Growing Up In Manchester

 

 

 

Name: John Suber
Title: Black and White Confusion

Interviewers:
Kenneth Andrew Harriston
Summary: John Suber was born in Manchester in 1957. He lives now in a house that sits on the property that his father and mother bought on Liverpool Street in 1951. They were the first black family to own property on Liverpool Street. He remembers very large homes from his childhood with high ceiling and rooms that were 25 feet long. He also remembers a period of racial unrest during the 1960s following the assassination of Martin Luther King, jr.