| Ref No | MS 4000/5/1/7/9 |
| 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 | 07 November 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): 1.28 Description of track: CB describes period of curfew imposition in Washington DC; supports Dan Fader's aim to give everyone an awareness to choose or reject the dominant culture and language
Track 3: Duration (min/sec): 4.47 Description of track: describes racist incidents which she has personally experienced; believes teachers who correct children with a dialect are destroying the child as all of the teachers have their own accents depending on where they are teaching
Track 4: Duration (min/sec): 3.47 Description of track: describes incidents relating to dialect and the pressure on children to speak as they do in school; intricacies of non-standard English syntax
Track 5: Duration (min/sec): 1.05 Description of track: CB and CP discuss double negatives and CB recites a love poem using double negatives
Track 6: Duration (min/sec): 1.31 Description of track: CP asks her to describe what should be told to a white West End audience about the slave trade
Track 7: Duration (min/sec): 1.51 Description of track: CB talks about young people believing that what happens to black people in Mississippi is intended to be rolled out to other states
Track 8: Duration (min/sec): 1.39 Description of track: CB despairs of the situation in such a large country
Total duration: (min/sec): 16.22 |
| 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 PF235 S108 0774
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: 12/02
Notes: Intermittent popping sound in left hand channel |
| Access Status | Open |
| Language | English |