Reminiscences of Emily Moore : oral history, 2002.

Biographical Note

Teacher, Stuyvesant High School.

Scope and Contents

Born in New Jersey, raised in New Jersey and Connecticut; education: Andover Academy, Princeton University, poetry studies, thesis work; career: student teaching in New Jersey, poetry department at the New Yorker, teacher at Stuyvesant High School; September 11th: arrival to school, evacuation, travel north with students, travel home; post-9/11: impact on students and teachers, race relations; response of Stuyvesant High School: reinstatement of Pledge of Allegiance, teacher support; personal reflection: return to teaching after 9/11, poetry taught in class, fear.

Subjects

• Bellamy, Francis.--Pledge of Allegiance to the Flag.
• High school teachers--New York (State)--New York--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Moore, Emily, 1977---Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001--Personal narratives.
• September 11 Terrorist Attacks, 2001.
• Stuyvesant High School (New York, N.Y.)--Employees--Interviews.
• Zane, Sharon, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr

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