- Title Information
- Title
- Justine Tyrrell, class of 1943
- Title Information:
Alternative
(displayLabel="Pembroke title")
- Title
- Justine Tyrrell Priestly, class of 1943
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Tyrrell, Justine
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewee
- Name:
Personal
- Name Part
- Anton, Barbara J.
- Role
- Role Term:
Text (marcrelator)
- interviewer
- Type of Resource
- mixed material
- Origin Information
- Date Created
(keyDate="yes", encoding="w3cdtf")
- 1998-07-30
- Language
- Language Term:
Code (ISO639-2B)
- eng
- Abstract
- In this interview, Justine discusses her family's connections to the Brown community and how they affected her decision to attend; the campus-wide reactions and attitudes towards the events of World War II; her correspondence with soldiers abroad; her work with the Noyes Foundation; and her career in journalism including her job with The New York Amsterdam News. In Part 2, she describes her relationship with Malcolm X, racism in the South. She ends by briefly reviewing what life has been like since her retirement.
- Note:
biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Class year")
- 1943
- Note:
Biographical/historical
(displayLabel="Biographical note")
- Justine Tyrrell was born in Pawtucket, Rhode Island in 1921 and received an academic scholarship to join the Pembroke College class of 1943. Justine majored in English, and following graduation, became a cryptanalyst for the Army Security Agency in Washington, DC. In the 1950s, she served as Executive Director of the Jessie Smith Noyes Foundation, which gave educational grants to minority students. She became a reporter for The New York Amsterdam News in 1961, writing under the name Gertude Wilson. Her work is chronicled in By Gertrude Wilson: Dispatches of the 1960s from a White Writer in a Black World (Vineyard Stories.) She died on August 4, 2004, at the age of 83.
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- 1940s
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- City girls
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Family
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Employment
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Activism
- Subject (Local)
- Topic
- Race relations
- 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)