The Teaneck Oral History Project in 1980s was funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.  The goal is to develop an oral history archive.  The interviews tried to reflect the following areas: 

• Teaneck is a community that had a transition from farm to suburban community; 

• Compare public policy and its intention with the perceptions of impact on its citizenry; 

• Trace the settlement and adjustment of diverse racial and ethnic groups into suburban America;

• What public policies and personal attitudes created a conducive atmosphere for integration.

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Click on the Names to read these interviews: (total 106 interviews)

John Anderson	Joy Zacharia Appelbaum	Marilyn Arons	Milton Bell
Cleo Bonnemere	Thomas Boyd	Bruce R. Bramlett	Robin & John Brancato
Bernard Brooks	Wendell Browne	Frank Burr	Angelo Cafarelli
Edward F. Carpenter	Bernard R. Cheo	Bernard Confer	Charles Cox
Clarice R. Custer	Orra Davage	Ethel Brown Davis	James Delaney
A. Spencer Denham	Marie De Yampert	Julia Downs	Oscar Epstein
Winifred Farrar	Louis N. Feibel	Fay & Martin Geier	Ruth & Harold Glick
Mal Goode	Charles S. Grady	Elizabeth O. Greene	Jacqueline Guttman
Frank Hall	Morton & June Handler	Olive Hazel	Alice Offord Hecht
Saymour Herr	Milt Jackson	Janet Johnston	Lamar Jones
Rori Kanter	David S. Kapell	Mohammed B. Khan	Eleanor Kieliszek
Archie & Theodora Lacey	Ruth Landrine	George Larson	Mildred Larson
Carla Lerman	Paul Lerman	Rose Levitt	Marjorie Lightman
William Lindsay	Pamela Fitzpatrick Lorelli	Richard M. Machol	June Mendelkern
Frank McGlynn	Bob McGrath	Isaac G. McNatt	Brad Menkes
Dr. O. J. Miller	James D. Moore	William (Bill) Moore	Josephine Morten
Ida Mortenson	Judy Murphy	Alfred F. Muscari	Blanche Neal
Jo Paquin	Evelyn Parker	Edward L. Pearson, Jr.	Barbara Cady Peckham
Henry Penney	Lula & Melvin Powell	Rabbi Deborah Prinz	Edwin Reynolds
Wally Richardson	Richard Rodda	Fred Rola	Esther & Myor Rosen
Ruth & Sam Rosenblum	Dick & Viola Sadlier	Peter Sammartino	Isaura Santiago
Charlotte Scarbrough	Allan Schiller	Jacob Schneider	Lou Schwartz
Gertrude Schwimmer	Harvey Scribner	Phoebe Slade	Anita Smith
Phoebe Snow (Laub)	George Spath	Lucy Stamilla	Marcia Strean
Florence & Moses Sultzer	William & Maria Thurnauer	Joan Waite	Imogene Smith Washington
Robbie Wedeen	John H. White, Jr.	Mrs. Betty Wiker	John A. Williams
R. Carolyn Witherspoon	Sylvia Woods

 

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