Interview: Crawley, Lea, 1994
Item
- Resource class
- Interview
- Title
- Interview: Crawley, Lea, 1994
- Type
- Interview
- Interviewee
- Crawley, Lea
- Birth Year
- 1914
- Birth Place
- Danville, Virginia
- Interviewer
- Chadwick, Bruce
- Goodwin, Patrick
- Location Created
- Jersey City, New Jersey
- Date Created
- 3 November 1994
- Abstract
- 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.
- Collection
- Rutgers Oral History Archives
- Repository
- Rutgers Oral History Archives (ROHA) at Rutgers University–New Brunswick
- Rights
- Permission to quote from this transcript must be obtained from the Rutgers Oral History Archives.
- Place Mentioned
- Danville, Virginia
- Newark, New Jersey
- Jersey City, New Jersey
- Camp Kilmer, Piscataway, New Jersey
- Verona, New Jersey
- Belleville, New Jersey
- Identifier
- ROHA-Crawley
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