DARE Interview : Brookeland, Texas; Primary Informant TX035

Fieldworker

Dwyer, Warren L.P.

Date

• 1967

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• TX035: White; male; age: 87 (old); education: high school; community type: rural
• Media File:
• Full Interview (Tape 1622-S1).
• Content:
• 00:35 Teaching: education; 1900 taught country school, teaching reading and spelling, textbooks
• 08:00 Teachers paid by state, teacher's certification
• 12:50 Farming he did while a teacher
• 16:05 Teaching in the county country schools, state school aid
• 25:25 First Black teacher in the county, Black schools
• 28:45 During slavery, difference in learning abilities among slaves
• 30:50 Story about a Black man learning the alphabet
• 31:30 Tape end