- Collection:
- Cobb NAACP/Civil Rights Series
- Title:
- Interview with Winston Strickland, 2009 December 2
- Creator:
- Briggs, Stephen M.
- Contributor to Resource:
- Lutz, Jay
Watkins, Jeremy P.
Strickland, Wilson
Scott, Thomas Allan, 1943- - Publisher:
- Interview with Winston Strickland, 2009-12-02, Cobb NAACP/Civil Rights series, 2009-2010, Kennesaw State University Oral History Project, 1973- , KSU/45/05/001, Kennesaw State University Archives.
- Date of Original:
- 2009-12-02
- Subject:
- African American businesspeople--Georgia--Cobb County--Interviews
Cobb County (Ga.)--Politics and government--20th century
Oral histories
Transcripts
Strickland, Winston--Interviews - People:
- Strickland, Winston
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, Cobb County, Marietta, 33.9526, -84.54993
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Winston Strickland was born in Paulding County, Georgia, moving with his family to Bartow County in 1954. He graduated from Summer Hill High School. In 1961 he attended Brown Barber College on Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, Georgia. Strickland moved to Marietta, Georgia, and started the Eastside Barbershop, which later became Strick's Barbershop. He is also the owner of the restaurant, Strick's Grill. Mr. Strickland has been involved in entrepreneurial activities within the community, including the Future Development Corporation and the establishment of the First Southern Bank in Lithonia, Georgia. He has also served in various leadership positions on the National Board of Barbers.
Interviewed by Jay Lutz, Stephen Briggs, and Jeremy Watkins in Marietta, Georgia on December 2, 2009. - Local Identifier:
- ksu-45-05-001-07017
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/11360/258
- Language:
- eng
- Rights Holder:
- The digital reproductions on this site are provided for research consultation and scholarly purposes only. To request permission to publish, reproduce, publicly display, broadcast, or distribute this material in any format outside of fair use please contact the Kennesaw State University Archives.
- Holding Institution:
- Kennesaw State University. Department of Archives, Rare Books and Records Management
- Rights:
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