{"id":173,"date":"2009-09-14T10:04:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-14T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/itech.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/?p=173"},"modified":"2009-09-14T10:04:00","modified_gmt":"2009-09-14T14:04:00","slug":"burton-ms-geraldine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/2009\/09\/14\/burton-ms-geraldine\/","title":{"rendered":"Burton, Ms. Geraldine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: center\"><span><span style=\"font-size: x-small\"><a href=\"?p=76\">Archives<\/a> |\u00a0<a href=\"?p=85\">Interview Transcripts<\/a> | <a href=\"?p=78\">Maps<\/a> | <a href=\"?p=77\">Photos<\/a> | <a href=\"?page_id=567\" target=\"_self\">Links<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong><a href=\"?p=94\">South Africa<\/a> | <a href=\"?p=95\">Mississippi<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">\n<p><!--    --><\/p>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]&gt;--><\/p>\n<p><!--[endif]--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">Interview with Ms. Geraldine Burton<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"?p=150\" target=\"_self\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Transcript access controlled.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>General Topic of Interview: Education during and after Jim Crow<\/p>\n<p>Dat<span style=\"color: #000000\">e: 28 October, 2008<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Location: Clarkesdale, Mississippi, USA<\/p>\n<p>Narrator: Ms. Geraldine Burton<\/p>\n<p>Interviewers: James Chapnick, Kyle Coston, Max Paschall<\/p>\n<p>Transcriber: Unknown<\/p>\n<p>Biographical Information:<\/p>\n<p>Geraldine Burton was born in McGee, Mississippi, and grew up in Simpson County.\u00a0 She is now a retired teacher.\u00a0 Throughout her career she taught Social Studies and African-American history in Coahoma County and Quitman County.<\/p>\n<p>Interview Information:<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Ms. Burton discusses education from the perspective of a student and a teacher.\u00a0 She recalls the deaths of a cousin and uncle, both killed by the KKK, as well as a KKK bombing of a local Clarkesdale church.\u00a0 Before becoming a teacher, Ms. Burton worked as a domestic for a woman who strictly enforced segregation.\u00a0 This experience formed her opinion of the importance of education in creating change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archives |\u00a0Interview Transcripts | Maps | Photos | Links South Africa | Mississippi Interview with Ms. Geraldine Burton Transcript access controlled. General Topic of Interview: Education during and after Jim Crow Date: 28 October, 2008 Location: Clarkesdale, Mississippi, USA Narrator: Ms. Geraldine Burton Interviewers: James Chapnick, Kyle Coston, Max Paschall Transcriber: Unknown Biographical Information: Geraldine [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/blacklib\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}