- Collection:
- Southern Nursing Collection
- Title:
- Bernice Dixon Oral History Interview, March 11, 2015
- Creator:
- Dixon, Bernice
- Contributor to Resource:
- Drummond, Traci
- Publisher:
- Atlanta, Ga. : Georgia State University Library
- Date of Original:
- 2015-03-11
- Subject:
- Nurses
Nursing--Study and teaching
Segregation in higher education
Farm life
Women college students--Social life and customs - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, 33.79025, -84.46702
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
United States, Georgia, Gwinnett County, Lilburn, 33.8901, -84.14297 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- video/mp4
- Description:
- Bernice Killcrease Dixon was born in Gwinnett County, Georgia on March 6, 1922. She grew up on a farm. Dixon attended Grady Hospital School of Nursing beginning in 1942. She worked in Grady Hospital as a student nurse and later became a teacher and administrator at the nursing school.
Dixon discusses her family and childhood, her time as a nursing student, and her career as a nurse. She also discusses jobs she held before becoming a nurse, segregation and integration at the Grady Hospital School of Nursing, and the nursing shortage caused by World War II. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.library.gsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/sonurse/id/4457
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Copyright to this item is owned by Georgia State University Library. Georgia State University Library has made this item available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License. For more information see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
- Bibliographic Citation (Cite As):
- Cite as: Bernice Dixon, interviewed by Traci Drummond, March 11, 2015, Grady Hospital School of Nursing Oral Histories, Southern Labor Archives. Special Collections and Archives, Georgia State University Library.
- Extent:
- 01:30:47
- Original Collection:
- Grady School of Nursing Oral History Project
Southern Labor Archives - Holding Institution:
- Georgia State University. Special Collections
- Rights:
-
