Norm Bryant: Founder Flint African-American Hall of Fame

Radio Free Flint Podcast

English - March 11, 2021 11:00 - 39 minutes - 36.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 12 ratings
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A wonderful interview with Norman Bryant, former President of Flint Schools. At 85, he shares some history of Flint Schools, Flint high school athletics and Flint history. Norm is the founder of the Flint African American Sports Hall of Fame. This interview is a wonderful oral history of African American life in a northern US industrial community in the 1950's, 1960's and 1970's. In the interview Norm Bryant discusses the people and activity around Flint, Michigan becoming the first U.S. major city to adopt an Open Housing Ordinance. Flint also became the first major city in America to have an African American Mayor, Floyd J. McCree.

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