The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Kathleen Crosby

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The HistoryMakers Video Oral History with Kathleen Crosby

12/4/2002

https://www.thehistorymakers.org/biography/A2002.216

Elementary school teacher and school superintendent Kathleen Crosby (1925 - 2012 ) was an active desegregation advocate and the former superintendent of the Charlotte/Mecklenberg School District in North Carolina. Crosby was interviewed by The HistoryMakers on 12/4/2002, in Charlotte, North Carolina. This collection is comprised of the video footage of the interview.

Total Sessions: 1; Total Tapes: 5; Total Run Time: 02h 22m 56s

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Crosby, Kathleen, 1925-

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Educator Kathleen "Kat" Crosby was born on March 9, 1925, in Winnsboro, South Carolina, to Beatrice Tucker and W.A. Ross. She graduated from Johnson C. Smith University in Charlotte, North Carolina, with a B.A. in 1946 and later earned her M.A. from Bank Street College in New York City in 1970.Crosby began teaching in 1946 in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg School System. Aside from twenty years of experience as a classroom teacher, she served as an in-service specialist for early childhood education ...