Overcoming barriers in education : an interview conducted by Gabrielle Morris in 1984 and 1985. 1984-1985

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Overcoming barriers in education : an interview conducted by Gabrielle Morris in 1984 and 1985. 1984-1985

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Oral history interview (transcript) with teacher and administrator Ida Louise Jackson speaking of her background, family and early education as an african american in Mississippi and Louisiana; her experiences as an undergraduate at the University of California; founding of Alpha Kappa Alpha, in 1921 - the first sorority for black women in the western United States; and her teaching experiences in Oakland, CA.

1 volume; (.25 linear ft.)

eng,

Sophia Smith Collection

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Jackson, Ida Louise, 1902-

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Jackson was the first black woman to teach in the public schools of Oakland, Calif., and one of the founders of the Rho chapter of Alpha Kappa Alpha, the first black sorority on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley. From the description of Overcoming barriers in education. (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 232008299 Ida Louise Jackson was born on 12 Oct 1902 in Vicksburg, Mississippi. She earned a B.A. from the University of California at Berkeley i...

Wilson, Garff B.

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Morris, Gabrielle S.

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Bancroft Library. Regional Oral History Office

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According to the University of California, Berkeley Bancroft Library website: "The Regional Oral History Office (ROHO) is a research program of the University of California, Berkeley, working within The Bancroft Library. ROHO conducts, teaches, analyzes, and archives oral and video history documents in a broad variety of subject areas critical to the history of California and the United States." For more information regarding the ROHO and their work please consult their website: http://bancroft....