| Ref No | MS 4000/5/1/7/2 |
| Title | Sound recording of Charlotte Brooks talking about her work, experience of racial segregation and black history as a black woman in America |
| Level | File |
| Date | July 1968 |
| Description | Recording of interview by Charles Parker of Charlotte Brooks (CB) talking about her work, experience of racial segregation and black history as a black woman in America.
Track 1: Duration (min/sec): 0.12 Description of track: [silent start to tape]
Track 2: Duration (min/sec): 1.22 Description of track: CB talks about attending school with white people when doing her Masters degree and her ability to compete equally with white people; disagrees that education got her out of the ghetto; needed a law before she could leave the ghetto and mingle with other people; she has made the decision to continue to live in the ghetto
Track 3: Duration (min/sec): 0.49 Description of track: talks about Washington DC; a black city where white people commute in from suburbs; likes warmth of her small community; does not envy the white people their lifestyle and suburbs
Track 4: Duration (min/sec): 1.54 Description of track: talks about her work as Head of Department of English for the City of Washington and Consultant for the of fice of Education; travels a great deal; does not believe in interfering with dialect and language at all to fit into a 'dominant culture'
Track 5: Duration (min/sec): 0.47 Description of track: talks about people in the Mississippi Delta
Track 6: Duration (min/sec): 1.16 Description of track: talks about black poverty in the Mississippi Delta with decline of cotton trade
Track 7: Duration (min/sec): 3.39 Description of track: describes how important railways were to her community; reaching Memphis was the passage out for black people; continues describing poverty in Mississippi
Track 8: Duration (min/sec): 1.45 Description of track: describes political situation with no senators or congressman from Washington DC itself to represent black people as they all come from other states; the longest standing ones come from the conservative south whose major aim is to control the blacks
Track 9: Duration (min/sec): 2.12 Description of track: CB talks about black culture and slavery; grew up with no written history of her culture in the general textbooks; thinks there is now a demand by young people for the folklore, songs and superstitions of black people
Track 10: Duration (min/sec): 2.19 Description of track: mentions Alex Hayley who wrote a biography of Malcolm X and work CB has done with him
Total duration: (min/sec): 16.17 |
| Related Material | See also MS 4000/3 for written documentation on the themes of Education and Ethnic Communities |
| Physical Description | Listening copy: 1 x CD-R serial number KF228 U103 2874
Original tape:
Size: 5" tape reel
Gauge: 1/4" tape (0.625cm)
Speed: 7.5ips (19cm/s);
EQ Curve used: IEC
Track configuration: Half Track Stereo
Dubbing Date: 11/02 |
| Access Status | Open |
| Language | English |