Interview with Iola Douglas

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Title

Interview with Iola Douglas

Transcript

Rights Information

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Type

Moving Image

Creator

Douglas, Iola (Interviewee)
Barnes, Althemese (Interviewer)

Date

1996-02-01

Description

A fragment of an interview with Iola Douglas conducted by Althemese Barnes. This is the only section that survives of the original recording and its visual component was lost. The transcript provides a full summary of the interview and was published in the Leon County African American Education 1863-1968 publication on pages 133-135. The surviving audio covers paragraphs 5-7 in this publication, in which a picture of Iola was also published. In the interview, Iola talks about her life, becoming an educator, and facing the challenges of being a teacher and principal in an African American rural school during the period of segregation in Leon County.

Genre

Oral histories

Language

English

Place

Tallahassee (Fla.)

Duration

0:03:06

Identifier

JGRCMA-OHColl-0039

Topics

African American oral tradition
African American Storytelling
African American women--Education
African American educators
Leon County (Fla.)

Time Period

Jim Crow (1877-1964)

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