In this interview, Jeannette Dora Black discusses her family, her education at Providence's Classical High School, and her reasons for attending Pembroke College. She remembers her requirements and classes at Pembroke, her feelings about coeducation, the Pembroke administration, and Dean Margaret Shove Morriss. Black recalls working at the John Hay Library and the effects of the stock market crash of 1929 and World War II on Pembroke. She describes her life after college, including her graduate studies at Radcliffe, working at the John Carter Brown Library, and ethnic, racial, and sexual discrimination she identified at Brown.
Part 1
Part 2
Recorded on Nov 22, 1982
Providence, RI
Interviewed by Naomi Hurowitz