor. And he wrote the music for the West Side Story. So, you know, it was beginning to be in the national consciousness when this story came out, really a Romeo and Juliet story. JJ: So, the left -- 16 �RS: -- Not just the left, everybody applauded that movement. Mind you, this was just after WWII and Korea. JJ: You know the Young Lords got their colors from West Side Story? RS: Excellent. JJ: Black and purple. [00:39:00] (laughs) RS: Excellent. You have to understand when we fought WWII, it wasn’t for freedom and democracy, it was for world rule. And Korea wasn’t fought for the world democracy because we had a dictator named Syngman Rhee doing our dirty work in South Korea. Malcolm alluded -- JJ: -- What dirty work? What do you mean? RS: They were killing their own Korean brothers at the behest of the United States who wanted to put pressure on the Chinese Revolution. You know there was a worldwide anti-colonial revolt after WWII. [00:40:00] Ghana, led by Nkrumah, came out of the imperialist British army and demanded freedom for Africa. That was in the late ’50s. And spirit has a way of being contagious. JJ: How are you familiarizing yourself with all these African struggles? RS: Well, we had a -- JJ: -- Why are you familiarizing yourself with that? RS: They were calling the Mau Mau, who were the freedom fighters of Kenya, terrorists. And yet, we were murdering freedom fighters in the Congo. We were murdering freedom fighters in South Africa. United States -- I said “we.” The United States government and those who operate the government [00:41:00] in secrecy were murdering freedom lovers in Angola. 17 �JJ: So, this is coming out in the -- RS: -- Early ’60s -- JJ: -- in the tabloids? How are you -- RS: -- How did we know about it? JJ: Or just in the news? You were getting it from the news. RS: We hear it from the news and also in SNCC. JJ: How did you hear about it in SNCC. RS: Through songs. JJ: What kind of songs? RS: Well, you know the word “uhuru” is a Swahili word, one of the languages spoken in -- excuse me. I have to get water from time to time. JJ: So, they’re using Swahili words in SNCC? RS: Uhuru, adelante, advance. JJ: Right. RS: This is in the early ’60s. The civil rights cauldron impacted everybody here and around the world. We used to go down to what we called freedom rallies in between Washington and Baltimore. Stokely Carmichael was in Howard. JJ: Who’s “we?” Were you part of that? RS: I was part of a group called the Civic Interest Group. That’s a SNCC affiliate from Morgan State College. National -- NAG -- Action Group was let by Stokely Carmichael, Stanley Wise, and Cortland Cox. JJ: So, were you in contact with Stokely -- 18 �RS: We were in contact with them in ’62. We used to go down the Route 40, and they’d say, “We don’t serve colored people here.” Three of us would go in at a time. This is ’62, two years after the sit-ins started. [00:43:00] They’d say, “We don’t serve colored people.” We’d say, “We don’t eat colored people. But we’d like to get served. We don’t eat them ourselves.” The police officers would take their nightsticks and make them in day sticks and bang the seats that we were on and said, “Move.” JJ: They did that to you? RS: They didn’t hit me. They hit the seat. “Move or you’ll be arrested for criminal trespass.” That was the law of the land even after Brown v Plessy [sic] and the Board of Education said segregation was illegal. But proceed at all deliberate speed. The Ku Klux Klan wore two outfits at that time. [00:44:00] The white hoods that we saw in 1918, parading 100,000 strong in Washington and in Indianapolis and throughout America and the uniform of the police. Remember, Mississippi would fly that Confederate flag. Mind you, the Confederacy was in rebellion against the United States. And there’s a large monument to the veterans that fought the great rebellion in Jamaica Plain, where you, Cha Cha, spent some time. That was a Latino area in the ’60s before it got gentrified. You could buy a house for $11,000, a mansion, [00:45:00] and the whites grabbed them up. You could own property in those times. Now today, they’re struggling for everything to have a roof over their heads, but they own no property. They have no assets. I tell my construction workers, the only asset you have is the ass that you’re sitting on. We don’t have assets but we have ass sits, and we 19 �can’t sit around much longer. But let’s go back to the officer who said we’re going to have criminal trespass. We’d say, “You have to read the trespass act first.” So, the waiter would sit there saying, “Whence forth the party of the (inaudible) known henceforth as the landlord and the party of the second forth, blah, blah, blah, blah,” [00:46:00] under great tension. Then we would decide. Are we going to get arrested, or are we going to step out and another team of three come in? We would do that all day, every Saturday, and not be served at all. So, we’d bring our lunch with us. We knew how to survive, but we did it in style. And at night, we could hear Ray Charles and the Raelettes, didn’t we? And they’d have [armory?] with Ray Charles and the Raelettes, and you could bring your own food and your own drink. And we’d have a party, and we’d raise funds for the movement. We didn’t organize the party. Ray Charles and the Raelettes organized the party or his producer. This is 1962. We had great parties like the time -JJ: -- So, Ray Charles was supporting [00:47:00] the movement at -- RS: -- Oh, many, many -- Charles Mingus was supporting the movement. They were afraid to let him out. He says, “I’ll sit in.” Let’s be careful, be careful because we had all kinds of people in the movement. Some people would turn on the power and off the power of the buses, just by being church leaders, and other people from the church would act like Christians or Jews or Islam. People don’t understand. That stamp that honors Malcolm X honors the only Muslim so honored in the postal service. They make a disconnect. There’s a billion Catholics in this world and there’s over a billion Muslims. [00:48:00] We learn 20 �every rotten filthy murderous escapade this government was involved in when a half a million so-called communist peasants were killed in Indonesia, Kennedy’s successor -- Joseph -- what’s the cracker from Texas’s name? Lyndon Johnson said that’s the way we should handle Vietnam, a half a million dead in ’65. We had a half a million troops -- not we. I say “we” interchangeably. The United States positioned men, [00:48:00] drafted them, and put them in Vietnam. Sixtyeight thousand didn’t come home, one of them my cousins, Jack Sheppard, didn’t come home, killed around the time I met Cha Cha, just that time. I’ll get to that. Anyway, if they shoot the peasant now in Indonesia, they’ll call them Muslims. It’s called a bait and switch. But I’ll move forward. In ’68 -- was a hot year. JJ: So, where were you in ’68? I mean, where was your family? Where were you at? RS: In ’68 -- my eldest son was born in ’64. JJ: What’s his first name? RS: His name is Daniel Ford Sheppard. Daniel means the “footman of all [00:50:00] prophesy.” I named him after a man that I met in school who was the janitor from Ireland who told me how they would pop the Brits in the lorries coming to do dirty work in the struggle for freedom in Ireland in the early ’20s. Daniel Riley was a big man. JJ: So, you were very nationalistic in terms of Ireland, your country? RS: I learned about the struggle of Ireland through the socialist movement. James Connolly, who went to his death in the Easter Rebellion in 1916, was a socialist. 21 �That was a dirty word in the ’50s. It’s a proud word now. Capitalism is becoming a dirty word. Things are getting reversed. [00:51:00] However, Stokely and Bernadette Devlin went on tours in the ’60s. Bernadette Devlin was the young woman represented Northern Ireland in the British Parliament. She wore mini dresses. She was 19. Later, she was shot up as the wife of McAliskey, Bernadette Devlin McAliskey. But she spoke in Boston with Stokely Carmichael. Stokely was an internationalist. Bernadette was an internationalist. The Puerto Ricans movement taught me that they were internationalists. They had to think globally and act locally, and that’s what the Young Lords were doing all the time. All the time. I’ll fast forward to May 7th because I’ve been involved in everything [00:52:00] from 1960 until now. In 1970 -- prior to 1970, me arriving to Chicago in January, there was a shooting that was set up by the FBI and the police department under Daley, of Fred Hampton and Mark Clark on December -- I think it was the third. JJ: Fourth. RS: Fourth, somewhere around there, December 4, 1969. I met Cha Cha with the leader of the NPI who was teaching at the University of Chicago after he got kicked out of the University of Puerto Rico, a man who had his distinguished scholarly career and was independentista and a socialist at that time. JJ: Who was that? RS: Dr. Richard Levins who’s now in his eighties. He went to Cuba [00:53:00] to meet with Castro. Through my wonderful intercession, intervention of Adolfo Rodriguez in Boston from the NPI, I learned they were pro-Cuba, pro-liberty, 22 �Libertad, and pro self-determination for Cuba, for Puerto Rico, for the whole world, and especially Puerto Ricans here. Now, a thing developed in the anti-war movement. There was a successful campaign against the draft where they said, “No blood tax without representation in Puerto Rico.” They couldn’t touch anybody in Puerto Rico for that draft. But Puerto Ricans over here could be touched. They were touched [00:54:00] severely. Meanwhile, what were the unions doing? Well, there were contradictory forces going on in the unions, but the unions weren’t acting in defense of all workers, especially the most oppressed. You know there was only three unions that supported the march on Washington in ’63? That’s the UAW, 1199, and -- I forget the third. But UAW was strong because Detroit was so strong because -- Motor City. There’s a song by -- this is an aside -- there’s a song by Gregory Porter who just won a Grammy called “Sixties what? sixties Who? The Motor City’s burning. You don’t need sunlight. You don’t need moonlight. [00:55:00] You don’t need streetlight. There’s a bright light. The Motor City’s burning.” Hear it. Google it. YouTube Gregory Porter and it will come up. That’s the beauty of things today. What you say can be heard around the world and reheard and rebroadcast and taken in. And he’s a young man in his forties like my young man now is almost 50. But he’s special needs. But he was picketing in the Vietnam War movement. And the civil rights movement gave birth to the anti-war movement and to the Chicano Power movement and to the Puerto Rican Power movement. Power to the people wasn’t just a slogan, it was a program. [00:56:00] So, I came to Chicago in January, right after the slaughter -- 23 �JJ: -- In 1970 -- RS: -- of 1970, right after the slaughter of Mark Clark and Fred Hampton that was set up by one of their friends for $300 where they drew exactly where Fred Hampton was sleeping. JJ: You mean O’Neal? RS: Yes. Cha Cha knows it intimately because he’s part of the struggle, shoulder to shoulder with the Black Panthers. That’s why he had more trouble as a gang member when he was political than when he was a gang member. And he was in a legitimate gang, that is, bona fide gang that became conscious [00:57:00] of the whole ’60s movement. And they became, not just students of the movement -- they became teachers and learners of the movement. JJ: Why do you say that? RS: Because -- JJ: -- Or how can you say that? Were you around there? RS: I noticed that the people’s church became a church of the people. That’s extraordinary. JJ: What do you mean? How did you notice this? RS: Well, not only did it (inaudible) people’s church -- JJ: -- Were you living