OH243 Betty Ann Crisp Oral History

Authors

Steve Ross

Collection Title

Jackson Purchase Oral History Project - Schools and Education

Series Number

OH243

Interviewee

Crisp, Betty Ann

Interviewer

Ross, Steve

Date Interviewed

October 16th, 1995

Processed By

O'Daniel, Hannah

Date Processed

February 11th, 2014

Description

1 sound disc (47 minutes)

Abstract

Betty Ann Crisp describes the physical conditions of the Kane School, an African American elementary school in Clinton, Hickman County, Kentucky, in the late 1930s and 1940s. She details both the academic and recreational aspects of her elementary education, including the games that the girls played during recess, her teachers, the annual graduation ceremony and punishments received by mischievous students. She recalls how the town of Clinton did not have a high school for African Americans, so she and others from Clinton had to travel a complicated busing route to attend the segregated high school at Hickman, Kentucky. She mentioned school consolidation in Hickman County as a parent and describes the experiences of her son when he transferred to the desegregated Central School of Hickman County in the sixth grade.

Biographical/Historical Note

Betty Ann Crisp was born in Clinton, Kentucky in 1933. She attended Kane Elementary School when she was six years old and continued through to the eighth grade. She graduated from the segregated Hickman High School in Kentucky. She married Earl Crisp Junior and had six children. Her husband died on October 15th, 2009. As of February 2014, she is a board member of Hickman County Senior Citizens, Inc. and involved with the Hickman County Library.

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

Crisp, Betty Ann, 1933-

Clinton (Ky.) – History.

Education – Kentucky -- Hickman County – History.

African Americans – Education – Kentucky.

Segregation in education – Kentucky.

Kentucky – Race relations.

Kane Elementary School (Clinton,Ky.)

Recommended Citation

Ross, Steve, "OH243 Betty Ann Crisp Oral History" (2025). Education and Desegregation. 13.
https://digitalcommons.murraystate.edu/oh-education/13