Sujette Crank oral history interview, April 12, 1993

Interviewed by Kathryn Nasstrom. Among topics discussed: Early family life; Morris Brown College; early schooling; Northwestern University; Evanston, Illinois; black life at Northwestern; Alpha Kappa Alpha; local community service; sororities role in Evanston; fundraisers; mother's role; teaching at Washington High School. Jane Boyd; community house in Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Chicago YWCA; segregation at the Y; workshops at the Y; operating a day camp; Metropolitan Education Group; Phyllis Wheatley YWCA; Mamie Kay Taylor; struggles to promote desegregation at the Wheatley Y; the Chicago Y and unionism; Helen Vanderweslein; forming a union at the Y; AFL‑CIO. Forming a union at the Chicago Y; AFL and CIO competition; Mamie Taylor; highlights of tenure at YWCA; raising money; membership drives; Dr. Harry B. Richardson; YMCA and YWCA differences; prominent contributors to the Y; building a stronger base for the Y; Harvest Tea; leaving the Y; the Employment Opportunities Atlanta; Robert Thompson. EOA; Frankie Adams; animosity toward the EOA; EOA spending; poverty; Ku Klux Klan; Calvin Craig; Model Cities program; instinctive politics in the black community; John Calhoun; mass conventions in the 1960s; Q. V. Williamson; 1965 riots; Ivan Allen Jr.; community's reaction to the building of Atlanta‑Fulton County Stadium; Deacon Peters; Edward Moody; Mattie Ansley; Ethel Matthews; highlights of EOA career.