in Lincoln Park? RS: I wasn’t living in Lincoln Park. I was living in Austin, the West Side. There’s two big Black ghettoes in Chicago, South Side, which is bigger than Boston, and the West Side. We’d say that was the best side. But Lincoln Park was an area of [00:58:00] Puerto Ricans and Chicanos. I didn’t know there were so many 24 �Chicanos in Chicago. They came up for the steel mills and the industries, and they had a foothold in this powerful brawny city. And I could see the posts of that city. I worked in the construction trade. And I quit my job after I worked with Cha Cha. JJ: So, the Chicanos were living in (inaudible) -- RS: -- Chicago -- JJ: -- in the South Side then coming to -- RS: -- All over Chicago, everywhere. They limited the Puerto Ricans in one area. That was were they built Circle Campus. Yet there were no Puerto Ricans living at their campus. But this is where the working class so far, students went, which were white. They had five times as many [00:59:00] Latinos from outside America at that campus than they had people who grew up here in their own neighborhood. When I met Cha Cha, it was sometime near the end of April. We had previously agreed that we would meet, Mr. Levins, myself, and Cha Cha, to set up some classes about the history of Puerto Rico. I went down to the People’s Church and I noticed angry young men. I don’t mean angry young men like they talk about beatniks. I’m talking about people which had guns on them. They were outraged that women and children were hit by the police and then charged with assaulting the police officer. I came there [01:00:00] and I was shocked. I called around my white radical friends -- I hate to use that term. I call them “Radicos.” Something like liberals by radicals but radicals, more better sounding. I wanted a camera as a way to protect Cha Cha, and I want Dr. Richard Levins there. He came right away because he knew it was a dangerous 25 �situation. The police wanted to arrest Cha Cha where he was organizing, not at his house. They knew his movements everywhere. They didn’t want to shoot him in bed. They wanted this to be a shock within the community. I tell the Young Lords I had just met, “Get rid of the guns. Put them away. This is a setup. What’s wrong with this picture? Why are they having a nine year old arrested for assaulting a police officer? [01:01:00] What could the nine year old do to the police officer? Wasn’t he armed? Didn’t he outweigh him by 30 times? Wasn’t he vicious enough in his heart to do damage, the cop I mean?” Yes to all of those. So, I went to beseech Cha Cha because they asked me, “You are you?” I said, “Roger Sheppard.” I said, “I’ve come here to meet Cha Cha.” I went to meet Cha Cha, and I said, “You’re in a terrible situation.” They’d done this thing as a set-up, and it’s the oldest game in town. And they just played it on Mark Clark and Fred Hampton. Right? And they killed Manuel Ramos in 1969. [01:02:00] And Cha Cha said, “Get rid of the guns.” He even said, “Get rid of the grass.” We’ll be truthful now. And things calmed down. Bongos were played. Everything was peaceful and we were awaiting the cops coming. Dr. Richard Levins was there. I was there. My friend Antonio De Leon didn’t like the confrontation, so he was actually standing across the corner. And all of the actors who came together at a different act this time -- this is act two. And the Young Lords were in charge, not the Chicago police, whose motto “We Serve and Protect” is an oxymoron. [01:03:00] They don’t serve or protect. JJ: Was this in front of the church or at the -- 26 �RS: -- Right in front of the church. They came for Cha Cha in the church. I met Cha Cha in his office, José. But the Lords were lined up on the sidewalk, and I thought they were going to be mowed down. I had a hint about Chicago police because when I came in, they went through my luggage in Austin and they came into my house and said, “Where is all the communist literature coming from?” And I said, “Oh, that must be a term paper of my wife. But thank you for giving it to me because I appreciate you going through all my luggage. Is there anything I can do for you?” And they went away. Then they came around to my [01:04:00] moving truck from Boston and grabbed a plastic toy gun from my son’s toy box. It was in the glove compartment. They said, “What’s this?” I said, “That’s a toy. Can you hand it to me?” So, there’s two incidences. Then I went down to help the Social Workers Party move into the new headquarters. JJ: Where is that? RS: Where was it? JJ: The headquarters, yeah, the Socialist Party. RS: I forget where they moved to. It was downtown. JJ: Oh, it was downtown, okay. RS: But there was a group called Allegiance for Justice. It’s a fascist group that was threatening them. And after I moved everything for my own self, I wanted to use the truck for them to move stuff in. Later I found out the guy who was providing security for us was an agent. JJ: Who [01:05:00] was that? RS: Edward Heisler -- 27 �JJ: -- oh, okay -- RS: -- who I thought was a friend. He was a womanizer, but everybody was a womanizer. The women were womanizers. Funny times. And this guy actively organized in the union movement. And I pushed for him to be on the national committee because he succeeded in getting the right to vote on union contracts throughout the Canadian mail system for the UTU. I said, “He should be represented. We have all these [school boards as new stars?].” And he turns out to be an agent. He asked for his file because he was a good union worker. We wanted to show that the government is infiltrating all aspects like they do today. JJ: So, you were able to get his file at -- RS: -- We got his file when we did a suit against him, which we won, by Leonard Boudin in the ’70s [01:06:00] after the church committee, after the Pentagon papers, after all of that stuff, after they broke into Ellsberg’s psychiatrist’s office. And it was headed by a group called CREEP -- I’m not making this up -Committee to Reelect the President [sic], headed up by the attorney general engaged in skullduggery. They call him “Tricky Dick,” and I won’t go into any synonyms or any jokes, cheap jokes, cheap tricks. But he, like everybody else, did a dirty deal. What they did with the Kennedy brothers is put a whitewash on them because Kennedys were no friend to the civil rights movement. He called out the [01:07:00] Army and installed it in the buildings August 28th. Malcolm X used to call him John “the Fox” Kennedy. When Kennedy was assassinated, I’m 28 �not sure by whom, but the entanglement of the CIA and slippery people in Chicago again -JJ: -- Chicago -- RS: -- Chicago, the mobsters, where he shared Marilyn Monroe with this mobster. I forget his name. Some creep, like the Committee to Reelect the President’s name. Built up a lot of [indebtedness?]. But I remember Kennedy saying, “I wept the Bay of Pigs failed.” Castro defeated them in three days. I was worried because they said lines in the [01:08:00] -- lies in the press. “Change of error defense.” Go back and look April ’61. It was right around the time of Easter. The Unitarian church assistant minster said, “This is like the persecution of Christ.” He got fired by the Unitarians. Ain’t that something, as my oldest boy would say. Ain’t that something? Get fired for speaking the truth from a church on Easter. Hell of a way to run (inaudible). JJ: So, your oldest boy -- so -- RS: -- He’s doing good. JJ: So, how many children do you have? RS: I have three. I spaced them apart. One’s going to be 50 in September, Daniel Ford. JJ: Okay. What’s the other one? RS: My other one’s going to be 34, [01:09:00] Rebecca Sheppard esquire. She’s a lawyer, and she just gave me a beautiful gift of a baby girl who was two months old May 1st, the day of International Immigrants Day and the day of International Working Class Solidarity. I’ll get back to 1970. Oh, my youngest one just got into 29 �the electricians union. He worked retail for 14 years, since he was 14. Could get nowhere. He’d get fined because he couldn’t afford Romney’s insurance, something like Obamacare because he couldn’t make over $9.30 an hour. JJ: Now, you’re working with a union now? RS: I worked 49 years in the Local 103 IBEW, International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers. But to me, IBEW means “I’ve been everywhere.” [01:10:00] I worked in the railroads. I worked with telephone workers. I worked with electricians. And I worked in the Raytheon plant, all the time have little scuffles. They believe in defeating your enemies and rewarding your friends because they think that’s political. Prove it. But they believe anybody who opposes them is an enemy. So, I had my tires slashed on a couple of occasions. My tire went out on a turnpike in a snowstorm. “Vroom, vroom, vroom, vroom, new tire.” I said, “You owe me a tire to the tire man.” He said, “This has been hit with a sharp instrument like a pocket knife.” And they called me up just beforehand. So, my suspicions led to them. And I had to think it through like I did with the Young Lords. You can’t just [01:11:00] go off the top of your head or with response from the hip. You have to say, “What is going on? Why are they so vicious toward me?” So, I said, “I want a meeting.” This was after I was in the union from ’65 to ’93. I was working for unemployment relief. They changed the law 12 months before unemployment as a base period to go back 18 months, forward 12, discount six. Cost me $5,000. So, I sent [Althea?] to the statehouse, the Grinch stealing Christmas just out of the (inaudible). He patted Cindy Lou and sent her to bed with a cup and he put the tree and shoved the tree up. And I put it in a hard hat because I’m an artist. 30 �Anyway, I drew a little hard hat. He said, “You think this is hard. Try losing your job and your benefits.” [01:12:00] Anyway, I met with them, and I said, “I’m not after your job. I’m not after your job.” That’s what they were concerned about. JJ: If you can describe what you saw in terms of the Young Lords when you (overlapping dialogue; inaudible) you’re talking about people that just got involved. RS: Right. I’m sorry. JJ: No, no, that’s fine. RS: Let’s go back to 1970 -- JJ: -- I’m just trying to -- RS: -- in April -- JJ: -- how did you see the Young Lords at that time? I mean, what was going on in that neighborhood. RS: Not only going on in the neighborhood, but going on in the world. That was after ’68. Detroit got hot. Newark got hot. New York got hot. That’s not my words. That’s Farrakhan’s words. That’s what happened in real effect. And Johnson got on the TV with smoke coming out of the White House, and he said, “We must be peaceful.” [01:13:00] This was when he was slaughtering people by the thousands in Vietnam. Sixty-eight thousand didn’t come home for months. But well over a million, a million and a half were dead in Vietnam with napalm, with agent orange, shooting women and children, old people, young people, anybody in a black pajama suit they called Viet Cong. They would have a body count, and they lost the Army right around the time Cha Cha was emerging. There’s a thing 31 �called fragging where gung ho West Pointers would come home and say, “Let’s push the Vietnamese.” And Cha Cha was involved with the Panthers, was involved with the peace movement, [01:14:00] was involved with all movements of social change and especially wanted to teach by action self-determination exists not only for the Black community, but for the Puerto Rican community especially, a people that speaks two or three languages, where I’m an American that can only speak one. I met Omar López who was a minister of education, I believe. Who was a very -JJ: -- information, minister of information -- RS: -- learned man. Minister of information. I met Cha Cha. And that night we came to meet Cha Cha, fortunately, for us, before the police came -- we wanted a camera to protect him. [01:15:00] All of the sudden the guy shows up with a -- I call it a Steve Roper. That’s for old-timers. They had this [graphics?] with a four by five inserted film and a flash, professional photographer taking a picture of Cha Cha getting arrested. So, me and one of the Lords -- I thought it was Omar López -- said, “We’d like to have that film please,” and he gave us the film because he was surrounded by not only the Young Lords but by the community. And that film reveals Cha Cha getting arrested. Later on, just a matter of a week, ten students got shot up, and two weeks later, the Jackson State students got shot up. But this particular time, Cha Cha and I were discussing -- he found out I was an artist -- to design a poster. He says, “I have an idea. A picture of me like this (crosses arms) and say [01:16:00] they can beat us, they can jail us, and they can kill us. But the motherfuckers can’t stop us.” He thought that was a 32 �good thing. I said, “You’ve been beat. You’ve been jailed. And you’ve been killed. But we’d like to use your arrest as a basis of a poster, and we have the ability -- because the students took over the schools -- we have the ability to make a gigantic poster.” And Cha Cha looked at me and say, “I got it. ‘Basta Ya.’ Enough. No more police abuse in our community.” I said, “Beautiful.” I was 28. He was 21. We were exactly seven years apart. But he’s a strong young man. He spent 21 years growing up in this hell of America [01:17:00] that can also be a paradise where, in the twinkling of an eye for making a paradise out of all of the suffering, oppressed people can be the basis of a new society because when you’re oppressed, as a Palestinian man told me once when he was arrested for what he might do by the Israeli defense forces -- he told me when you are oppressed, you have nowhere to go by up. JJ: And I know that there was -- Ralph Rivera was also there. But there were -- what did -- and you said Omar López. What about -- RS: -- Oh, you had such a crew. JJ: What kind of groups were there? RS: Your groups -- when I came there, our main feeling was to get him out of prison as quickly as possible. But they said $2,500 cash bail. This was at a time [01:18:00] when I could by a $15,000 house, $250 down and $160 a month and rent it out for $45 for in law apartment and pay $115. People had property. That $2,500 was more than 20 times that. That’s what you’ve got to understand. I’m talking about 44 years ago. We raised that bail in one night. And I usually like to work hard with anybody. 33 �JJ: How did you do that? RS: We went out to everybody we could think of. And when they saw that beret, that purple beret, the doors would open. We went over to Studs Terkel’s house. I forget whether it was Omar or somebody else. At that time, we used to -- if somebody had smokes, we all had smokes. If somebody had a dollar, we all had a dollar. If somebody could get food, we all had food. [01:19:00] That’s the way they worked it. Socialists, not so much. Socialists -- this is mine, like a two years old. But the Young Lords knew how to share because that’s how they got through life. And that’s why I said they were teaching. But we went to Studs Terkel’s house -- I remember -- and he wrote out a check for $50. Mine you, that’s $500 -- no, that’s a $1,000 today, at least, at least. We said, “No, no, no. We need cash.” He went back in and gave us $50. I stayed up all night with the Lords. Lords told me -- they said, “You know, you’re the first socialist I’ve seen working with us.” I said, “Well, that’s going to change.” [01:20:00] To my regret, it didn’t, but I’ll go into that later. The Lords set an example by how they functioned. The Panthers, at that time, were reeling from attacks on the government, reeling from inside fights by COINTELPRO -- that’s the FBI disruption campaign -- and trying to work with people who had no money, which means they can be desperate. That’s difficult times. But the Young Lords went through the exact same thing. But the heart and their culture was a giving culture, and they set a moral example to be upright and walk upright [01:21:00] like Malcolm X was teaching and Elijah Muhammad and many others, Jesus and Muhammad, all of the prophets. They were all out of the cities. They all disliked 34 �the corruption that was going on in their church. It wasn’t church, it was synagogues. And they would continually renew the church. But to me, the Young Lords embodied that religious spirit of sharing and giving. That’s what struck me, the comradeship. JJ: A religious spirit, you’re saying? RS: I’m saying the holy spirit of giving. See, people somehow -- whatever they say, we see the consciousness decides what the hands are going to do. Steve Biko in the Black Conscious Movement in South Africa [01:22:00] said the biggest weapon of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. What Cha Cha and the Young Lords were doing was consciousness raising, like the women’s movement said they were doing. But we think of the women’s movement often as white women. But there are Latino women and Black women, and they each have a different take, not as many differences as some other period, not here. But what they did in spirit -- spirit simply means “I breathe,” spiro. That’s the Latin word for “I breathe.” Respiration means you breathe again. Expire means you breath out for the last time. Conspire means you breathe with. [01:23:00] And I know because I took Latin. It’s part of the human soul and condition. The thing about religion is it gets in the way sometimes of religiosity, real righteousness, often gets in the way. In that parable that Jesus said about the Samaritan, he was talking about the Levites who were the rabbi class of the Jews. They didn’t help a man. But the Young Lords would go out of their way because that was their business. It wasn’t a business. One thing that irks me about -- JJ: -- Can you give me some examples? 35 �RS: Oh, yes. They were going to set up a breakfast for children program. But the best example I saw was that 24 hours we raised the $2,500. We weren’t a large group. We raised that $2,5000 in cash. [01:24:00] And I must admit, we were proud of presenting that cash. And I had my doubts about the (inaudible) that Cha Cha was engaged in because he said -- (inaudible) to badmouth on him. He was a white guy. And I thought he wasn’t treating it as a serious matter. And Cha Cha was facing serious charges because of who and what he was. He was an organizer, and he taught other people to organize and work together as a group. It’s not as easy as it sounds, especially when you have the whole power of the state and some churches and others powered on top of you and spurious charges on you. Anyway, the Young Lords came to the students who were rallying in defense of the Kent State and Jackson State and said [01:25:00] simply, “Power to the students.” And they had an emotional outburst from everybody. And I think a little relief because they had other people pose as revolutionaries, would castigate students who were doing the right thing. “You’re not here (inaudible) you. The revolution was begun. Time to pick up the gun.” Little limerick that you might read in a Chinese fortune cookie. But we weren’t playing revolution, and the Young Lords were deadly serious. That’s why the idea has never died. JJ: So, did you see any women at all -- RS: -- Oh yes -- JJ: -- involved? 36 �RS: They were powerful. Unfortunately and fortunately -- I’ll tell you a funny story. [01:26:00] Since I was in Chicago for the second time -- ’63 first time, ’70 second time -- police introduced themselves by stopping my truck. “You’re riding on a boulevard. You can be charged with that.” I said, “What a boulevard?” “This is a boulevard.” That was three o’clock in the morning. I got three times hit by the police. There was a group called the Weathermen. They wanted to have a street fight like Bill Ayers. Street fight the cops but his daddy owned all the utilities in Chicago. What’s wrong with that picture? I’ll tell you what, in 1970 in May 4th, with the help of the Young Lords and the movement giving them some support, the Young Lords were honored throughout the movement. This was a movement of one million [01:27:00] students. I spoke two minutes. I quit my job immediately when this happened. I didn’t (inaudible) Young Lords. I’d work, stay up all night, and go to work. I didn’t care. Like tonight. No big deal. There was the Circle Campus, Illinois University -- what do you call it -- University of Illinois Circle Campus. I told my comrades that we’re going to have a meeting. How are we going to take over the school? Well, we’ll have a meeting of 8,000 students in the meeting. You’re going to say, “What should we do?” I say we need some facilities to organize this massive movement and shut this country down. That’s what I told them. The students answered me in one voice. They said, “We have no power.” I said, “You are the power.” And the [01:28:00] administrators came with the key, that simple. And we had WATS lines. That was a big gift because WATS lines meant we could call anywhere free in the country. Now everybody has a WATS line in their pocket. I don’t know where mine is. But any cell phone 37 �can reach the whole world, can reach the whole world. They study mimeographing. I remember the Lords were happy to get some paper. They were happy for anything. They didn’t look a gift horse in the mouth. Some jaded revolutionaries -- I hate to say this. This is nothing against the Young Lords but against radicals that I’ve grown up with. They might have meant well when they were young, but they began to be involved in money and their this and that. They’re what they French say, “They shit the bed,” lâcher une. [01:29:00] They’re not here. Where are they? Well, they’re having a hard time too. Everybody here's having a hard time. But the Lords had gratitude. And gratitude goes a long way in this world. If you think you’ve got nothing, think about what you have. They had real comradeship. I went to a forum with Clifton DeBerry who organized Montgomery support, station wagons so they could sustain their boycott. He was a Black man from Chicago. And he gave a May Day speech that was the best May Day speech I ever heard. That was because he noticed five Young Lords in the audience. I was told by some of my comrades that I was patronizing the Young Lords by offering them a Coke without them paying. [01:30:00] (Laughs) I think I lost my hair because I went to too many meetings with folks, too many. But I liked the Young Lords because they had action, on the spot action, and they were facing enormous odds, and they overcame it. And I’ll tell you another thing. The Young Lords created -- when I’m talking about spirit and spirit’s contagious -- the movement jumped to New York but had a slightly different flavor, came from Columbia University and other places like that, not from the street. It was good they had students get involved, but they sometimes 38 �forgot where they came from [01:31:00] and that’s not a good thing. And I’ll close just with this. The Young Lords have shown me one thing very much. I was taught by many, many people, old-timers and youngster and everything else, and I learned it when I was a kid. And it’s a little thing from the Bible. I don’t even know what chapter it is. It’s this. It’s not money that’s the root of all evil. It’s the love of money that’s the root of all evil. The love of money gets you in front of any god that they worship, any friend that they have, and any lover that they have. The love of money is the root of all evil. And the Young Lords practiced love. As Che Guevara said, at the base of everything a revolutionary stands for is love. [01:32:00] And the Young Lords not only developed the community around their community, remember