DARE Interview : Brownsville, Tennessee; Primary Informant TN053

Fieldworker

McKeldin, Marsha

Date

• 1970

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• TN053: Black; male; age: 60 (old); education: college; community type: village
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: TN053 (4:10)
• Full Interview (Tape 1589-S1).
• Content:
• 00:15 Farming: mechanization, land prices, livestock, crops
• 02:05 Farms while being principal of local high school 34 years, rents out farm land, father's farm land, crops, acreage
• 04:50 New job as assistant superintendent, planned merger 2 local high schools, Black and White students to go to new school
• 07:10 Black population 68%, race relations, personal philosophy, first Black assistant superintendent
• 12:45 Race relations, economics, personal philosophy
• 17:05 Family—daughters, grandchildren, mother
• 19:05 Merging of the schools, integration, race relations, plans for local schools
• 24:20 Arthur the Rat
• 28:30 Tape end