T. Harry
Williams Center for Oral History Collection
INTERVIEWEE
NAME: Dolores
Watson Grimes COLLECTION:
4700.0742
IDENTIFICATION: [1933- ] Member of the Brusly community and
former school teacher
INTERVIEWER: Joanne
Bourgeois
PROJECT: Louisiana
History and the Brusly Centennial History Committee
DATES: February 21,
1997 FOCUS DATES:
1940's-1960's
ABSTRACT:
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Birth
place and date; names of parents and their siblings; family genealogical
connections; attending Lukeville Elementary School; going outside the community
for highschool 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 Mrs. Grimes 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:
1076 TOTAL
PLAYING TIME: 45 min.
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PAGES TRANSCRIPT: 41
RESTRICTIONS: None.