Oral history with Mrs. Marie Washington Kent

              Oral history with Mrs. Marie Washington Kent
F341.5 . M57 vol. 733
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Biography
Mrs. Marie Washington Kent was born in Natchez, Mississippi. She moved to Hattiesburg in 1911. She attended the Eureka School. After graduating in 1923, Ms. Washington studied at Strait College in New Orleans, Louisiana, for two years, and then began teaching. In 1935 she completed a Bachelor of Science degree at Alcorn College. She did further study during two summers at Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee.
During her career, Miss Washington taught in several Mississippi towns, three years in Grenada, one year in Clarksdale, and eight in Biloxi. She moved to Hattiesburg where she taught English at Eureka High School for ten years. Iva Sandifer succeeded her.
Miss Washington became Mrs. Marie Washington Kent after she retired from teaching.
Table of Contents
I. Birth; education; teachers at Eureka High School
II. Playing sports ( volleyball, croquet, tennis, basketball)
III. Attending Strait College, New Orleans, Louisiana
IV. Teaching career; attending Alcorn College and Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee
V. Hercules Powder Company and J. J. Newman Lumber Company; high school athletics; athletic competitors
VI. Teaching of Latin and Negro history
VII. Introduction of business courses; the music department; introduction of industrial education and domestic science
VIII. Immunizations; black doctors and dentists in Hattiesburg
IX. Black businesses ( drugstores, funeral homes, grocery stores) in Hattiesburg
X. Black funeral homes
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