Bonus Army Interview: Greene

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Title

Bonus Army Interview: Greene

Subject

Local History
Labor History
Great Depression
Protest Movements
World War I

Description

In this interview, Charles T. Greene recounts his experience as a 12-year-old bystander at the Bonus Army marches. Greene's firsthand account explores the Bonus Army camp life as its own society with its own laws, schools, city halls, and churches.Greene also discusses Jim Crow in DC and how segregation in other parts of the city stood apart from the integrated Bonus Army camps.

This is a transcript of an oral history produced during research for a documentary film "March of the Bonus Army".

Creator

Charles T. Greene

Source

Grant - 03-01-04

Date

2003

Rights

Copyright held jointly by the narrator, and the interviewer.
The Humanities Council of Washington, DC has the right to display and distribute materials funded by HCWDC grants.

Relation

March of the Bonus Army

Format

Document

Language

English

Type

Document

Identifier

02d.01.2003
644

Coverage

Washington, DC
Ward 7
Anacostia
Virginia

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Original Format

Transcript

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