Virginia Schoats 09/03/2009
Description
Virginia Schoats, a longtime resident of Muskogee, Oklahoma, and a 1978 graduate of Oklahoma State University with a doctorate degree, talks about her childhood and having to work early on to help support her family. She explains her educational path and how that led to her long career in education and counseling. Schoats describes the different positions she has held and the impact of integration. She discusses her time in Muskogee and how much it has changed since she first moved there. She mentions some of the people who have helped her throughout her life and acknowledges her husband who, early in their marriage, taught at Manual Training High School for thirteen years.
| Date(s) | 09/03/2009 |
| Call Number | SOK_021 |
| Subjects | African Americans, African Americans--Education, Teachers, Universities and college--Alumni and alumnae, Race relations, Interviews Childhood, Career, Rural education, School desegregation |
| Interviewee(s) | Virginia Schoats |
| Interviewer(s) | Mary Larson |