they thought locally, they acted locally, and they also acted globally and acted globally. JJ: Can you give an example of that? RS: I saw them when they participated in a forum -- just for one little example -because things were moving very quick. All the students were taking over all the schools. (inaudible) was even doing something like they wanted to have their parking lot open. And they were sitting there with a car so that people could come in. That was a nice gesture. Then all of the sudden they said to just smash the thing and open it up. But we had to be very careful. Now mind you, ’68 was a police riot in Chicago against demonstrators that wanted peace, a police riot [01:33:00] against peace all throughout the world shown when Mayor Daley said that (chin flick gesture) to a gentleman who was calling them gestapo. So, they had a deal with this police. What we did is we got the theology students 39 �to surround the ROTC building. No Weathermen so-called revolutionaries were going to touch the ROTC building. And we did that all the way around because we had hundreds of volunteers. And then, we organized 100,000. And (air quotes) “we” this time meant those students who were fighting against the tuition hikes on May 4th. We were going to have an organizing meeting of 20, and they came up with 2,000. And we called that the strike [01:34:00] council. And everything went through this strike council. And I remember a funny incident. This is -- I don’t want to close on this. I’ll close on another thing. There was a woman that we worked with who was a member of the Communist Party. We knew that. And she wanted to have a speaker. But she thought it should be arranged from the inside without going through the council. So, I said -- she wanted a Young Patriots of some kind to come speak, and I didn’t know about them. I said, “Let’s bring it up before the strike council.” She said, “You’re against me because I’m a communist.” I said, “Are you a communist?” She said, “Yes.” I said, “Goddammit, then act like one.” Then we just took that and ran. But the strike council organized that hundred thousand. It became 2,500 [01:35:00] and then 3,000 and they made all the decisions democratically and the Young Lords were represented there. JJ: So, this was a group of a lot of different organizations? RS: Many, many. And one person, one vote. That was new and democratic and moved fast and efficiently. The Young Lords came up before a meeting. Rallies were held everywhere to educate and bring everybody up to snuff. And people were paying attention because a lot of lives were being lost in Vietnam and 40 �elsewhere, right on the streets of Chicago. They were paying attention. Listen, listen, listen. Too much blood has been spilt. That’s where the red flag gets its name from. Don’t you know? A bloodstain banner. An old spiritual, (singing) “We’re going to hold up the bloodstain banner. We’re going to hold it up until we die. We are soldiers in the [01:36:00] Army. We’re going to fight although we have to die. We’re going to hold -- we’re going to hold up the bloodstain banner. We’re going to hold it up until we die. My mother, she was a soldier. She had her hand on the freedom plow. But one day, she got old. She couldn’t fight anymore. But she stood there and fought anyhow.” Well, the Young Lords participated with a man that I knew as a spokesman for the IRA officials in Ireland. There was always a guy with a trench coat -- I thought that was out of the movies -- standing with him. His name was Malachi McCourt. He refused to speak in racist Southie Boston because they were racist on the same platform as Louise Day Hicks and Whitey Bulger. [01:37:00] But the Young Lords are there to give an international view, and a national view. The IRA was there to give an international view and a national view. And many, many different speakers were there. And everybody paid attention those days because that strike struck a chord in America. We’re only talking about two weeks that I was involved with the Lords but I (inaudible) had a good time. Didn’t I? God has seen that I am in the right place at the right time. Huh? My twin brother was there when Malcolm got shot. I did a forum with [01:38:00] John Ali, the guy who set up Malcolm, national secretary to the Nation of Islam. And he spoke, and I didn’t have the -his heart wasn’t in it. And I find out 35 years later in The Judas Factor by Karl 41 �Evanzz who went through 200,000 files of FBI files that John Ali was acting as an agent and set him up. Betrayal. You hear it all the time. It happened in the Panthers resulting in the death and destruction of the Black Panther Party led by the FBI, the CIA, and those liberal Democrats. That’ll close. JJ: Okay. Want to close with that? RS: Yeah. What would you like to close with? JJ: No, no, that’s fine. That’s a good closing. That was great. Let me just make sure that we [01:39:00] don’t have to redo that. RS: Okay. JJ: (laughs) RS: You’re funny. END OF AUDIO FILE 42 � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/781ddc4e7fde4fd10fb7d97d16ea53a2.mp4 3290a036948cbaafe82e4dddb619fd7f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Young Lords in Lincoln Park Collection Subject The topic of the resource Young Lords (Organization) Puerto Ricans--United States Civil Rights--United States--History Lincoln Park (Chicago, Ill.) Personal narratives Social justice Community activists--Illinois--Chicago Description An account of the resource Collection of oral history interviews and digitized materials documenting the history of the Young Lords Organization in Lincoln Park, Chicago. Interviews were conducted by Young Lords' founder, José “Cha-Cha” Jiménez, and documents were digitized from Mr. Jiménez' archives. The Young Lords in Lincoln Park collection grows out of the ongoing struggle for fair housing, self-determination, and human rights that was launched by Mr. José “Cha-Cha” Jiménez, founder of the Young Lords Movement. This project is dedicated to documenting the history of the displacement of Puerto Ricans, Mejicanos, other Latinos, and the poor from Lincoln Park, as well as the history of the Young Lords nationwide. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jiménez, José, 1948- Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/491">Young Lords in Lincoln Park collection (RHC-65)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. 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Título Spanish language Title entry Roger Sheppard vídeo entrevista y biografía Descripción Spanish language Description entry Historia oral de Roger Sheppard, entrevistado por José 'Cha-Cha' Jimenez el 23/10/2016 acerca de los Young Lords en Lincoln Park. Sujetos Spanish language Subject terms Young Lords (Organización) Puertorriqueños--Estados Unidos Derechos civiles--Estados Unidos--Historia Lincoln Park (Chicago, Ill.) Narrativas personales Justicia social Activistas comunitarios--Illinois--Chicago Source <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/491">Young Lords in Lincoln Park (RHC-65)</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/87cda267b70c0e341f6ac0dd27bf3b67.mp4 406e6fe21cccabf3e19ff39c7047a72b https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/6c13e216980d13f03216a69e9b12ff76.pdf dece1c219d1d28942b754d1dad93b951 PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans History Project Rex Rogers (57:33) (00:25) Background Information • Rex was born in Lansing, Michigan in the early twenties • His father was a tool and dye maker • They moved to Battle Creek, Michigan where Rex went to school • During high school Rex paid much attention to the war • He dropped out of school and began working at the Eaton Manufacturing Company • Rex assumed that he would soon be drafted once Pearl Harbor was attacked (3:25) The Marines • Rex had been offered an opportunity to defer service and continue working, but he turned it down and was drafted in into the Marines • He went through physical testing in Kalamazoo and continued with more tests in Detroit • He was the shipped out to San Diego on a train in February 1943 • They then began boot camp and went through much physical training for 10 weeks • Rex then was sent to an air base to begin training to be a radio man • He also went through rifle training and continued with the radio work for two months (13:20) Texas A & S • Rex was sent to a Texas college for specialized training for 8 months and lived in the dormitories • They were learning code and he eventually got up to 40 words a minute • Sometimes they would go and drink on the weekends, but the surrounding towns were so small and they would have to hitch hike to get there • Rex was later sent to Cherry Point in North Carolina to form the Air Warning Squadron, which helped to detect approaching enemy and instructed fighters where enemy was located for attacks (20:25) Working in the Pacific • Rex left from Clinton Bay and stopped in Hawaii • They were working in a rebuilt baby aircraft carrier • He spent about 5 months in Hawaii, working with 270 long range radios • They had a little time off once in a while to go mountain climbing and visit Honolulu (25:05) Marshall Islands • Rex had been waiting in a staging area for a long time �• • • • • • Everyone was waiting for something to happen and no one knew where they were going or what would happen next They were finally ordered to Guam on July 21, 1944 The area was badly hit, with fires everywhere There was lots of action and bombs were going off everywhere Rex was working on top of a radar van and there were dead Japanese all over the place They were waiting on the beach for the infantry to push inland and then they could set up a better radar station (33:55) One Year in Guam • Rex continued working with radar and helped bring in a Navy TBF torpedo bomber into the area • The Navy Seabees arrived and began working on the air strip • The Marine men got along well the Navy • Men in the Navy got better meals and had better living conditions • Rex and others got close to a few native families • Many of the natives worked with them or for them, helping with laundry and other things like that • There were many Japanese hiding in the hills and remained there for years, avoiding capture (40:50) Daily Life • There were many USO shows with lots of celebrities • Rex was in Guam for a long time and barely any of the damage had been repaired by the time he left • The US later came back in and helped rebuild the area • Rex often had to work on guard duty while in Guam • There were many Japanese soldiers sneaking around at night; they would sneak up to Americans sleeping in fox holes and spear them • Rex was replaced right before the invasion of Iwo Jima (47:50) Posts War • Rex had been sent back to the US in April of 1945 and was working in Texas when Japan was bombed • He began working on aircraft that were later used during the Korean War • After three years in the Marines it was difficult for Rex to get used to civilian life � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The Library of Congress established the Veterans History Project in 2001 to collect memories, accounts, and documents of U.S. war veterans from World War II and the Korean War, Vietnam War, and conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, and to preserve these stories for future generations. The GVSU History Department interviews are part of this work-in-progress, and may contain videos and audio recordings, transcripts and interview outlines, and related documents and photographs. