Candace Thompson Oral History
Object number2018.001.0129
Date11/07/2018
ClassificationsOral Histories
Oral history interview subject
Candace Thompson
Oral history interviewer
Stephen Fagin
ObjectOral history
Credit LineOral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza
MediumBorn digital (.m2ts file)
DimensionsDuration: 59 Minutes
DescriptionVideotaped oral history interview with Candace Thompson. An award-winning community activist and former administrator with the Dallas Housing Crisis Center, Thompson served in AmeriCorps in Florida. She experienced racism and prejudice attending schools in the Dallas area in the 1980s and 1990s.
Interview conducted at The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza on November 7, 2018 by Stephen Fagin and C. Dealey Campbell. The interview is fifty-nine minutes long.
Curatorial CommentaryAt the time this interview was recorded, Ms. Thompson was community outreach manager for Baylor Scott & White Health in Dallas. Prior to that, she was the director of community outreach at Jubilee Park and Community Center in Dallas. In 2018, she was a recipient of the Catalyst Award during the Juanita Craft Humanitarian Awards, hosted by the State Fair of Texas and the Juanita Craft Civil Rights House. This oral history was one in a series of joint interviews conducted by The Sixth Floor Museum in partnership with the Juanita Craft Civil Rights House and Steering Committee. -- Stephen Fagin, Curator
