Reminiscences of J. Curtis Dixon, 1967
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- Name
- Dixon, J. Curtis (John Curtis), 1894-1975 (Interviewee)
- Hawkins, Robbin (Interviewer)
- Title
- Reminiscences of J. Curtis Dixon, 1967
- Abstract
- Family background, early schooling; Mercer and Columbia Universities; World War I; career as teacher, principal, businessman, school superintendent in Richland, Georgia; State Supervisor of School Administration and Finance; county schools survey; State agent for Negro schools; graduate work, Teachers College; General Education Board; Rosenwald Fund; rural education conferences; Jeanes teachers; Vi ce Chancellor, University of Georgia, 1940-1942; Vice President, Mercer University, 1942-1946; Southern Education Foundation, 1945-1965: moving headquarters to Atlanta, staff, financing, programs, travel, charter; analysis of Negro educational institutions; training for principals; effect of 1954 desegregation decision
- Collection Name
- Rockefeller Foundation oral history collection
- Subjects
- School administrators; Education--Georgia; African Americans--Education; African Americans--Segregation; Education, Rural; Educational fund raising; Dixon, J. Curtis (John Curtis), 1894-1975; General Education Board (New York, N.Y.); Julius Rosenwald Fund; Mercer University; Southern Education Foundation
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1967
- Note (Biographical)
- Educator
- Note
- Interviewed by Robbin Hawkins.
- Note (Provenance)
- J. Curtis Dixon, Gift 1967
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
Browse Location’s Digital Content - Catalog Record
- 15210789
- Also In
- Oral History Archives at Columbia
- Time-Based Media
- Time-Based Media
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-tgq9-ne20
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.