Interview with Irene Elizabeth Stephens Hunt [electronic resource] 2004 February 13 / interviewer: Christina Wright ; transcriber: Bonnie Tiernan.

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Hunt, Irene Elizabeth Stephens, 1910-2008. Interview with Irene Elizabeth Stephens Hunt [electronic resource] 2004 February 13 / interviewer: Christina Wright ; transcriber: Bonnie Tiernan.

Interview with Irene Elizabeth Stephens Hunt [electronic resource] 2004 February 13 / interviewer: Christina Wright ; transcriber: Bonnie Tiernan.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/566109939

Ms Hunt begins the interview by describing growing up in Gaffney, S.C. After the death of her father, she raised her younger brothers and sisters, sending them to a boarding school to help with their education. Ms Hunt expresses her enjoyment of school and her desire to be a teacher. She wanted the same for her siblings. Ms Hunt describes her time teaching at Torrence Lytle School in Charlotte, N.C. and her time as teacher and principal at Rockwell School. She outlines how she handled problems with white students who attended a nearby school. She details a typical day at an African American school in the 1940s and 1950s. She admits that her greatest joy was seeing children learn. Ms Hunt assures the interviewer that discipline was not a problem in school and that the parents were active. She states that there were good parent-teacher relationships. Asked about the Rosenwald designation for her school, Ms Hunt does not seem to know what the term meant. She was also not aware of any effect of Brown v the Board of Education.

University of North Carolina, Charlotte, J. Murrey Atkins Library