- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Elizabeth Brown, June 17, 2005
- Creator:
- Brown, Elizabeth, 1937-
- Contributor to Resource:
- Hill, Kimberly (Kimberly DeJoie)
Southern Oral History Program - Date of Original:
- 2005-06-17
- Subject:
- School integration--Alabama
Teachers--Alabama--Birmingham
Catholic schools--Alabama--Birmingham
Catholic schools--Alabama--History--20th century
Civil rights movements
Birmingham (Ala.)--Race relations--History--20th century
African Americans--Education--Alabama--Birmingham
Minorities--Education--Alabama--Birmingham
School integration--Alabama--Birmingham - People:
- Brown, Elizabeth, 1937-
- Location:
- United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
- Medium:
- transcripts
sound recordings
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Text
Sound - Format:
- text/html
text/xml
audio/mpeg - Description:
- Elizabeth Brown, a white teacher who taught at John Carroll High School in Birmingham, Alabama, describes desegregation and its legacies in her city. While Brooks offers few details of the desegregation process, and remembers the racism of some white students, she recalls a relatively smooth transition at her high school. Despite the success of desegregation, she worries that prejudice endures, whether in the form of classism, sexism, or homophobia.
The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. - Metadata URL:
- http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/U-0019/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- Title from menu page (viewed on Nov. 29, 2007).
Interview participants: Elizabeth Brown, interviewee; Kimberly Hill, interviewer.
Duration: 01:56:22.
This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digital library, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South.
Text encoded by Mike Millner. Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers. - Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
- Rights:
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