Code,807011
Subject,Julian Earls
Date,7/11/2006
Interviewer,Alisa Nazelli
Abstract,"Julian Earls, former NASA Research Center Director talks about his time at NASA and Cleveland State University’s Nance College of Business Administration. He gives his personal recollections of Carl and Louis Stokes and the Hough Riots. Earls was the first African-American supervisor at NASA and talks about the racism there. He credits Louis Stokes as the reason NASA is still in Cleveland. There are other interesting stories about Civil Rights, Central State University, and Kappa Alpha Si."
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Special Notes,"excellent quotes and stories, NASA, Carl and Louis Stokes, Civil Rights, racism, Central State University, Kappa Alpha Si"
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0,"introduction and background, including specific work experience and family information"
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2,getting a job at NASA
3,ground-breaking work as a graduate intern
4,"moving to cleveland in 1965: ""several of my classmates were recruited to teach here"""
5,Carl Stokes' mayoral campaign; Kappa Alpha Si (african-american fraternity)
6,"Louis Stokes ""was a second choice [for congress]…. Carl was the magnet"""
7,moving around greater cleveland
8,"Stokes brothers and the Hough Riots, personal recollections"
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10,"racism at NASA, including intervention by Louis Stokes"
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12,Mr. Earl was first african-american supervisor at NASA
13,management training manual contained racist jokes
14,Louis Stokes brings political pressure to NASA's Equal Opportunity Committee
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16,income gap and job evaluation gap
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19,the reason that NASA is still [in cleveland] has a lot to do with louis stokes
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21,"story about white employees blocking african-american promotions, 1987-88"
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24,co-workers protest on behalf of Mr. Earl and other african-american employees
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26,congressman stokes… and the black employees kept the heat on
27,I took that nothing job… [and created] the best health program in the federal gov't.
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29,threatening phone calls
30,[Stokes'] influence in washington is what made things turn around here [at NASA]
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32,Kappa Alpha Si
33,that's how I got connected to the people I know here [including Louis Stokes]
34,work at Cleveland State University's Nance College of Business Administration
35,other experience in higher education
36,finding an appropriate department which had not received grant funding from NASA
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38,[37:50] working with politicians as NASA Research Center Director
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40,"Central State University, financial and administrative problems"
41,plan for restructuring
42,"I resigned before my term was up, out of righteous indignation"
43,funding for historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs
44,ongoing problems at Central State
45,"Louis Stokes; measuring a society ""by the people that they honor"""
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48,we will recognize when true equality of opportunity has arrived when we see mediocre people of color and mediocre females in true policy-making positions
49,the beauty of the stokes brothers is that they formed a coalition of people with substance [regardless of race or gender]
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