The Teaneck Oral History Project in 1980s was funded by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.  The goal is to develop an oral history archive.  The interviews tried to reflect the following areas: 

1. Teaneck is a community that had a transition from farm to suburban community; 
2. Compare public policy and its intention with the perceptions of impact on its citizenry; 
3. Trace the settlement and adjustment of diverse racial and ethnic groups into suburban America;
4. What public policies and personal attitudes created a conducive atmosphere for integration.

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Click on the Names to read these interviews: (total 106 interviews)

John Anderson	Joy Zacharia Appelbaum	Marilyn Arons	Milton Bell
Cleo Bonnemere	Thomas Boyd	Bruce R. Bramlett	Robin & John Brancato
Bernard Brooks	Wendell Browne	Frank Burr	Angelo Cafarelli
Edward F. Carpenter	Bernard R. Cheo	Bernard Confer	Charles Cox
Clarice R. Custer	Orra Davage	Ethel Brown Davis	James Delaney
A. Spencer Denham	Marie De Yampert	Julia Downs	Oscar Epstein
Winifred Farrar	Louis N. Feibel	Matthew Feldman (1)	Matthew Feldman (2)
Fay & Martin Geier	Ruth & Harold Glick	Mal Goode	Charles S. Grady
Elizabeth O. Greene	Jacqueline Guttman	Frank Hall	Morton & June Handler
Olive Hazel	Alice Offord Hecht	Saymour Herr	Milt Jackson
Janet Johnston	Lamar Jones	Rori Kanter	David S. Kapell
Mohammed B. Khan	Eleanor Kieliszek	Archie & Theodora Lacey	Ruth Landrine
George Larson	Mildred Larson	Carla Lerman	Paul Lerman
Rose Levitt	Marjorie Lightman	William Lindsay	Pamela Fitzpatrick Lorelli
Richard M. Machol	June Mendelkern	Frank McGlynn	Bob McGrath
Isaac G. McNatt	Brad Menkes	Dr. O. J. Miller	James D. Moore
William (Bill) Moore	Josephine Morten	Ida Mortenson	Judy Murphy
Alfred F. Muscari	Blanche Neal	Jo Paquin	Evelyn Parker
Edward L. Pearson, Jr.	Barbara Cady Peckham	Henry Penney	Lula & Melvin Powell
Rabbi Deborah Prinz	Edwin Reynolds	Wally Richardson	Richard Rodda
Fred Rola	Esther & Myor Rosen	Ruth & Sam Rosenblum	Dick & Viola Sadlier
Peter Sammartino	Isaura Santiago	Charlotte Scarbrough	Allan Schiller
Jacob Schneider	Lou Schwartz	Gertrude Schwimmer	Harvey Scribner
Phoebe Slade	Anita Smith	Phoebe Snow (Laub)	George Spath
Lucy Stamilla	Marcia Strean	Florence & Moses Sultzer	William & Maria Thurnauer
Joan Waite	Imogene Smith Washington	Robbie Wedeen	John H. White, Jr.
Mrs. Betty Wiker	John A. Williams	R. Carolyn Witherspoon	Sylvia Woods

 

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