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Title
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Interview with Lynn Kilgore Hendy
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Description
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jah elyse sayers interviews Lynn Elda Kilgore Hendy (treasurer, Save Harlem Now!) in the Hendy home on August 12, 2025. Lynn Kilgore Hendy is a retired television advertising sales and account manager, and local television ratings expert. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Education from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. At age one, Lynn moved from North Carolina to New York City, when her father, the Reverend Dr. Thomas Kilgore, Jr., was called to pastor the Friendship Baptist Church in Harlem. Lynn was greatly influenced by her father’s strong advocacy for civil rights and African American history. Since 1986, she and her family have owned and lived in a Harlem limestone townhouse, built in 1901.
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Date Created
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08-12-2025
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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Place, Memory & Culture Incubator
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Rights Holder
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Hendy, Lynn Kilgore
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Rights
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CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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Subject
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Friendship Baptist Church
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West Harlem
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1963 March on Washington
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Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
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Canaan Baptist Church
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Save Harlem Now!
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interviewee
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Hendy, Lynn Kilgore
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interviewer
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sayers, jah elyse
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knows
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Kilgore, Thomas, Jr.
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Kilgore, Jeanette
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Walker, Wyatt T.
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Bradley, Valerie Jo
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Brady, Claudette
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King, Yolanda
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King, Martin Luther, Jr.
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Rustin, Bayard
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Lawrence, George
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Hamilton, James
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Randolph, A. Philip
