| Title: |
Charles V. Main
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
Frederick Community College. Catoctin Center for Regional Studies
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| Collection: |
Frederick Community College Oral History Collection
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| Description: |
Charles V. Main was Frederick's Chief of Police from 1952 to 1976. Most of the interview focuses on race relations, desegregation, and his role in keeping the peace, including the period after Martin Luther King, Jr's assassination. Chief Main also briefly discusses his family background, career as a Maryland State trooper and involvement in the city's Little League program.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Speaker: |
Main, Charles V., 1910-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
22-Jan-1910
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Middletown, MD; Maryland; United States; North America
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| Speaker occupation: |
Chief of police
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| Document date: |
Undated
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| Interviewer: |
Powell, Michael; Thompson, Bruce A.
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| Historical events discussed: |
U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965; U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1966-
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| Locations discussed: |
Frederick, MD; Maryland; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Civil rights demonstrations; Civil rights movements--United States; Civil rights workers--United States; Frederick, MD; Law enforcement--Maryland; Maryland; North America; Oral history; U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1954-1965; U.S. Civil Rights Movement, 1966-; United States
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| ASP release: |
2007-01
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| Document code: |
OHI0034046-37378
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