- Collection:
- Civil Rights in Black and Brown
- Title:
- Oral History Interview with Mary Tolbert, July 22, 2016
- Creator:
- Howard, Jasmine
Tolbert, Mary - Date of Original:
- 2016-07-22
- Subject:
- Persons
Ethnic groups
Civil rights - People:
- Tolbert, Mary
- Location:
- United States, Texas, Montgomery County, Conroe, 30.31188, -95.45605
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
biographies (literary works)
interviews - Type:
- MovingImage
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Mrs. Tolbert was born in 1943 in Cleveland. Tolbert grew up in Houston until she moved to Conroe in the 4th grade. Tolbert attended school in Bordersville while living in Houston. In Bordersville the neighborhood was integrated with a Mexican American and African American population. Tolbert graduated from Booker T. Washington in Conroe. She began working for law enforcement in 1984 after a few years of attempting. Tolbert experienced and witnessed explicit discrimination, racism, and sexism while working as a Deputy Sheriff in Montgomery County. Tolbert currently mentors young girls.
- Metadata URL:
- https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth983084/
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 8 video recordings (2 hr., 2 min., 49 sec.) : sd., col.
- Original Collection:
- https://crbb.tcu.edu/interviews/interview-with-mary-tolbert
- Contributing Institution:
- University of North Texas. Libraries
- Rights:
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