Wendell and Barb McAfoos Oral History Interview
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- 2018-11-16
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Wendell and Barb McAfoos were born and raised in Alton, Illinois. In this interview, they describe their lives in the Alton area through the 1940s, 50s, and 60s. Topics covered include school life, cars, school socials, daily challenges and everyday life in rural Illinois, segregation of public spaces, desegregation of the Alton schools, toys and games kids played, their founding of the health club “Metro Sports,” and the history of industry in t...
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- Madison Historical - Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
- Subjects
- Alton
- Location
- Alton, Illinois
- Type
- sound
- Language
- English
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- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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- Wendell and Barb McAfoos Oral History Interview. 2018-11-16. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://madison-historical.siue.edu/archive/items/show/1692. (Accessed March 29, 2024.)
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- (2018-11-16) Wendell and Barb McAfoos Oral History Interview. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, https://madison-historical.siue.edu/archive/items/show/1692
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- Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <https://madison-historical.siue.edu/archive/items/show/1692>.