- Collection:
- Indices to Atlanta University Historical Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- Interview with Ayana Burroughs by Kaia Godsey, June 20, 2023
- Date of Original:
- 2023-06-20
- Subject:
- Oral history
Food
Nineteen ninety-four, A.D.
Females
African Americans
Fulton County (Ga.)
Decatur County (Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- born digital
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Ayana Burroughs describes her experience working as a teacher and shares about her journey to school garden education. She talks about her students and their relationships to food, and the ways in which her students have grown since being involved in the school garden. She gives her insights on social issues, like food deserts and apartheid, and offers her real life experience witnessing it in Atlanta, GA. The interview ends with Burroughs' reflection on the severance between Black people and their seeds, and offers her hopes of more people reconnecting to the land.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/sc.heirloom:0003_01
- Rights Holder:
- Spelman College
- Additional Rights Information:
- To order a reproduction or to inquire about permission to publish, please contact the Spelman College Archivist at https://www.spelman.edu/about-us/archives with the web URL or handle identification number.
- Extent:
- 0:53:25
- Original Collection:
- Heirloom Gardens Oral History Project
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
-
