LueRachelle Brim-Atkins and Jacquelyn Howard
Recorded
May 21, 2023
Archived
May 21, 2023
54:07 minutes
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Id:
ddd001887
Description
Friends LueRachelle Brim-Atkins (76) and Jacquelyn Howard [no age given] discuss LueRachelle's childhood in Texas and her experiences with desegregation at the University of Texas. After college, LueRachelle took an internship as a teacher in Rochester, NY, and ultimately moved to Seattle and continued to work towards equity.Subject Log / Time Code
LueRachelle (L) shares that she did not want to be a teacher and how she got into her current line of work in racial equity.
L talks about growing up in a segregated town in Naples, TX near Arkansas.
L reflects on her college experience at the University of Texas, where she had her first white teachers and classmates.
L discusses moving to Rochester, NY and noticing differences in the treatment of white children and black children.
L shares about her grandfather speaking up about injustice.
L talks about moving to Seattle and doing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion work at the University of Washington.
L talks about her family and how she raised them.
Participants
- LueRachelle Brim-Atkins
- Jacquelyn Howard