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1914- Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Afghan War, 2001--Personal narratives, American Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981--Personal narratives, American Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American Michigan--History, Military Oral history Persian Gulf War, 1991--Personal narratives, American United States--History, Military United States. Air Force United States. Army United States. Navy Veterans Video recordings Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James Boring, Frank Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27 Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project interviews (RHC-27)</a> Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RogersR Title A name given to the resource Rogers, Rex (Interview outline and video), 2008 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rogers, Rex Description An account of the resource Rex Rogers was born in Lansing, Michigan. He was drafted into the Marines and sent to San Diego, California in February of 1943. After basic training Rex continued with radio training and then was sent to Texas. Rex lived in the dormitories of Texas A & M for 8 months where he went through specialized training, working with radar. Rex later became part of the Air Warning Squadron where he helped detect approaching enemy and instructed fighters where enemy was located for attack. He participated in the invasion of Guam continued working on radar in Guam until he was replaced shortly before the invasion of Iwo Jima. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James (Interviewer) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) United States--History, Military Michigan--History, Military Veterans United States. 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/da4d19756bdd1a81b96128861b3affa2.jpg 355e226e257e09940722bc77d0d7a4c3 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Douglas R. Gilbert Photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Gilbert, Douglas R., 1942-2023 Description An account of the resource Photographs scanned from negatives and transparencies from the Douglas R. Gilbert papers (RHC-183). Douglas R. Gilbert (b. 1942) is an American photographer from Michigan. He was born in Holland, Michigan and is the son of Russell W. and Carmen (Andree) Gilbert. Gilbert earned a B.A. in social sciences and art at Michigan State University in 1964, an M.S. in photography from the Institute of Design at Illinois Institute of Technology in 1972, and a M.S.W. from Salem State College in 1993. He is married to Barbara (McDonald) Gilbert, and has three daughters, Robyn, Rachel, and Anne. Gilbert took a serious interest in photography at the age of fourteen. In 1963 he joined the staff of Look magazine in New York as the second youngest photojournalist in the magazine's history. As a Look photographer from 1964 to 1966, he photographed folk musician Bob Dylan, the Newport Folk Festival, Simon and Garfunkel, the New York City Financial District, the children and facilities at the Manhattan School for Seriously Disturbed Children. From 1967 to 1969, Gilbert did several shoots, including that of folk singer Janis Ian for Life magazine. After moving to Chicago, Illinois in 1969 to attend the Illinois Institute of Technology, Gilbert conducted notable photo shoots of business and political figure Lenore Romney, and pursued more personal and artistic photography, focusing on urban and rural landscapes in Illinois and Michigan. He then joined the faculty of Wheaton College, where he taught from 1972 to 1982. In 1993, Gilbert graduated from Salem State College, Massachusetts, with a Masters in Social Work, and later pursued a second career as a psychotherapist. Douglas Gilbert died in June 2023. Throughout his photography career, he pursued both freelance commercial work as well as artistic work. His art photography is characterized by its classic black-and-white format, and features people, places and objects shot great attention and sensitivity. 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Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1985-09-01 Title A name given to the resource Roll Over Barrel Ride, Salisbury Beach Description An account of the resource Black and white photograph of a "Roll Over Barrel" amusement ride at Salisbury Beach’s Amusement Center in Salisbury, Massachusetts. Scanned from the negative. Subject The topic of the resource Amusement rides--Massachusetts--Salisbury Salisbury (Mass.) Salisbury (Mass. : Town) Black-and-white photography Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/783">Douglas R. 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Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/0b310ba23a098d97783c4112a49cc19e.pdf 782c4c3ef5938949032674a6c5406c1d PDF Text Text Young Lords In Lincoln Park Interviewee: Román Rodríguez Interviewers: José “Cha-Cha” Jiménez Location: Grand Valley State University Special Collections Date: 5/12/2012 Biography and Description Román Rodríguez served in the U.S. army during World War II and moved to Chicago’s La Clark neighborhood in 1953. For many years, his wife, Clautilde Jiménez, taught in the Chicago public school system. They also lived in Lincoln Park and were both active members in the Damas de María and Caballeros de San Juan of Council Number Three. A powerful and eloquent orator, Mr. Rodríguez has been a frequent speaker at Caballeros de San Juan functions across a variety of parishes. He also became a deacon and participated in the mass at St. Silvesters in Humbolt Park/Logan Square, where he helped to solidify the growing community of Puerto Ricans who were being forced out of Lincoln Park.In his oral history, Mr. Rodríguez reflects on the changes he has seen over the years in Chicago and the displacement of Puerto Rican families from Lincoln Park. He expresses his inability to understand why Puerto Ricans were experiencing discrimination especially after they had served in the U.S. military and given their lives for United States. He describes in rich detail, a community of hard working and religious people, dedicated to their families and their faith. In Puerto Rico in the 1940s, Mr. Rodríguez would entertain his siblings by improvising jibaro music after working a hard day in the fields. Like other Puerto Rican pioneers in Chicago, he brought his love of music with him to the city and continued this tradition there. � https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/3d687c00e29080f03f4b376faa9c732f.mp4 0c08c94a94bc2d0f5709ab8ec5381fb8 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Young Lords in Lincoln Park Collection Subject The topic of the resource Young Lords (Organization) Puerto Ricans--United States Civil Rights--United States--History Lincoln Park (Chicago, Ill.) Personal narratives Social justice Community activists--Illinois--Chicago Description An account of the resource Collection of oral history interviews and digitized materials documenting the history of the Young Lords Organization in Lincoln Park, Chicago. Interviews were conducted by Young Lords' founder, José “Cha-Cha” Jiménez, and documents were digitized from Mr. Jiménez' archives. The Young Lords in Lincoln Park collection grows out of the ongoing struggle for fair housing, self-determination, and human rights that was launched by Mr. José “Cha-Cha” Jiménez, founder of the Young Lords Movement. This project is dedicated to documenting the history of the displacement of Puerto Ricans, Mejicanos, other Latinos, and the poor from Lincoln Park, as well as the history of the Young Lords nationwide. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jiménez, José, 1948- Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/491">Young Lords in Lincoln Park collection (RHC-65)</a> Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. 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Título Spanish language Title entry Román Rodríguez vídeo entrevista y biografía Sujetos Spanish language Subject terms Young Lords (Organización) Puertorriqueños--Estados Unidos Derechos civiles--Estados Unidos--Historia Lincoln Park (Chicago, Ill.) Narrativas personales Justicia social Activistas comunitarios--Illinois--Chicago Puertorriqueños--Illinois--Chicago--Vida social y costumbres Renovación urbana--Illinois--Chicago Source <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/491">Young Lords in Lincoln Park (RHC-65)</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-65_Rodriguez_Roman Title A name given to the resource Román Rodríguez inerview and biography Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Rodríguez, Román Description An account of the resource Román Rodríguez served in the U.S. army during World War II and moved to Chicago’s La Clark neighborhood in 1953. For many years, his wife, Clautilde Jiménez, taught in the Chicago public school system. They also lived in Lincoln Park and were both active members in the Damas de María and Caballeros de San Juan of Council Number Three. A powerful and eloquent orator, Mr. Rodríguez has been a frequent speaker at Caballeros de San Juan functions across a variety of parishes. He also became a deacon and participated in the mass at St. Silvesters in Humbolt Park/Logan Square, where he helped to solidify the growing community of Puerto Ricans who were being forced out of Lincoln Park. In his oral history, Mr. Rodríguez reflects on the changes he has seen over the years in Chicago and the displacement of Puerto Rican families from Lincoln Park. He expresses his inability to understand why Puerto Ricans were experiencing discrimination especially after they had served in the U.S. military and given their lives for United States. He describes in rich detail, a community of hard working and religious people, dedicated to their families and their faith. In Puerto Rico in the 1940s, Mr. Rodríguez would entertain his siblings by improvising jibaro music after working a hard day in the fields. Like other Puerto Rican pioneers in Chicago, he brought his love of music with him to the city and continued this tradition there. Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Jiménez, José, 1948- Subject The topic of the resource Young Lords (Organization) Puerto Ricans--United States Civil Rights--United States--History Lincoln Park (Chicago, Ill.) Puerto Ricans--Personal narratives Social justice Community activists--Illinois--Chicago Puerto Ricans--Illinois--Chicago--Social life and customs Urban renewal--Illinois--Chicago Language A language of the resource spa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Moving Image Text Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource video/mp4 application/pdf Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2012-05-12 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. 