Description
Marion McCollum was born in Poughkeepsie, New York. She began working for the FBI near the end of 1942. After the war, she bought a home in Oakland and sent her daughter to Holy Name University. In this interview, McCollum discusses migration to California, her reaction to Pearl Harbor, wartime patriotism, religion, and postwar life. She speaks at length about urban development in Richmond and Oakland, and the changes in population demographics that came with it.