Dr. Joyce M. Grant discusses her career as a teacher, civil rights activist, community organizer, school administrator, and professor in the College of Education at Michigan State University

Description:: Grant grew up in Boston and graduated from Boston State College. Grant says she was denied a teaching position in the Boston Public schools due to her race, but was later made Deputy Superintendent for Boston schools after earning her doctorate from Harvard. Grant talks about her work with Episcopal priest James P. Breeden on civil rights issues and with Jonathan Kozol in the Community Schools movement. She came to the Michigan Partnership for New Education in 1991.
Date Issued:: 2006-03-19T00:00:00Z
Data Provider:: Michigan State University. Libraries
Collection:: G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
Place:: Massachusetts, Boston, and United States
Subject Topic:: Political activity, Faculty, Educational attainment, Discrimination in employment, and Community schools
Subject Name:: Grant, Joyce M., Grant, Joyce M., Breeden, James P. (James Pleasant), Kozol, Jonathan, Michigan State University, Boston Public Schools, and Michigan Partnership for New Education
Subject Genre:: Interviews and Interviews
Language:: English
Rights:: In Copyright
URL:: https://n2t.net/ark:/85335/m5610vs4q