Briscoe, Thomas F., 1910-1992
Person
Biography
From Detroit, Michigan, Thomas Briscoe played athletics at the St. Antoine Street Branch of the YMCA. He came to Western Michigan University in the 1930s to major in Physical Education, boxing, and play football.
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Oral history interview with J. Towner Smith, May 5, 1989
File — Box 4-OralHist, Object: 12
Oral history interview with John Lore, December 28, 1991
File — Box 3-OralHist, Object: 5
Dates:
December 28, 1991
Oral history interview with Tom Briscoe, May 11, 1989
File — Box 1-OralHist, Object: 7
Scope and Contents
Oral history interview with WMU alumnus Tom Briscoe, conducted by Lew Carlson on May 11, 1989 in Detroit, Michigan. Briscoe recollects his youth in Detroit, playing athletics at the St. Antoine Street Branch of the YMCA, and coming to Western Michigan University where he majored in Physical Education, boxed, and played football. He talks about what it was like to be a black college student athlete at WMU in the nineteen thirties. President Waldo is remembered, as well as various faculty and...
Dates:
May 11, 1989
Oral history interview with Tom Slaughter, May 4, 1989
File — Box 5-OralHist, Object: 9
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- Western Michigan University -- Football -- History 2
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- Coaches (Athletics) 1
- Coaching (Athletics) 1
- Discrimination in education -- Michigan -- Kalamazoo 1
- Discrimination in sports 1
- Track and field athletes 1
- Western Michigan University -- Administration 1
- Western Michigan University -- History 1
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