Interview with Janice and Gary Leavell

Description:	Interview with Janice Leavell, a member of the Jeffersonville (Ind.) NAACP, office administrator at West Broadway Church of Christ in Louisville, and a retired teacher who spent her career in Louisville grade schools; and Gary Leavell, one of the pioneers of Indiana’s Workforce One, a former president of the Jeffersonville (Ind.) NAACP, and member of First Trinity Missionary Baptist Church. The pair now run a restaurant together. The interview was conducted by Diane Stepro on March 01, 2022, as part of the Jeffersonville Township Public Library’s project on the impact of the COVID pandemic and protests on individual lives. The Leavells discuss how they first learned about COVID; their difficulties coping with the pandemic, how COVID impacted their extended families, including Janice Leavell’s 100-year-old mother; the Breonna Taylor protests in Louisville; their personal reactions to the shooting; their relationship to local police officials, what sources they rely upon for news; and his thoughts about the duties of the news media in providing information to the public.
Origin:	2022-03-01
Created By:	Leavell, Janice; Leavell, Gary; Stepro, Diane
Source:	http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16066coll12/id/1507
Collection:	Jeffersonville Township Public Library
Rights:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-NC/1.0/;
Subjects:	COVID-19 (Disease)—Clark County, Indiana—History Civil rights demonstrations—Kentucky—Louisville

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