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Oral History: Crawley, Lea, 1994
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Title
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Oral History: Crawley, Lea, 1994
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Interviewee
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Crawley, Lea
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Birth Year
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1914
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Birth Place
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Virginia - Danville
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Interviewer
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Chadwick, Bruce
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Goodwin, Patrick
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Location of Interview
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New Jersey - Jersey City
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Date Created
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3 November 1994
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Description
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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.
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Repository
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Rutgers Oral History Archives (ROHA) at Rutgers University–New Brunswick
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Rights
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Permission to quote from this transcript must be obtained from the Rutgers Oral History Archives.
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Identifier
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ROHA-Crawley