Interview with Lettie Jackson
Item
Title
Interview with Lettie Jackson
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Type
Moving Image
Creator
Barnes, Althemese (Interviewer)
Jackson, Lettie (Interviewee)
Date
1997-02
Description
Note: Original video file has been edited for clarity. This is an interview with Lettie Jackson, one of the pioneer educators of African American rural schools in Leon County, Florida. She talks about her time as a teacher, the schools she worked in, and her memories living on the Sunny Hill Plantation during the Jim Crow era.
Genre
Oral histories
Language
English
Place
Tallahassee (Fla.)
Duration
0:10:06
Identifier
JGRCMA-OHColl-0006
Topics
African American Storytelling
African American oral tradition
African American Social Interaction
African American women educators
Community Interactions
African American students
African American Customs
Leon County (Fla.)
African American Historical Neighborhoods est. before 1930
One-room schoolhouses
Segregation in education
Time Period
Jim Crow (1877-1964)