Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Evangeline Hall
Evangeline Hall
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| Other authors / contributors: | Hall, Evangeline, 1915-2013, interviewee.
Adams, Samuel, interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Samuel Adams, interviewer.
Recorded Bradenton, Florida 2002 April 24.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Civil rights activist Evangeline Hall was born in 1915 in DeLand, Florida. Growing up, Hall attended segregated schools. She enrolled in Bethune-Cookman College, and in her thirties, moved to Bradenton, Florida. Given the incidents of racial discrimination in Bradenton, Hall and four other activists formed the biracial committee with the support of Mayor A. Sterling Hall. Mayor Hall worked to end some of Bradenton's Jim Crow laws and swore that no lynching would occur during his administration. Hall spent forty-seven years in the insurance industry working for Central Life Insurance and was the company's first female African American manager. She was the first black woman to serve as president of the local Democratic Party. As a member of the League of Women Voters, Hall registered people to vote for many years. Mayor Hall awarded her the key to the city in recognition of her accomplishments. Hall passed away on July 30, 2013 at age 97.
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