Interviewer
Aleesha Young
Interview Date
7-29-2005
Format
1 pdf file, 1 jpg photo
Description
Edward Stockton reflects on his time as a resident of Bloomfield, including his employment by United Technologies, and rise in the local Democratic party and election as mayor in 1969, 1971, and 1973. As a white man, he was interested in living in a town that had diversity in both the religious and racial aspect. Stockton recalls his children’s experiences attending Bloomfield public schools and believes that diversity within the schools they attended prepared them for the diversity they would experience out in the “real world.” Stockton recalls the voluntary busing situation and felt it would solve racial imbalance of schools, but was unsuccessful because it could not get enough people to make a difference.
Series
Bloomfield, CT 2005
Recommended Citation
Stockton, Edward. Oral history interview by Aleesha Young. Cities, Suburbs, and Schools Project at Trinity College, July 29, 2005. Downloaded from Trinity College Digital Repository (https://digitalrepository.trincoll.edu/cssp_ohistory/4)
Comments
Submitted as part of the OnTheLine web-book by Jack Dougherty and colleagues (http://ontheline.trincoll.edu). Download the transcript via the button to the upper right; other files appear at the bottom of this page.