Oral history interview with Elizabeth Brown, June 17, 2005
Subtitle: interview U-0019, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
Contributors: Hill, Kimberly (Kimberly DeJoie), interviewer; Southern Oral History Program; University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project); University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
Edition: Electronic ed.
Publisher: University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill
Published: 2006
Place of publication: [Chapel Hill, N.C.]
Language: eng
Subjects: Interviews; Teachers; Catholic schools; Race relations; African Americans; Education; Minorities; School integration; Civil rights movements
Other titles: Interview U-0019, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007); Interview with Elizabeth Brown, June 17, 2005; Oral histories of the American South.
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 Brown 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.
Notes: 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.

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Original version: Southern Oral History Program Collection, (#4007), Series U, The long civil rights movement: the South since the 1960s, interview U-0019, Manuscripts Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Transcribed by L. Altizer. Original transcript: 50 p.

Funding from the Institute for Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this interview.

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