Oral history interview with Turner C. Battle, III 1981
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- Name
- Battle, Turner C., III, 1926- (Interviewee)
- Goodson, Martia (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Turner C. Battle, III 1981
- Abstract
- Family background; Oakwood College, BA; Temple University, MFA; teacher, Philadelphia school system, 1955-65; Assistant Professor, Elmira College, Associate Professor of Art 1968-70, Moore College, 1968-70; Higher Education Coalition of Southeastern Pennsylvania; Teaching fellow, New York University, 1970-72; Director, counselling, Westminster Choir College, 1974-74; assistant executive director, U nited Negro College Fund from 1974: staff problems, fund raising, integration, comparison of black to other ethnic communities; impressions of Christopher Edley and William Trent.
- Collection Name
- United Negro College Fund project
- Subjects
- Educators; African Americans--Education; Educational fund raising; Battle, Turner C., III, 1926-; United Negro College Fund
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 1981
- Note (Biographical)
- Educator.
- Note
- Interviewed by Martia Goodson on December 4, 1981.
- Note (Provenance)
- Turner C. Battle, III, Gift 1982
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 13497296
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-sb9m-3h61
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.