- Collection:
- Voices Across The Color Line Oral History Collection, 2005-2006
- Title:
- Pearlie Dove interview
- Creator:
- Dove, Pearlie, 1921-2015
Merritt, Carole - Publisher:
- Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center, 130 West Paces Ferry RD, Atlanta, GA 30305
- Date of Original:
- 2006-01-12
- Subject:
- African Americans--History
Civil rights
Racism
Race discrimination
Race relations--Georgia--Atlanta
Education--Georgia--Atlanta
Religion
Big Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church (Atlanta, Ga.)
Atlanta University Center (Ga.)
Morris Brown College
Atlanta Life Insurance Company (Atlanta, Ga.)
Booker T. Washington High School (Atlanta, Ga.)
Grady Memorial Hospital (Atlanta, Ga.)
Emory University
Clark University (Atlanta, Ga.)
University of Colorado, Boulder
Young Women's Christian Association (Atlanta, Ga.)
Ebenezer Baptist Church (Atlanta, Ga.)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
Grady High School
Brown High School - People:
- Dove, Pearlie
King, Cornelius
Martin, E. M.
King, Lonnie C., 1936- - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Atlanta Metropolitan Area, 33.8498, 84.4383
United States, Georgia, Cherokee County, Holly Springs, 34.17399, -84.50132
United States, New York, New York County, New York, 40.7142691, -74.0059729 - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- In this interview, Dr. Pearlie Dove discusses her decision to choose education as a field of study. She recalls her involvement for the struggle for equalization of pay for black teachers in Atlanta in the 1940s, and explains her participation in efforts to improve the conditions of Atlanta’s black schools. Dove describes her assessment of public education in Atlanta in terms of segregation, desegregation, re-segregation, and the quality of education for African American students. She ends the interview by discussing the 1973 Atlanta Compromise and how she became involved in the Carter Center’s Atlanta Project.
Pearlie Dove was in born at Grady Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia in 1921. She grew up near Ellis Street in the Washington Park district on the west side of Atlanta. Her father was a restaurateur and her mother worked as a bookkeeper at Atlanta Life Insurance Company. Ms. Dove graduated from Clark University in 1941 with a degree in education and a doctorate from the University of Colorado. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 180.009.001
- Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/VACL/id/48
- Digital Object URL:
- https://www.youtube.com/embed/XI9wLRjL2cg
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- This material is protected by copyright law. (Title 17, U.S Code) Permission for use must be cleared through The Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center. Licensing agreement may be required.
- Extent:
- 55:54 minutes
- Original Collection:
- MSS 990, Voices Across the Color Line oral history transcriptions, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
