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Beatrice Coleman, Class of 1925: interview Side 1

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Year:: 2006
Contributor:: Coleman, Beatrice (interviewee); Lancaster, Jane (interviewer)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Subject:: Blacks; Greek letter societies; Segregation in higher education; Providence (R.I.)
Extent:: 1 mp3; 45:09

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Abstract:: Interview with Beatrice Coleman, conducted by Jane Lancaster on May 24, 2006. Coleman, class of 1925, was 102 years old at the time of the interview. She discusses her career as a teacher in normal schools in North Carolina and Pennsylvania; the African American communities in Providence and at Brown and Pembroke in the early twentieth century; and her sorority, Alpha Kappa Alpha.

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"Beatrice Coleman, Class of 1925: interview Side 1 " (2006). Pembroke Center Oral History Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:224415/

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Pembroke Center Oral History Collection

This collection contains oral history interviews with alumnae of Brown University, which admitted its first women students in 1891. The Women's College at Brown was renamed Pembroke College in 1928, and in 1971, Pembroke College merged with the Men's College …
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