T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History Collection

ABSTRACT

INTERVIEWEE NAME:  Dolores Watson Grimes             COLLECTION:   4700.0742

IDENTIFICATION:  [1933-    ] Member of the Brusly community and former school teacher

INTERVIEWER:  Joanne Bourgeois

PROJECT:  Brusly Centennial

INTERVIEW DATE:  February 21, 1997                         

FOCUS DATES:  1940's-1970's

ABSTRACT:

Tape 1076

Birth place and date; names of parents and their siblings; family genealogical connections; attending Lukeville Elementary School; going outside the community for high school and transferring to Cohn High School for senior year after Cohn High was built; teachers and staff at Cohn High School; the importance of getting an African-American High School in the area; attending Southern University; marriage to Doc Grimes, Jr. and starting a family; beginning to teach and being one of the first African-American teachers to integrate with the faculty at Port Allen High School in 1968; assignment to Cohn High School and memories of the educational scene; desegregation; memories of Tousant Isadore, her grandfather a shoemaker in the Brusly community; memories of walking to the Red and White Store; discussion of community members; Choctaw Elementary where Miss Rosa Haney taught; education of her children; the family connection of the home that she is in.

TAPES:   1 (T1076)                                     TOTAL PLAYING TIME:  45 min.

# PAGES TRANSCRIPT:  41

OTHER MATERIALS:  Interviewee Release Form; Interviewer Release Form.

RESTRICTIONS:  None.