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Reminiscences of Frances O. Grant : oral history, 1977.

Creator: Grant, Frances O. 1895-1982.
Project: Black women oral history project.
(see all project interviews)
Phys. Desc. :Transcript 55 pages
Location: Columbia Center for Oral History
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Biographical Note

Teacher

Scope and Contents

Family background and family life, childhood in Boston; Radcliffe College, 1913-1917: social life, effect of World War I on Radcliffe, studies; Black religion in Boston, ethnic and race prejudice in Boston, New York and New Jersey; teacher, Bordentown Manual Training and Industrial School, 1917-1955: Changes in size and curriculum, social and cultural life, reasons for closing; teacher, Fieldston School, 1956-1964; recollections of Sacco-Vanzetti case, red scare, World War I and World War II; travels

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Copyright by narrator and Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College

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