Title

Oral History Interview on Sheff vs. O'Neill (with video)

Interviewee

Wildaliz Bermudez
Eva Bermudez

Interviewer

Anique Thompson

Interview Date

6-30-2011

Format

1 pdf file, 1 video file

Description

Wildaliz and Eva Bermudez (born 1982 and 1987, respectively) recall their earliest memories of activism for school integration in Greater Hartford through their involvement as young plaintiffs (with their brother, Pedro) in the 1989 Sheff v O’Neill lawsuit, and how the case shaped their lives as politically active adults today. The sisters describe why their parents (Pedro and Carmen Wilda Bermudez) supported the integration movement, and reflect on their personal experiences as Puerto Rican youth growing up in Hartford's South End neighborhoods, attending Hartford Public Schools and bilingual education programs, and eventually (for Eva) an interdistrict magnet school.

Comments

Submitted as part of the OnTheLine web-book by Jack Dougherty and colleagues (http://ontheline.trincoll.edu).

Series

Sheff Vs. O'Neill

Recommended Citation

Bermudez, Wildaliz and Eva. Oral history interview on Sheff v. O'Neill school desegregation by Anique Thompson for the Cities, Suburbs, and Schools Project, June 30, 2011. Available from the Trinity College Digital Repository, Hartford Connecticut (http://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cssp/).

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