- Collection:
- Voices Across The Color Line Oral History Collection, 2005-2006
- Title:
- Billie Gaines interview
- Creator:
- Gaines, Billie Davis, 1937-
Merritt, Carole - Publisher:
- Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center, 130 West Paces Ferry RD, Atlanta, GA 30305
- Date of Original:
- 2006-02-16
- Subject:
- African Americans--History
Civil rights
Racism
Race discrimination
Race relations--Georgia--Atlanta
Education--Georgia--Atlanta
Tuskegee Institute
Talladega College
Atlanta University Center (Ga.)
Booker T. Washington High School (Atlanta, Ga.)
Rich's (Retail store)
Washington Post Company
Vassar College - People:
- Gaines, Billie
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915
Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943
Collen, Thomas Nelson - Location:
- United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
United States, Georgia, Atlanta Metropolitan Area, 33.8498, 84.4383
United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983 - Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- In this interview, Billie Gaines details her childhood and the importance of education in her family. She discusses the issues and failures of the Atlanta Public School System since desegregation and the resegregation in many school districts, due to the expansion of the suburbs and the introduction of different ethnic groups in the Atlanta area. Gaines ends the interview with her assessment of minorities in the museum profession.
Ms. Gaines was born in 1937 at Tuskegee Institute in Alabama and spent early childhood in Greenwood,a village for faculty housing at Tuskegee. Her family lived in Savannah before moving to Atlanta, Georgia in 1949. Ms. Gaines attended Booker T. Washington High School and then Vassar College. She earned her PhD in Russian from Bryn Mawr. - Local Identifier:
- VIS 180.012.001
- Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/ref/collection/VACL/id/53
- Digital Object URL:
- https://www.youtube.com/embed/sNFsbYo5v6c
- 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:
- 2:44:49 hours
- Original Collection:
- MSS 990, Voices Across the Color Line oral history transcriptions, Kenan Research Center, Atlanta History Center
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
