In the first part of the interview, Anna discusses early life on her family’s farm and the decision to attend Pembroke despite wanting to get married and become a nurse. Anna describes the courses she took in her two years at Pembroke and some of the formative people she met during that time. In the second part of the interview, Anna elucidates the Brown dress code and describes political events, life in Cuba, and her arrest.
Notes:
Class year: 1917
Biographical note: Anna Haas Morgan was born in Providence, RI but moved to Massachusetts at a young age. Engaged at the end of high school, and wishing to be married, Anna was persuaded by her mother to attend Pembroke for a few years before moving to Cuba with her husband. Upon leaving college, Anna slowly became involved with the Communist Party. She was eventually arrested and tried by the Supreme Court though the case had resolved itself by 1957. Anna continued her political protesting, but eventually resigned to a quieter life running a bookstore.
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 …
