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Interview no. | G-0081 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | G.1. Southern Women: Individual Biographies |
Project description | Interviews, 1964-1991 (bulk 1970s), focusing on women's participation in movements for social change. Many deal with southern women active in reform movements between the 1910s women's suffrage movement and the 1960s feminist movement and explore the interaction between the private lives and public activities of women representing various social classes and races. Interviewees include women involved in labor and workers' education movements; African American and white women active in the civil rights movement; and women who, in addition to their contributions to these reform movements, also pursued professional careers. |
Date | March 27, 1985 |
Interviewee | Johnson, Jean. |
Interviewee occupation | Public relations personnel |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Gambee, Budd Leslie. |
Abstract | A former North Carolina school media specialist, Jean Johnson succeeded Mary Peacock Douglas as coordinator of media services for Wake County, North Carolina Public Schools. First experience of hearing Mary Peacock Douglas speak at a North Carolina Library Association conference; work at Olivia Rainey Public Library; work as a media specialist at Carroll Junior High School in Raleigh, NC; Douglas' effectiveness as a supervisor; Douglas' program of reading to children in the public schools each December; Johnson's experience taking over as coordinator of media services; Douglas' continued usefulness to Johnson as an advisor; Douglas' role in designing school libraries, especially the library in the Mary Peacock Douglas Elementary School; differences in the terms "librarian" and "media specialist"; Douglas' illness and death in 1970; a poem written by Johnson about Douglas; comments on Douglas' husband; the disposal of the personal papers of Douglas after her death. |
Subject Topical | Women librarians--Southern States. |
Subject Name | Douglas, Mary Peacock, 1903-1970. |
Citation | Interview with Jean Johnson by Budd Leslie Gambee, 27 March 1985 G-0081, 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. | G0081_Audio |