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Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Source Seidman Rare Books. PR6005.O4 R6 1904 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context DC-01_Bindings0158 Title A name given to the resource Romance Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Jordan, William James Description An account of the resource Binding of Romance, by Joseph Conrad and Ford M. Hueffer, published by McClure Phillips & Co., 1904. Subject The topic of the resource Book covers Covers (Illustration) Graphic arts Publishers and publishing Pictorial bindings Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/NoC-US/1.0/?language=en">No Copyright - United States</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1904 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/85756bf916ed16e086a9a6cd3ddb4b9a.mp4 f1088d875b31eaca53eb98b83fe0475b https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/cd26ac332aea2637f6551727f8b8950a.pdf 373ad511f49856c12a6e502ed22c6596 PDF Text Text Grand Valley State University Veterans’ History Project Otis “Butch” Romans Vietnam War 2 hours 7 minutes 27 seconds (00:00:36) Early Life -Born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1945 -His father had been in the Navy in World War II and fought in the Pacific Theatre -He grew up in Muskegon, Michigan -His father found work in the factories in Michigan after the war -He lived between St. Louis and Muskegon -His mother would occasionally take him and his siblings back to St. Louis -He graduated from Muskegon High School in 1964 -After high school he found a job (00:02:26) Volunteering for the Draft -He always planned on joining the military -He was inspired by war movies and World War I -He always wanted to be a paratrooper -When he was old enough he began to consider enlisting -When he was eighteen he registered for the draft -He received orders to report for an Army physical -He went to downtown Muskegon and was taken by bus to Fort Wayne in Detroit -He spent the night in Fort Wayne and did they physical all day the next day -This happened in1966 -The draft was in effect by now and Vietnam had escalated -There were some that didn’t want to get drafted and tried to avoid it -This was more prevalent during the second -He was approved for service -He ultimately decided to just volunteer for the draft -The draft was a two year commitment and enlisting was a four year commitment (00:06:52) Basic Training -He was sent to Fort Knox, Kentucky for basic training -Prior to that he had a second physical at Fort Wayne in Detroit -Afterwards he was sworn into the Army -He was taken by train to Louisville, Kentucky -Greeted by drill sergeants at the train station -From Louisville he was taken to Fort Knox by bus -When he arrived at Fort Knox he started getting screamed at and given orders by drill sergeants -Part of immediately getting immersed into the regimen of Army living -On the first night he and the other recruits were shown how to make their bunks properly -They were all marched to a processing center -Picture taken, blood work done, given haircuts, and issued fatigues -Had to take the clothes that were given to you even if they weren’t the right size -After four days of processing they were loaded onto a truck and taken to the basic training �-Part of the fort and not a separate facility -After the first week they were issued rifles -The first week consisted of classroom work -Learning about how the Army is set up, protocol, and other basic information -Basic training consisted of a lot of physical training -The rifle that he was issued was the M14 -Taken to the rifle range and taught how to sight their guns -Given training on how to carry out assaults and how to fight with bayonets -He adjusted quickly to Army living -He could run well and was in shape so the physical training wasn’t difficult -He went into the Army knowing that he was going to get yelled at -He remembers one recruit that couldn’t march which led to him (Butch) getting yelled at too -It was part of the idea that they weren’t individuals; rather, they were a unit -A lot of the recruits were from the South, but some were from Michigan -Lasted eight weeks (00:16:45) Advanced Infantry Training (AIT) -A lot of the men were receiving orders to go to Fort Polk for infantry training -His orders were for Fort Dix, New Jersey -This meant that he would be going to paratrooper training after Fort Dix -The training at Fort Dix was focused on learning how to be an infantryman -The training there was easier for him because he had adjusted to being in the Army -Most of the men at Fort Dix were from the southeast (The Carolinas, Georgia, etc.) -Only two or three of the other men were going to paratrooper school -All of the AIT was focused on preparing for getting deployed to Vietnam -There were mock Vietnamese villages -Getting prepared to fight the Viet Cong and the North Vietnamese -Most of the instructors had been to Vietnam -They followed the training program, but also offered their own advice -He was able to visit Philadelphia while he was in AIT -AIT was a little more relaxed than basic training -Lasted eight weeks (00:23:17) Jungle Training -At Fort Dix he also went through a training course called Jungle Training -It lasted one week -Trained on how to patrol Vietnamese villages -Learned about the guerrilla tactics used by the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese -There was a wooded area near the fort that served as the “jungle” area -Received some training on how to survive being a prisoner of war -Taught about and exposed to some interrogation techniques (00:24:25) Paratrooper Training -He went to “jump school” (paratrooper training) at Fort Benning, Georgia -It lasted three weeks -First week: ground training -Second week: tower training (jumping out of a tower on a zip line to mimic a jump) -Third week: Five qualification jumps (parachuting out of an airplane five times) -During this portion of training he had to run everywhere �-Heights didn’t bother him at the time -The jumps that they did were called “static line jumps” -The ripcord of the chute is hooked to a wire in the airplane -When you jump out the door the ripcord is pulled and the chute is deployed -He didn’t get hurt during any of his jumps -The chutes couldn’t be controlled which meant that they were at the mercy of the wind -He knew one training unit where some men were hurt during windy jumps (00:26:56) Deployment to Vietnam -From there he was sent to Fort Bragg, North Carolina to join the 82nd Airborne Division -He was only there for a month -Served with the 504th Infantry Regiment -A unit in the 1st Air Cavalry Division had openings in Vietnam -He decided to transfer to that unit -He was given ten days of leave before reporting to be deployed -He went to San Francisco and was given a physical exam and vaccinations -He was placed on a military transport with other men bound for the 1st Air Cavalry -Stopped at Wake Island to refuel -Stopped at Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines due to engine problems (00:31:06) Arrival in Vietnam -Arrived in Pleiku -Remembers the intense heat and seeing ripples off the ground -He was shown where bunkers were in the event a mortar or rocket attack happened -He was taken to a reception station in Pleiku -He was told stories about the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley -From Pleiku he was taken by Caribou military transport up to An Khe -It was too dangerous to travel on the road (00:34:28) Joining the 1st Air Cavalry Division -The concept of air assault by using helicopters was a fairly new one -During the Vietnam War the 1st Cavalry Division became the 1st Air Cavalry Division -They had access to 648 helicopters (mostly Huey helicopters) -He was sent to another reception station at An Khe -He was assigned to 1st Battalion of the 7th Cavalry Regiment of the 1st Air Cavalry Division -It had fought at the Battle of the Little Bighorn and the Battle of the Ia Drang Valley -It was Colonel Custer’s old battalion -He arrived at night in An Khe and was given a folding cot to sleep on, but no rifle -He remembers everyone having a pocket bible that they kept in their pocket over their heart -It was for moral support, but it also added a little protection -The next day he was given an M16 assault rifle -He had never shot one before getting to Vietnam -Given twenty magazines of ammunition, necessary gear, and a flak jacket -He was given a week of “Remount Training” -Learning how to rappel out of a Chinook and Huey helicopter -Given more bayonet training and more target practice on the gun range -He rappelled out of helicopters at ninety feet -Given hand to hand combat training -The last day they ran up, then down, a hill rigged with fake booby traps �-Also told that no Vietnamese civilians were safe -Even children were used by the communists to kill American soldiers -Some were more trustworthy than others though -Workers on base were safe, but they were the only ones (00:44:18) Going into the Field -He went out to the field and joined his platoon and his company -They were operating near the Ia Drang Valley -He spent the first night in the field with Headquarters Company -He was considered a “FNG” by the other men in his unit -Inexperienced and a danger to the other men -He was given the duty of carrying ammunition for the M60 heavy machine gun -He was only given a little instruction by the other men -Told to get rid of most of his gear so he could carry more ammunition -Told to tape magazines together so they could be reloaded faster -Learned to only keep eighteen rounds in the magazine as opposed to twenty -Otherwise the rifle would jam -They walked to Landing Zone X-Ray -Site of intense fighting during the Battle of the Ia Drang where 200 men were killed -Considered hallowed ground and ordered to walk in silence -Walked over the dry creek bed where there was heavy fighting -Saw the mountain where the North Vietnamese base had been -They set up camp for the night and the next day moved over toe Landing Zone Albany -Also considered hallowed ground because more men died there than at X-Ray -Got to the Ia Drang River and crossed it -They took some sniper fire during that extended patrol, but didn’t get into any firefights -The patrol lasted three weeks then they rotated back to An Khe for two days (00:53:06) Transfer to 2nd Battalion -The 1st Battalion had too many soldiers so he was transferred to B 2nd Battalion 5th Cav Reg -He was still viewed as being a “FNG” by his new unit -This assumption remained until he explained that he’d been in country for three weeks (00:55:25) In the Field with 2nd Battalion -It was 100-105oF and humid every day -Jungle fatigues would be soaked with sweat during the day -By nightfall it was 70oF and he would be freezing -Started to learn how to anticipate night ambushes and when to set up a listening post -A listening post usually had three men and a radio, watching for enemy movement -If there was a trail, they knew they would have contact that night -He would only get about two full nights of sleep each week -At the end of marching for the day they would stop and set up camp -First by establishing a perimeter and digging foxholes -Then by setting up trip flares and claymore antipersonnel mines -He remembers setting up camp one night and the lieutenant had a bad feeling about it -Decided that they needed to move and set up a new camp -Usually worked as a platoon (20-40 men), but sometimes as a company (100-200 men) (00:59:42) Working with Other Units -Sometimes they would work with Alpha and Charlie Company on larger operations �-Delta Company was usually close by supporting them with heavy weapons -When they worked with these other companies they never saw them though -In the areas they operated in there were firebases -These bases had larger artillery and could support them if necessary -Stayed about five miles from a firebase -Some nights the firebases would do what is known as “fire for effect” -Established where friendly units were -Kept enemy units out of the area for fear of getting hit by artillery (01:02:05) Living Conditions in the Field Pt. 1 -He stayed with Bravo Company (2nd Battalion/5th Cavalry Regiment) for two and a half months -Spent most of that time on extended patrols -Lived on C Rations for food -Helicopters would come in at night to give them extra food and water -This was in the event that they were cut off due to an ambush -They always made sure to set up camp near a landing zone -Sometimes they would set up camp early so they could get hot food flown into them -Some of the C Rations that they had were from 1945 (01:05:00) Enemy Contact -Had more enemy contact in 2nd of the 5th than in the 1st of the 7th -Most combat was sporadic firefights and random encounters with enemy troops -The North Vietnamese would only stay and fight if they knew that they had more soldiers -There was concern that if the enemy retreated that an enemy mortar strike was coming -Ran into a lot of enemy bunker complexes in the area that they operated in -Rocket propelled grenades were a major threat -Did not participate in any