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Rondo Oral History Project: Interview with Mary Kalleen Murray Boyd

Rondo Oral History Project: Interview with Mary Kalleen Murray Boyd

Titles: Rondo Oral History Project: Interview with Mary Kalleen Murray Boyd (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Mary K. Boyd's parents settled in Saint Paul after attending traditional black colleges in the South. They raised her along with foster children and provided a home for extended family as well. Her father worked at the post office and was a professional musician. She participated in Tomorrow's Scientists and Technicians Club and the Junior Red Cross. She later served in the junior branch of the NAACP, eventually becoming its president. Boyd attended college in Arizona where she faced discrimination. She trained and worked for the civil rights movement and went on to an accomplished career as a school administrator. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Gaining insight of the village community in Africa that led her to believe she grew up in the Rondo village; the Rondo village landscape with the Hallie Q. Brown Community Center and the churches; the Three-Fours Girls Club, a finishing school for girls in the village; being the object of discrimination at college in Arizona; work she did for the civil rights movement.

Dates

  • 05/12/2004 - 08/16/2004 (Interviews conducted 5/12/2004 and 8/16/2004.) (Creation)

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Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

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Quantity: 1 sound cassette 73 pages transcript 1 audio files

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  • Content Category: sound recordings
  • Content Category: text

Measurements

  • 00:42:18 running time

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Rondo Oral History Project: Interview with Mary Kalleen Murray Boyd

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