- Title Information
- Title
- Jeanette Dora Black, class of 1930
- Title Information:
Alternative
(displayLabel="Pembroke title")
- Title
- Jeanette Dora Black, class of 1930
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Black, Jeanette Dora
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewee
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Hurowitz, Naomi
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewer
- Type of Resource
- mixed material
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 1982-11-22
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- 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.
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Class year")
- 1930
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="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.
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- 1930s
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Academics
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Administration
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Employment
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Great Depression
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- World War II
- Genre (aat)
(authorityURI="http://vocab.getty.edy/aat/", valueURI="http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300202595")
- oral histories (literary works)