[Dr. Joyce M. Grant discusses her career as a teacher, civil rights activist, community organizer, school administrator, and professor in the College of Education at Michigan State University].
Grant grew up in Boston and graduated from Boston State College. Grant says she was denied a teaching position in the Boston Public schools due to her race, but was later made Deputy Superintendent for Boston schools after earning her doctorate from Harvard. Grant talks about her work with Episcopal...
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| Language: | English |
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[2009]
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MSU: Gift of the MSU Faculty Emeriti Association. |
| Physical Description: | 1 electronic audio file (56 min., 28 sec.) : digital, WAV, MP3 files. |
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Grant grew up in Boston and graduated from Boston State College. Grant says she was denied a teaching position in the Boston Public schools due to her race, but was later made Deputy Superintendent for Boston schools after earning her doctorate from Harvard. Grant talks about her work with Episcopal priest James P. Breeden on civil rights issues and with Jonathan Kozol in the Community Schools movement. She came to the Michigan Partnership for New Education in 1991. |
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| Call Number: | Voice 15673 |
| Playing Time: | 00:56:28 |
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Interviewee, Joyce M. Grant ; interviewer, Pauline Adams. |
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Recorded on Mar. 19, 2009, as part of the Michigan State University Faculty Emeriti Association Oral History Project. |