Recollections of a singing shipbuilder : oral history transcript / Lewis Van Hook
Creator
Van Hook, Lewis, Interviewee
Contributor
Van Hook, Lewis, Interviewee Dunning, Judith K, Interviewer
Date Created and/or Issued
1992
Publication Information
The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-6000; http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/ Berkeley, Calif : Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office
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Description
Van Hook discusses his Arkansas childhood; move to Richmond, 1943; Kaiser Shipyard worker, 1943-1945; Singing Shipbuilders gospel quartet, 1943-1946; postwar changes in Richmond; advice to younger generations Part of the Berkeley/Richmond Community Oral History Collection from the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley This manuscript is made available for research purposes. Requests for permission to quote for publication should be addressed to the Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, 486 Library, University of California, Berkeley 94720
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