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Oral History: Crawley, Lea, 1994

Title: Oral History: Crawley, Lea, 1994
Interviewee: Crawley, Lea
Birth Year: 1914
Birth Place: Virginia - Danville
Interviewer: Chadwick, Bruce; Goodwin, Patrick
Location of Interview: Jersey City, NJ
Date Created: 3 November 1994
Description: Mr. Crawley was born in Danville, Virginia in 1914. He attended Westmoreland High School in Virginia before attending Hampton Institute for three years and then attended West Virginia State with a major in agriculture. He served in a segregated Army quartermaster unit in the ETO during World War II. After the war, he used the GI Bill to study architectural drafting and opened his own business by the name of Burton & Crawley Contractors.
Transcript: https://oralhistory.rutgers.edu/interviewees/873-crawley-lea
Subject: Military; Business Owners; Construction and Decorating; Beyond Rutgers (non-affiliated)
Collection: Rutgers Oral History Archives (ROHA)
Repository: Special Collections and University Archives, Rutgers University Libraries
Rights: Permission to quote from this transcript must be obtained from the Rutgers Oral History Archives.
Identifier: ROHA-Crawley