Laouida Glover · Voices of Illinois · University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library

Title: Laouida Glover
Date(s): 9/29/2018
Interviewee(s): Laouida Glover See all items with this value
Interviewer(s): Ellen Swain See all items with this value
Interviewer Position: Archivist for Student Life and Culture
Summary: Laouida Glover was born in Batesville, Mississippi. She was attracted to the University of Illinois through a Project 500 Newspaper flyer promising free tuition for college. Her mother, Thelma Thomas Glover Childress, was active in the Civil Rights Movement. She talks about the influences her upbringing and experiences at the University of Illinois had on her journey to becoming a lawyer.
Subject(s): 1972 graduating class See all items with this value; alumni See all items with this value; alumni reunions See all items with this value; black student association See all items with this value; black students See all items with this value; civil rights movement See all items with this value; illini union See all items with this value; liberal arts and sciences See all items with this value; project 500 See all items with this value; protests See all items with this value; student life See all items with this value
Related Resources: Chronology of Campus Protests, ca. 1972 (RS: 41/66/700); David Eisenman Papers, 1965-1974 (RS: 41/2/25); History of the University File, 1914-1991 (RS: 2/14/3); Joy Williamson-Lott Papers, 1997-2001 (RS: 41/30/178); Social Movements at Illinois: Project 500 and Black Power on Campus, 1965-1975; The University of Illinois in the Cold War Era 1945-1975: Project 500

Item sets: Project 500