Veronica Robinson interview, 29 September 2018
Abstract
In this interview conducted as part of a Literary Cleveland storytelling project, Veronica Robinson talks about her parents' move from Thomaston, Georgia, to Cleveland, where her father served in the military and her mother worked as a welder. Robinson was born in 1959 in Cleveland and grew up in the Cedar-Central neighborhood. She discusses St. James A.M.E. Church, the Hiram House camp, East Tech High School, and the Cleveland-based R&B group the O'Jays. Much of the interview focuses on her railroad jobs. Robinson started as a brakeman before becoming a conductor and then an engineer in only two years. She discusses the Collinwood Yards, describes the train routes between Cleveland and Buffalo and Columbus, being a woman in what many regarded as a man's job.
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This series comprises a wide range of interviews conducted by Center staff since 2005 in support of the Euclid Corridor History Project, Neighborhood Connections, and a number of mostly short-term collaborations. It also includes a number of standalone interviews by Center staff.