Interview with Sam Bryant

Interview with Sam Bryant

Bryant, Ina "Sam"

School integration

Southern States -- Race relations -- History -- 20th century

Teachers -- Southern States

Women poets

Ina “Sam” Bryant is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Bryant shares her early life in rural South Carolina, living and working on the family’s farm, interacting with and feeling protective of her Black friends. Bryant describes attending three different colleges, getting her teaching degree, and the difficulties of being a single mother. Bryant recalls her experience teaching in various high schools including one for teenage parents, TAPS, one in Charlotte in the 1960s that had recently integrated and at Mayo High school, which integrated in the mid-90s. She talks about teaching at Western Carolina University, Southwestern, writing poetry, and her three daughters.

Bryant, Sam

WCU Oral History Collection - Mountain People, Mountain Lives

2019-05-16

Parris, Natalie

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sound recordings

transcripts

interviews

eng

Sound

Text

63975

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/63975

Southern States

1:10:35(duration)

15(pages)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina