Interview with Mary Tachau, Eric Tachau, November 11, 1989

Project: Anne Braden Oral History Project

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Eric Tachau was vice president of the Louisville Fire and Marine Company who in 1954 he insured a house in a white neighborhood, Shively, for an African American couple, Andrew and Charlotte Wade, that was soon after bombed. In this interview, Eric Tachau discusses his motivation for insuring the house and gives reasons for the bombing that are not related to the Brown v. Board of Education decision. He also speaks about how the community labeled Anne and Carl Braden as communists after the Wade incident. Mary K. Tachau was a history professor at University of Louisville and she discusses being on the Kentucky Civil Liberties Union board, school desegregation, and Anne Braden's views about school desegregation in Jefferson County.

Interview Accession

2010oh089_ab026

Interviewee Name

Mary Tachau

Eric Tachau

Interviewer Name

Catherine Fosl

Interview Date

1989-11-11

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Tachau, Mary Interview by Catherine Fosl. 11 Nov. 1989. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Tachau, M. (1989, November 11). Interview by C. Fosl. Anne Braden Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.

Tachau, Mary, interview by Catherine Fosl. November 11, 1989, Anne Braden Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.





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