- Collection:
- Butler Center for Arkansas Studies Audio Collection
- Title:
- Jo Blatti interview with Sybil Jordan Hampton
- Creator:
- Hampton, Sybil Jordan
- Contributor to Resource:
- Blatti, Jo
- Publisher:
- Little Rock, Ark. : University of Arkansas at Little Rock Center for Arkansas History and Culture
- Date of Original:
- 2012-02-03
- Subject:
- Women--Arkansas
Segregation in education--Arkansas--Little Rock
Segregation--Arkansas--Little Rock - Location:
- United States, Arkansas, 34.75037, -92.50044
- Medium:
- files (digital files)
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Jo Blatti interviews Sybil Jordan Hampton, a retired foundation executive and active community volunteer, about her family and early life in Little Rock, the influence of her maternal grandfather and Southeast Arkansas relatives, and her church background. She discusses her experience integrating Central High School, and her education at Earlham College (Richmond, Indiana), University of Chicago, and Columbia University. She also discusses her college-educated parents as role models, her family struggles regarding her mother’s car and education, and her family-operated grocery store. She reflects on the Broadway Bridge project as example of public feedback process, the philanthropic model offered by Winthrop Rockefeller, and her activities as president of the Rockefeller Foundation. She concludes the interview by returning to the subject of Little Rock school integration in 1957-58 and discusses her intentional journey to philanthropy.
- Metadata URL:
- http://arstudies.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p1532coll1/id/13049
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Oral History collection, 1973-2001 (UALR.ORH)
First Person Plural - Contributing Institution:
- Butler Center for Arkansas Studies
- Rights:
-
