Beverly Effort Biggs · Voices of Illinois · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

Title: Beverly Effort Biggs
Date(s): 5/22/2018
Interviewee(s): Beverly Effort Biggs See all items with this value
Interviewer(s): Anna Trammell See all items with this value
Summary: Born and raised in Chicago, Beverly Effort Biggs applied to Illinois at the encouragement of a high school teacher in 1961. Up until then, her educational environments had been majority - black. She came to Illinois at the young age of 16 and found a sense of belonging through the Black Greek system by joining Delta Sigma Theta her junior year. She remembers coming of age through the sorority and picketing with sisters in the Civil Rights Movement for fair housing.
Subject(s): 1965 graduating class See all items with this value; black greeks See all items with this value; civil rights movement See all items with this value; delta sigma theta See all items with this value; delta sigma theta alpha nu See all items with this value; sorority See all items with this value
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