/internal/media/dispatcher/72345/fullCandace Thompson Oral History11/07/2018Duration: 59 MinutesBorn digital (.m2ts file)Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza2018.001.01290Videotaped 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 in Dallas, TX on November 7, 2018 by Curator Stephen Fagin. Recorded jointly with C. Dealey Campbell, representing the Juanita Craft Interpretive Planning Committee. The interview is 59 minutes long.
The video attached to this record is an excerpt. The entire interview is available in our Reading Room to on-site researchers or by submitting a Rights & Reproductions Request Form.Oral Histories657400E-100E-1059328Oral history0E-10Videotaped 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.Oral historiesCommunity leadersRacismHousing & Urban DevelopmentDallasFloridaDallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)Community Leaders (OHC)At 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