Andrew Hagopian Oral History Interview

Armenian, Armenian Genocide, Granite City, immigration, Lincoln Place, World War II

Hagopian, Andrew, “Andrew Hagopian Oral History Interview,” Madison Historical, accessed December 26, 2024, https://madison-historical.siue.edu/archive/items/show/855.

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This oral history interview with Andrew Hagopian was part of oral histories conducted in the fall 2001 semester of History 447: Oral History.

Andrew Hagopian was born in 1923 to immigrant parents from Armenia. In this interview, he talks about his family history, his experience on the 1940 Granite City basketball state champion team, the diversity of the Lincon Place community, and his activism in lobbying the United States government to recognize the Armenian Genocide.

• Louisa H. Bowen University Archives and Special Collections

Fall 2001 Granite City Oral History Interviews

• Lincoln Place
• Granite City

Hagopian, Andrew

November 21, 2001

• Granite City
• Lincoln Place

English

• Oral History

• mp3
• pdf

• 00:27:14

Olliges, Rance

Hagopian, Andrew

Lincoln Place, Granite City, Illinois

248 kbit/s

• Lincoln Place
• Granite City, Illinois

• Hagopian_Andrew-0-001
• Original archive accession number: A02:43