Abstract
In this 2005 interview, Dargan Burns, an African-American discusses his involvement in integration efforts in Cleveland from the 1950s to the present. Burns, born in South Carolina, fought in the Army in World War II, and was educated at the Hampton Institute and Boston University. At BU, he met and became a friend of Martin Luther King, Jr.. He was also a friend of J. Harold Brown, who was very active in Karamu House. In 1954, Burns joined the then white elitist Church of the Covenant as one of its first African-American members. Thereafter, he became active in the Church's affairs as well as in other efforts to integrate schools and other institutions in the University Circle area of Cleveland. In the interview, he also talks about some of the activist pastors of the Church of the Covenant in the Civil Rights era.
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Interviewee
Burns, Dargan (interviewee)
Interviewer
Kaczmarski, Lindsey (interviewer)
Project
History 400
Date
11-18-2005
Document Type
Oral History
Duration
63 minutes
Recommended Citation
"Dargan Burns Interview, November 2005" (2005). Cleveland Regional Oral History Collection. Interview 400012.
https://engagedscholarship.csuohio.edu/crohc000/51
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Comments
poor sound quality