OH240 Christine Cole Oral History

Authors

Steve Ross

Collection Title

Jackson Purchase Oral History Project - Schools and Education

Series Number

OH240

Interviewee

Cole, Christine

Interviewer

Ross, Steve

Date Interviewed

October 10th, 1995

Processed By

O'Daniel, Hannah

Date Processed

January 31st, 2014

Description

1 sound disc (43 minutes)

Abstract

Christine Cole provides insight on how the threat of integration led to improvements in the African American public schools in Hickman County, Kentucky as the school system attempted to prove equitable treatment of both African American and white students. She describes the daily routine of students and teachers at the Kane Elementary School in Clinton, Kentucky and the physical conditions of the school building. She discloses her various salaries over the course of her career as an elementary school teacher. She also mentions genealogical information.

Biographical/Historical Note

Christine Cole was an African American elementary school teacher from Clinton, Kentucky. She graduated from Lincoln High School in Paducah, Kentucky in 1932. After graduation, she taught briefly in a one-room schoolhouse at Spring Hill, Hickman County, Kentucky before she attended West Kentucky Industrial College in Paducah. She taught third, fourth, and fifth grade at Kane Elementary in Clinton until 1966, with intermittent episodes of teaching in Kibble and Oakton, Kentucky prior to her retirement in 1966. In 1954, she graduated from Kentucky State University with a degree in education.

General Information

No user access to original recordings. Use audio user copies, digital derivatives, transcripts, and/or tape indexes. This collection may be protected from unauthorized copying by the Copyright Law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code). Permission for reproduction must be requested from Murray State University.

Subject Headings/Descriptors

Cole, Christine, 1910-2004

Clinton (Ky.) – History.

Education – Kentucky -- Hickman County – History.

African Americans – Education – Kentucky.

Segregation in education – Kentucky.

Kentucky – Race relations.

Kane Elementary School (Clinton,Ky.)

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