Interview: Van Blake, Donald, 2007
Item
- Resource class
- Interview
- Title
- Interview: Van Blake, Donald, 2007
- Type
- Interview
- Interviewee
- Van Blake, Donald
- Birth Year
- 1921
- Birth Place
- Plainfield, New Jersey
- Interviewer
- Illingworth, Shaun
- Location Created
- New Brunswick, New Jersey
- Date Created
- 19 December 2007
- 15 January 2008
- Abstract
- Donald Van Blake was born in Plainfield, New Jersey, and during the Second World War served in the "Red Ball Express" as a truck driver. After the war, he was active in the Civil Rights Movement and went on to have a career in transportation.
- 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.
- Subject
- Military
- Civil Rights Movement
- Construction and Decorating
- Drivers
- Beyond Rutgers (non-affiliated)
- Activism and Movements
- Identifier
- ROHA-VanBlake
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