Jeanette Dora Black, class of 1930

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Year:: 1982
Contributor:: Black, Jeanette Dora (interviewee); Hurowitz, Naomi (interviewer)
Genre:: oral histories (literary works)
Subject:: 1930s; Academics; Administration; Employment; Great Depression; World War II

Abstract:: In this interview, Jeanette Black discusses her family; her education at Providence's Classical High School; reasons for attending college and for choosing Pembroke; her requirements and classes; her feelings about coeducation and the Pembroke administration, including Dean Morriss; working at the John Hay Library; and the effects of the stock market crash and World War II on Pembroke. She then describes her life after Brown, including her graduate studies at Radcliffe, working at the John Carter Brown Library, and ethnic, racial, and sexual discrimination she identified at Brown.
Notes:: Class year: 1930; Biographical note: Jeanette Dora Black graduated from Brown with an AB in Political Science in 1930 and received the Anne Crosby Emery Alumnae Felowship to continue her studies at Radcliffe College. She edited and produced the commentary for the two-volume Blathwayt Atlas of 17th-century English colonial maps published by Brown University Press. The John Carter Brown Library offers the Jeanette D. Black Memorial fellowship for research in cartography in her honor.

"Jeanette Dora Black, class of 1930" (1982). Pembroke Center Oral History Collection. Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library. https://repository.library.brown.edu/studio/item/bdr:577484/

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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