Interview 3 with Junifer Hall (Congresswoman Katie Hall)

Junifer Hall, the daughter of Representative Katie Hall, details her mother's move to Gary, Indiana and her work as a substitute teacher and eventual work as a social studies educator at Edison High School in Gary.

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Junifer Hall: A lot of people think, well, you were in Congress, you were in the Indiana General Assembly, but it was a long, difficult road before in the very early years. So after arriving in Gary, my mother was a political science major. She substituted for about two to three years in the Gary school system because at that time, you could not get a part-time, full-time job if you were pregnant or if you had small kids, so in the early 1960’s, I was born on March 12th, 1961, and she was still subbing, and in 1963-64, she was able to secure a position at Edison High School on Gary’s West Side teaching U.S. government and U.S. history, and during those days, Mrs. Hall, as the students fondly called her, was the second African American to teach social studies at Edison High School, which later became a junior high school.