Barbara Anderson interview, 23 July 2025

In this 2025 interview, Barbara Anderson discusses her early life growing up in a foster family on E. 151st and Bartlett in the 1950s. She describes how growing up in a foster family and in a neighborhood with many ethnicities prepared her for her organizing work later in life. She details being the first Black family to move into the Slavic Village neighborhood in the 1980s and the racism and hostility that her family experienced. She describes how losing her house due to predatory lending practices inspired her to advocate for fair housing practices, which eventually led her to the East Side Organizing Project (ESOP), where she acted as treasurer and president. Finally, she discusses her work for her own nonprofit, Another Chance of Ohio and leaves a message for future generations.