Jacqueline Walker interviewed by Zenobia Lee-Nelson and Illiana Harris, Session 2, 2019

Creator:

Walker, Jacqueline Baldwin, 1949-, Lee-Nelson, Zenobia, and Harris, Illiana

Extent:

16.4 Megabytes 1 digital file and 00:32:41 Duration (HH:MM:SS.mmm)

Scope and content:

Records an interview with Dr. Jacqueline Walker, who reflects on her family history in Burke County, Georgia, her parents' experiences during the Great Migration, and the central role of education for Black women in her family. The interview documents multigenerational strategies for securing schooling beyond the eighth grade, stories of landownership, racial violence, and economic displacement in the Jim Crow South, and the expectations that Walker and her siblings pursue professional careers in fields such as history, engineering, and computing. Discusses themes of race, gender, and education, linking southern Black rural life, migration to northern cities such as East Orange, New Jersey, and the shaping of her own academic trajectory, including her later work developing African American history courses and African, African American, and Diaspora Studies at James Madison University.

Language:

English

Physical facet:

(.wav)

Names:

Walker, Jacqueline Baldwin, 1949-
Lee-Nelson, Zenobia
Harris, Illiana

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