Interview with Lynn Kilgore Hendy

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Title
Interview with Lynn Kilgore Hendy
Description
jah elyse sayers interviews Lynn Elda Kilgore Hendy (treasurer, Save Harlem Now!) in the Hendy home on August 12, 2025. Lynn Kilgore Hendy is a retired television advertising sales and account manager, and local television ratings expert. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Education from Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio. At age one, Lynn moved from North Carolina to New York City, when her father, the Reverend Dr. Thomas Kilgore, Jr., was called to pastor the Friendship Baptist Church in Harlem. Lynn was greatly influenced by her father’s strong advocacy for civil rights and African American history. Since 1986, she and her family have owned and lived in a Harlem limestone townhouse, built in 1901.
Date Created
08-12-2025
Language
English
Publisher
Place, Memory & Culture Incubator
Rights Holder
Hendy, Lynn Kilgore
Rights
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
Subject
Friendship Baptist Church
West Harlem
1963 March on Washington
Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)
Canaan Baptist Church
Save Harlem Now!
interviewee
Hendy, Lynn Kilgore
interviewer
sayers, jah elyse
knows
Kilgore, Thomas, Jr.
Kilgore, Jeanette
Walker, Wyatt T.
Bradley, Valerie Jo
Brady, Claudette
King, Yolanda
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
Rustin, Bayard
Lawrence, George
Hamilton, James
Randolph, A. Philip

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Commemoration of the 60th Anniversary of the 1963 March on Washington Moving Image