Bettye Dunham on Interviewing Muscatatuck Residents about Work

Bettye Dunham on Interviewing Muscatatuck Residents about Work

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Muscatatuck State Developmental Center

“I wish I had recorded all the stories that we heard during those interviews,” stated Bettye Dunham on interviewing Muscatatuck State Hospital and Training Center residents for jobs at the Jennings Training Center in the 1970s. She talked to residents about life at the institution, their work experience, and what dreams they had for the future. Bettye found the residents wanted to work because they wanted to contribute to their own well-being and it gave them something meaningful to do. In this clip, she shares a few stories from those interviews. Bettye was interviewed in 2013.

Indiana Disability History Project

Center for Health Equity at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community and Indiana Governor's Council for People with Disabilities

2017-03-28

Bettye Dunham - Interviewee

Peggy Holtz - Videographer

Jane Harlan-Simmons - Interviewer

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“Bettye Dunham on Interviewing Muscatatuck Residents about Work,” YouTube video, 00:05:39 from an interview by the Indiana Disability History Project, posted by "Indiana Disability History" on March 28, 2017, https://youtu.be/siOMnqY9EZE.

Indiana, Jennings County

1970s