major actions -Remembers the sounds of the firefights being very chaotic -The firing of heavy weapons and small arms and the screaming of orders and wounded -When he was in 1st Battalion his 1st Lieutenant told him to stay calm and focused -If you were able to do those two things you could pick targets and do your job -Listening posts were always relatively quiet, but because of that your mind played tricks on you (01:10:00) Interacting with Civilians -He remembers one night they set up camp near a village -At night a trip flare was set off, as a result they detonated their claymores -When the movement continued they opened fire in the direction of the trip flare -When morning came it was discovered that the “enemy” had been a wayward buffalo -Army officials came in and paid the villagers for the dead water buffalo -They would walk through villages on their patrols -Children would come up to them asking for food -Some of the more hardened soldiers would just shove them away -He would always stop and give them something from his rations though -In retrospect he feels bad for the villagers because they were placed in a difficult position -They were forced to help the Viet Cong -If they helped the Viet Cong they would be killed or arrested by U.S. forces -If they refused to help the Viet Cong though, then the Viet Cong killed them -Learned that some of the Viet Cong didn’t exactly want communism, they were just nationalists -They were sick of a foreign power running Vietnam �-They just wanted self-government, even if it was communism (01:14:16) Prostitution and Drug Use -Prostitution and drugs were a problem in the urban areas -Remembers on the road from the base to the city of An Khe there was a collection of brothels -These brothels were actually overseen by the Army and, in a way, encouraged -The prostitutes were examined by Army doctors on a weekly basis -The Army set the prices for the services offered -It kept soldiers safe and in a controlled environment -In the field prostitution was almost nonexistent -There was drug use in the field, but he didn’t see it -Remembers that some of the villagers would smoke marijuana (01:17:40) Encounter with a Gay Man -When he was still at Fort Dix some girls in a nearby town wanted to throw him a party -He had kitchen patrol duty and missed the last train for the night to the town -At the train station he struck up conversation with a man there -The man invited him to stay the night at his house -On the way there the man told him that he was gay -He didn’t know what “gay” was and thought he was a comedian -The man finally cleared up the confusion, but was respectful of Butch -In the morning he even made sure that Butch woke up and caught the train (01:22:25) Living Conditions in the Field Pt. 2 -Every day was basically the same with Bravo Company -Lived each day in the mud, in the heat, in the rain and sleep deprived -Sometimes you wanted to get into a firefight just so you could lie down -He became close with people, but at the same time you didn’t get to know much about them -Example: Didn’t learn people’s names, just their nicknames and state of origin (01:24:25) Operation Pershing and Getting Wounded -His unit was participating in Operation Pershing in a place called Bong Son -The North Vietnamese were trying to cut off northern South Vietnam from U.S. troops -Seventy six helicopters were flown up to Bong Son on the coast of the South China Sea -After they got established they started to work their way across Highway One -For three weeks they didn’t make contact with enemy soldiers -They got to a clearing and were supposed to cross to the opposite side and set up a camp there -They were ordered to go straight across the open plain -He was walking behind the point man when a machine gun opened fire on them -The point man was hit and he (Butch) dove behind a small knoll -The machine gun started firing on his position and he was hit in the leg -It felt like being hit in the leg with a sledgehammer -He thought that he was going to die -He was more concerned about the survival of the point man though -Decided that he’d rather die for his country than in a car accident or to a disease -Gunships flew in and started providing covering fire for Bravo Company -He was loaded onto a gunship and was evacuated out of the field -He was conscious through the whole thing -He thought that he would be healed in twenty four hours and could go back to the field -Not the case though because he had a shattered tibia and could never fight again �(01:34:57) Recovery -He always grew up under the impression that gunshot wounds healed quickly -He was sent to a hospital and went into surgery -Given a spinal shot to numb him from the waist down -He could still feel the incision being made, so they put him to sleep -The next day he had to lift a small weight with his legs before he was evacuated to Japan -Most likely to see if his wounded leg was stable enough to be moved -He was loaded onto a large military transport to be evacuated to Japan -Remembers that it was filled with cots and there was an operating room in the plane -They stopped in the Philippines and then flew on to Camp Zama, Japan -In Japan he had his second surgery and was given the option to have the bone rebuilt -The other option was to just have a metal rod inserted -He decided to have his tibia rebuilt -After the surgery a cast was placed on his leg, but it was so tight that his leg swelled up -Remembers that it was incredibly painful -At the hospital in Japan there was a sign that said “Welcome War Heroes” -Remembers being treated well and given a beer -Felt guilt though because while he was comfortable his friends were still out fighting -He stayed in Japan for a month -He was loaded onto another plane and flown to Ireland Army Community Hospital in Fort Knox -When he was in Japan he was able to call home and say that he was wounded, but okay -He had what was called a “Million Dollar Wound” -Would almost fully recover without consequence, but wouldn’t go back to fight -He fell into a deep depression because of the guilt he was feeling -The Red Cross finally urged him to just write home for the sake of his family -When he got to the hospital in Fort Knox he was given a hamburger and a beer -The guilt was still there though (01:46:15) End of Service -He wound up spending four (or five) months in the hospital in Fort Knox -During that time he was given “convalescence leave” -Way for him to free up the bed that he was in -His parents and one of his sisters came down and visited him one weekend -Remembers asking them to buy him a bag of potato chips -During his leave he was greeted by relatives at the airport -Guilty because he knew his friends wouldn’t get that kind of welcoming -After his cast was taken off he was told that he could be medically discharged -Decided instead to complete his commitment -Went before a board of doctors to prove that the surgery had worked -A reenlistment officer approached him and urged him not to reenlist -He finally relented and agreed not to reenlist -He finished his duty at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia -His duty was to drive men out to a place for ambush training and instruct them a little bit -Later he would drive back and pick them up after training for the day was done -Because of his wound he didn’t have to pull guard duty -He felt bad because when he arrived because command gave him a recruit’s bed -The recruit was kicked out of the barracks and had to sleep in a tent �-At the end of his two year commitment he went to Fort Lee, Virginia to get discharged -A friend from Muskegon drove down and picked him up (01:53:41) Coming Home & Life after the War -On the trip home he remembers stopping in Washington D.C. to see the Detroit Tigers play -He was told to get out of uniform, keep his service a secret, and not to talk about Vietnam -Confused him because he wanted to be proud of his service -Remembers being at a bar with some friends -Some people at a nearby table heard he had been in Vietnam and became confrontational -He knew one man in Vietnam that would volunteer for dangerous jobs -His rationale was that he would rather die in Vietnam than come back to harassment -He did wind up dying in Vietnam -Appreciates the fact that now at least people don’t blame the soldiers for war -And that soldiers are properly welcomed home -During the war he had sent most of his money home to save, so he took the summer off -He wound up getting a job in Muskegon in office supply (most likely in 1969) -Stayed with it for thirty eight years (02:01:40) Reflections on Service -He wouldn’t want to do it again, but if he had to he would -After 9/11 he called up a local recruiter to ask if there was anything he could to help -Believes that the political correctness and ignorance of politicians lost America the war -Remembers that if there were enemy soldiers in Cambodia they couldn’t shoot them -Even if the enemy soldiers were shooting at them -He feels that our strategies and the Army’s inefficiency is why North Vietnam took over -Believes that the United States is worth fighting, and if necessary dying for -Feels that sometimes we take our rights and our government for granted -Believes that people should get all of their information before protesting something -Believes that the draft was a good thing � Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Veterans History Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. History Department Description An account of the resource The Library of Congress established the Veterans History Project in 2001 to collect memories, accounts, and documents of U.S. war veterans from World War II and the Korean War, Vietnam War, and conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere, and to preserve these stories for future generations. The GVSU History Department interviews are part of this work-in-progress, and may contain videos and audio recordings, transcripts and interview outlines, and related documents and photographs. Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1914- Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Subject The topic of the resource Afghan War, 2001--Personal narratives, American Iran Hostage Crisis, 1979-1981--Personal narratives, American Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American Michigan--History, Military Oral history Persian Gulf War, 1991--Personal narratives, American United States--History, Military United States. Air Force United States. Army United States. Navy Veterans Video recordings Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James Boring, Frank Relation A related resource Veterans History Project (U.S.) Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27 Language A language of the resource eng Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/455">Veterans History Project interviews (RHC-27)</a> Oral History A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-27_RomansO1718V Title A name given to the resource Romans, Otis (Interview outline and video), 2014 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2014-12-18 Description An account of the resource Butch Romans is a Vietnam War veteran who was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1945. He grew up in Muskegon, Michigan and in 1966 he volunteered for the draft. He received basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky, advanced infantry training at Fort Dix, New Jersey, and paratrooper training at Fort Benning, Georgia. He was deployed to Vietnam with the 1st Air Cavalry Division where he first served with the 1st Battalion of the 7th Cavalry Regiment in the Ia Drang Valley and later with Bravo Company of the 2nd Battalion of the 5th Cavalry Regiment in the area around An Khe. During Operation Pershing in Bong Son he was wounded and was medically evacuated. After recovering he completed his service at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia and was ultimately discharged from the Army at Fort Lee, Virginia in 1969. