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Barbara Freeman Cooper and Eartha Bryant Head Interview

dc.contributor.authorNewberry, James
dc.contributor.otherCooper, Barbara Freeman
dc.contributor.otherHead, Eartha Bryant
dc.coverage.spatialMarietta (Ga.), Georgia
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-14T21:16:00Z
dc.date.created2/3/2020
dc.date.issued2020-05-14T21:16:00Z
dc.date.issued2020-05-14T21:16:00Z
dc.date.issued2020-05-14T21:16:00Z
dc.identifierksu-14-05-04-00201
dc.identifier.citationBarbara Freeman Cooper and Eartha Bryant Head Interview, 2020-02-03, The Lemon Street Schools Oral History Collection, Marietta City Schools, 2020, KSU/14/05/04, Kennesaw State University.
dc.identifier.urihttps://soar.kennesaw.edu/handle/11360/3535
dc.descriptionBorn in 1942, Barbara Freeman Cooper grew up in the Fort Hill Homes housing project on Lemon Street in Marietta, Georgia. She attended Lemon Street Elementary School and Lemon Street High School. After graduation, Cooper attended Tuskegee Institute, married, and moved to Washington, D.C., where she taught in the District of Columbia Public Schools system for over 30 years. After retirement Cooper returned to Georgia and eventually settled in Austell. Born in 1940, Eartha Bryant Head grew up in the Fort Hill Homes housing project on Lemon Street in Marietta, Georgia. She attended Lemon Street Elementary School and Lemon Street High School. After graduation, Head trained as a Licensed Practical Nurse at Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta and worked one year at Marietta’s Kennestone Hospital before starting nursing school at University Hospital in Augusta, Georgia. She returned to Kennestone in 1964 and began work in the segregated psychiatric ward. She is still working as a Registered Nurse over 50 years later.
dc.description.abstractOral history interview of Marietta locals Barbara Freeman Cooper and Eartha Bryant Head, February 3, 2020.
dc.format.mimetypeaudio/mp3
dc.language.isoen_US
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dc.subjectCooper, Barbara Freeman.
dc.subjectHead, Eartha Bryant.
dc.subjectLemon Street Schools (Marietta, Ga.).
dc.subjectMarietta City Schools (Marietta, Ga.).
dc.subjectMarietta (Ga.) -- History.
dc.subjectOral histories.
dc.titleBarbara Freeman Cooper and Eartha Bryant Head Interview
dc.typeaudio
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