- Title Information
- Title
- Lois Mae Black, class of 1956
- Title Information:
Alternative
(displayLabel="Pembroke title")
- Title
- Lois Mae Black, class of 1956
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Black, Lois Mae
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewee
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Smith, Juliette
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewer
- Type of Resource
- mixed material
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 1990-03-27
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Abstract
- In Part 1 of this interview, Lois Black describes coming to Pembroke College from
a working class Massachusetts town; her first experiences of Pembroke; living in the East
House; and the differences between private and public high school students. She then discusses
racism at Pembroke; the exclusion of women from the Brown Marching Band and Brown Sailing
Association; and her participation in student movements for desegregation and reformation of
gracious living regulations. In Part 2, she discusses Nancy Duke Lewis and Emily Lacey as
administrators and role models; dormitory regulations, including the exclusion of married
women; sex discrimination experienced in graduate classes; her marriage and its effect on her
academic career; the male/female relations at Brown; and the effect of the Korean War. The
interview concludes in Part 3 with her reflections on the Pembroke/Brown merger and the
political role of women's colleges.
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Class year")
- 1956
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Biographical note")
- Lois Mae Black
(formerly Henning) was born on November 16, 1931, in Boston, Massachussettes. After attending
Watertown Senior High School, she earned her AB in Biology from Brown, her Master's in Zoology
from Yale, and her PhD in Physiological Psychology from Cornell.
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- 1950s
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Administration
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Dormitories
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Pembroke-Brown Merger
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Race Relations
- Subject (null)
- Topic
- Sexism
- Subject (null)
- Topic
- Racial Segregation
- Genre (aat)
(authorityURI="http://vocab.getty.edy/aat/", valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595")
- oral histories (literary works)