[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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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: Michigan State University. Faculty Emeriti Association. Oral History Project
Other Authors: Grant, Joyce M. (Interviewee)
Adams, Pauline (Interviewer)
Language:English
Published: [2009]
Subjects:
Grant, Joyce M. > Interviews.
Grant, Joyce M. > Political activity.
Breeden, James P. > (James Pleasant)
Kozol, Jonathan.
Michigan State University > Faculty > Interviews.
Boston Public Schools.
Michigan Partnership for New Education.
Educational attainment.
Discrimination in employment > Massachusetts > Boston.
Community schools > United States.
Oral histories.
Genre:
Interviews.
Oral histories.
Online Access:
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Local Note:
MSU: Gift of the MSU Faculty Emeriti Association.
Physical Description:1 electronic audio file (56 min., 28 sec.) : digital, WAV, MP3 files.
Format: Audio Software

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