230 North President Avenue • Lancaster, Pennsylvania 17603-3125 717.392.4633 • www.LancasterHistory.org Lancaster County Historical Society Oral History Project Interviewee: Emanuel (Max) Peters Interviewer: Beverly Newton Date Recorded: July 9, 2004 Transcriber: Bev Newton Date Transcribed: July

black history celebration?” it was called. And um, and-and Bruce Keller worked well with us during that time as well. He-he um, he would uh always uh do a special um…display on African Americans. L a n c a s t e r H i s t o r y �L: Now he was in the English department as well? J: He was in the English

Lancaster County Historical Society African-American Veterans Oral History Project Interviewer: Carole LeFever Interviewee: Wilkerson, Ruby and Spencer Location: Home of the Wilkersons Subject: Military experiences Date of Interview: February 13, 2006 Transcription Date: February 23, 2009

: Now the first thing that occurs to me is the fact that um…there was apparently a white and a black, an African American Legion. Now do you want to comment a little bit about that? You were saying that in this time right after the World War II there were a number that were springing up. B: Yes, the, at

Lancaster County Historical Society African-American Veterans Oral History Project Interviewer: Carole LeFever Interviewee: Nelson Polite Location: Home of Nelson Polite Subject: American Legion Post 780 Date of Interview: October 19, 2006 Transcription Date: January 23, 2009 Transcriber: Miles