- Collection:
- Southern Journey Oral History Collection
- Title:
- Georgia - Albany: Juanita Sander Cribb Interviewee
- Contributor to Resource:
- Dent, Thomas C.
- Date of Original:
- 1991-07-12
- Subject:
- African Americans
Civil rights demonstrations
Civil rights
Organization
Race relations
Economics
Education - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Dougherty County, Albany, 31.57851, -84.15574
- Medium:
- sound recordings
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Tom Dent interviews Juanita Sander Cribb in Albany, Georgia. Dent explains the project and what he hopes to accomplish. Cribb discusses her involvement in the movement in Winston-Salem, North Carolina when she was a teenager. She recalls the case of Joann Little, who killed a jailer who raped her. She expresses her concerns about the continual reclassification of the community. Dent talks about his experience referring to himself as an African American while he was in Africa, where he received a positive response. Dent sees the changes as a search for identity. He talks about the White population in New Orleans identifying ethnically. Cribb continues to talk about her experience with the movement in Winston-Salem, and her mother's work as a community activist. She grew up in the projects on welfare, but did not know until later that others viewed her options as limited; her mother told her she could do whatever she wanted to do. Cribb married and she and her husband took turns going to school. She studied broadcasting and the performing arts, and worked as an investigative reporter in Winston-Salem. She covered stories about the Ku Klux Klan activity there. She moved to Albany when her husband's job with Procter & Gamble transferred him there. She talks about the culture shock she felt moving to Albany after living in North Carolina and Boston. They were experiencing a "late birth" of the civil rights movement when she arrived. The culture is dictated by the money in Albany. She discusses the "plantation mentality" in Albany, where people still live and work on plantations, even while attending college. She talks about a politician's upcoming hearing, and the politics in Albany. She expects the money to leave the county to Lee County when the power shifts. She discusses the economy of Albany, and compares prices to those in Atlanta. Albany ranks high on the lists of many social problems (education, health, etc.). They discuss the lack of high schools in the city. Cribb thinks that if they "stand fast" on all the other issues facing the Black community, education will improve too. They talk about Clarence Thomas as a pawn.
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane:53893
- Contributing Institution:
- Amistad Research Center
- Rights:
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