Ralph Thompson

Title

Ralph Thompson

Description

One example of “the extraordinary resilience of black citizens, who individually and collectively found ways to endure, fight back and occasionally define their own destinies…”

Ralph Thompson was born in 1935 and interviewed in 1995 at the age of 60 in Memphis, TN.

Source

William H. Chafe, Raymond Gavins, Robert Korstad eds., Remembering Jim Crow: African Americans Tell About Life in the Segregated South (New York: New Press, 2001)

Date

1995

Citation

"Ralph Thompson," in Teaching with Laurel Grove School, Item #82, https://chnm.gmu.edu/laurelgrove/items/show/82 (accessed February 1, 2022).