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Romans, Otis Contributor An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource Smither, James (Interviewer) WKTV (Wyoming, Mich.) Subject The topic of the resource Oral history Veterans History Project (U.S.) United States--History, Military Michigan--History, Military Veterans Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Personal narratives, American United States. 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Special Collections & University Archives Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2017-07-17 Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV028-06 Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant 1963 – 1981 Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV028-06_Romantics Title A name given to the resource Romantics with The Seatbelts, February 25, 1978 Subject The topic of the resource Grand Valley State University Grand Valley State College Michigan Allendale (Mich.) Universities & colleges--Michigan Events Posters Description An account of the resource Romantics with The Seatbelts, in the Campus Center Theater, February 25, 1978 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/page/InC/1.0/?language=en">In Copyright</a> Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1978 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/106">Student Services concerts, events, and posters files, (GV028-06)</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/3e85be260b58bff66799a4711ca6de66.jpg 44d417a4523a872c2575bb2c30ea07c1 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Robert H. Merrill photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1909/1950 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-222 Description An account of the resource Photographs, negatives, and lantern slides digitized from the papers of engineer and archaeologist Robert H. Merrill. A Grand Rapids native, Merrill held an accomplished career as a civil engineer. He founded the company Spooner & Merrill, which held offices in Grand Rapids and Chicago. From 1919-1921, Merrill lived in China, working as Assistant Principal Engineer on a reconstruction of the Grand Canal - the oldest and longest canal system in the world. Merrill became fascinated by archaeology, and among other projects, he traveled to the Uxmal Pyramids in Yucatan, Mexico, with a research expedition from Tulane University. Merrill's photo collection includes images of his travels and projects, friends and family. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Merrill_LS00376 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1937 Title A name given to the resource Rome Forum: Eastern End Description An account of the resource Black and white lantern slide of the Roman Forum's east end in Rome, Italy. Serie Artistica No. 17356 Subject The topic of the resource Lantern slides Rome (Italy) Ruins Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/8941354aa816a9973489cf1f761be503.jpg e6b3fccc48af9f90d67a7c0a98aa2988 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Robert H. Merrill photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1909/1950 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-222 Description An account of the resource Photographs, negatives, and lantern slides digitized from the papers of engineer and archaeologist Robert H. Merrill. A Grand Rapids native, Merrill held an accomplished career as a civil engineer. He founded the company Spooner & Merrill, which held offices in Grand Rapids and Chicago. From 1919-1921, Merrill lived in China, working as Assistant Principal Engineer on a reconstruction of the Grand Canal - the oldest and longest canal system in the world. Merrill became fascinated by archaeology, and among other projects, he traveled to the Uxmal Pyramids in Yucatan, Mexico, with a research expedition from Tulane University. Merrill's photo collection includes images of his travels and projects, friends and family. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Merrill_LS00377 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1937-03-19 Title A name given to the resource Rome Forum: Eastern End Description An account of the resource Black and white lantern slide of the Roman Forum's east end in Rome, Italy. Subject The topic of the resource Lantern slides Rome (Italy) Ruins Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/f90ba4263566893ff8e33b0afab05db1.jpg 2dba3365d998492898ff6f02c316d4e0 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Robert H. Merrill photographs Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1909/1950 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context RHC-222 Description An account of the resource Photographs, negatives, and lantern slides digitized from the papers of engineer and archaeologist Robert H. Merrill. A Grand Rapids native, Merrill held an accomplished career as a civil engineer. He founded the company Spooner & Merrill, which held offices in Grand Rapids and Chicago. From 1919-1921, Merrill lived in China, working as Assistant Principal Engineer on a reconstruction of the Grand Canal - the oldest and longest canal system in the world. Merrill became fascinated by archaeology, and among other projects, he traveled to the Uxmal Pyramids in Yucatan, Mexico, with a research expedition from Tulane University. Merrill's photo collection includes images of his travels and projects, friends and family. Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context Merrill_LS00375 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource circa 1937 Title A name given to the resource Rome Forum: Western End Description An account of the resource Black and white lantern slide of the Roman Forum's west end in Rome, Italy. Serie Artistica No. 17357 Subject The topic of the resource Lantern slides Rome (Italy) Ruins Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Robert H. Merrill papers (RHC-222) Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource In Copyright Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Language A language of the resource eng Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Merrill, Robert H., 1881-1955 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/57538e4b2c18c791b65fb1938c5ed216.jpg 97c927435ee720919539f005a2c81077 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource GVSU Theatre Photos Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Theatre Department Description An account of the resource Photographs of Grand Valley theater productions from the 1980s to the 2010s. Photos include shots of performances, backstage, casts and crewmembers. Included in the collection are Shakespeare Festival productions and small acts such as Bard to Go and the Greenshow. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright Grand Valley State University Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV058-01 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1982-2017 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Theatre Department photographs (GV058-01) Subject The topic of the resource Theater Performances Plays Musicals College Students Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives. Allendale, MI 49401 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Language A language of the resource eng Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV058-01_1995F_Romeo-and-Juliet_005 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Theatre Department Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1995 Title A name given to the resource Romeo and Juliet (theater production), 1995 Description An account of the resource Color photograph of Grand Valley's 1995 production of "Romeo and Juliet." In this image a young man in renaissance clothing speaks with an older man in a habit. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource GVSU Theatre Photos Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Theatre Department Description An account of the resource Photographs of Grand Valley theater productions from the 1980s to the 2010s. Photos include shots of performances, backstage, casts and crewmembers. Included in the collection are Shakespeare Festival productions and small acts such as Bard to Go and the Greenshow. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright Grand Valley State University Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV058-01 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1982-2017 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Theatre Department photographs (GV058-01) Subject The topic of the resource Theater Performances Plays Musicals College Students Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives. Allendale, MI 49401 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Language A language of the resource eng Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV058-01_1995F_Romeo-and-Juliet_006 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Theatre Department Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1995 Title A name given to the resource Romeo and Juliet (theater production), 1995 Description An account of the resource Color photograph of Grand Valley's 1995 production of "Romeo and Juliet." In this image two men are fencing. One sits on the floor and holds his sword upwards, while the other bends over him. Both are dressed in period clothing. 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For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource GVSU Theatre Photos Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Theatre Department Description An account of the resource Photographs of Grand Valley theater productions from the 1980s to the 2010s. Photos include shots of performances, backstage, casts and crewmembers. Included in the collection are Shakespeare Festival productions and small acts such as Bard to Go and the Greenshow. Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Copyright Grand Valley State University Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV058-01 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1982-2017 Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived Theatre Department photographs (GV058-01) Subject The topic of the resource Theater Performances Plays Musicals College Students Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives. Allendale, MI 49401 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpg Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Language A language of the resource eng Still Image A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials. Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context GV058-01_1995F_Romeo-and-Juliet_007 Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Grand Valley State University. Theatre Department Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1995 Title A name given to the resource Romeo and Juliet (theater production), 1995 Description An account of the resource Color photograph of Grand Valley's 1995 production of "Romeo and Juliet." In this image the full cast poses together on stage. All are wearing period clothing. Subject The topic of the resource Theater College students Plays Performances Acting Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived <a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/754">Theatre Department photographs (GV058-01)</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource <a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a> Type The nature or genre of the resource Image Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource image/jpeg Language A language of the resource eng Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Lemmen Library and Archives 1995s