Storyteller: Campbell, Gayle (Rippy)

Interviewer: Bertalot, Lorretta

Language: English

Initiative: Tulsans Talk

Description: Gail Campbell's great great grandfather Redbird Sixkiller came on the Trail of Tears in 1836 to the Westville area. Gail grew up in Brookside and remembers the businesses there. She retired as a Deaf Education teacher and volunteers as an actress in The Drunkard as well as other places.

Subjects: Trail of Tears, Civil War bushwackers, Eliot Elementary, Brookside businesses--Webers, Penningtons, Milk Vending Machines, Riches Furniture, Suburban Shopping Centers, Edison High School, Segregation, Kress', Lewis Meyer Bookstore, parks, Utica Square, Teacher of deaf children, The Drunkard

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