- Collection:
- Civil Rights in Black and Brown
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Dr. Morris Baker, July 31, 2016
- Creator:
- Baker, Morris
Wisely, Karen - Date of Original:
- 2016-07-31
- Subject:
- Persons
Ethnic groups
Civil rights - People:
- Baker, Morris
- Location:
- United States, Texas, Eastland County, Eastland, 32.40152, -98.81756
United States, Texas, Eastland County, Ranger, 32.46985, -98.67895 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
biographies (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Dr. Morris Baker was born in 1939 in Ranger, Texas, the son of a mechanic and a domestic worker. As a child in Ranger, Baker lived in a mixed neighborhood of Mexican Americans, poor whites, and African Americans. Although, Ranger had segregated black and brown neighborhoods as well. Baker attended a one-room, all-black school called Slaughter Ward Elementary up to 6th grade. From 6th to 10th grade, Baker had to be bused to Eastland, where education ended for African Americans before they could obtain a high school Diploma. Thus, when the Brown v. Board dissension came in, his parents simply signed him up for classes in the white Ranger High School. Baker was allowed to attend as long as he did not socialize with the white high school female students or attend many of the school’s social events. He graduated as the school’s first African American graduate in 1957. Other African Americans followed. Baker then graduated from Cisco College (A.A. 1959), McMurry University (B.A. in Biology 1963), Harvard University (M.Ed. 1970), The Ohio State University (Ph.D. in clinical psychology 1976). Baker has worked for the Peace Corps, public schools in Los Angeles, California and other cities, and has taught at McMurry University.
- Metadata URL:
- https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth982507/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 5 video recordings (1 hr., 15 min., 14 sec.) : sd., col.
- Original Collection:
- https://crbb.tcu.edu/interviews/interview-with-morris-baker
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Texas. Libraries
- Rights:
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