Elaine J. Coates oral history

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Elaine J. Coates oral history

2019

https://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/46085

This collection consists of one oral history conducted by University Archivist, Lae'l Hughes-Watkins, with Elaine J. Coates, the first female African American student at the University of Maryland. An audio recording of the interview as well as a transcript are available.

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eng, Latn

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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SNAC Resource ID: 11669326

University of Maryland (College Park, Md.). Libraries

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Coates, Elaine Johnson, 1937-

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Elaine J. Coates was born in Baltimore, Maryland, on September the 15th, 1937. She is the daughter of a railroad porter and a domestic worker. Coates grew up in Baltimore and went to the segregated Frederick Douglass High School. After the Supreme Court's Brown v. Board of Education ruling in 1954, Coates decided she wanted to go to the University of Maryland (UMD) in 1955. She became the university's first African-American female undergraduate to complete her degree in 1959. In 2019, Coates ...