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Interview no. | G-0276 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | G.3. Southern Women: Hope and Dignity: Older Black Women of the South |
Project description | Interviews, conducted between 1979 and 1981 by Emily Herring Wilson, for her book Hope and Dignity: Older Black Women of the South. Overall, Wilson interviewed more than forty older black women in North Carolina and selected twenty-seven for inclusion in the publication. The interviewees include gospel singers, midwives, teachers, ministers, college professors, civil rights organizers, artists, and musicians. |
Date | 13 January 1981 |
Interviewee | Saunders, Ernestine Burghes, 1903- |
Interviewee occupation | Professors |
Interviewee DOB | 1903 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Wilson, Emily Herring. |
Abstract | Ernestine Burghes Saunders is a retired college professor born in Selma, Alabama. She graduated from Fisk University and Middlebury College, also studying at the Sorbonne. In her interview, she recalls the lasting impact of her educated father, Reverend John R. Burghes. She further discusses her experiences in college and with racial identity both in Alabama and Paris. In discussing her career, she addresses her retirement from St. Augustine’s College in Raleigh after forty years as an educator there. This interview was conducted in part for the book "Hope and Dignity: Older Black women of the South" with text by Emily Herring Wilson, photographs by Susan Mullally, and foreword by Maya Angelou, published in 1983 by Temple University Press. |
Citation | Interview with Ernestine Burghes Saunders by Emily Herring Wilson, 13 January 1981 G-0276 in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
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Interview no. | G0276_Audio_1 |