Oral history with Ms. Ruth Story

              Oral history with Ms. Ruth Story
F341.5 . M57 vol. 747, pt. 2
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Biography
Mrs. Ruth Evans Story was born on October 20, 1943, in Gulfport, Mississippi. Her father was Wilson Evans, a longshoreman and president of the International Longshoreman's Association in Gulfport. Her mother was Valeria Turner Evans. Her memories of childhood are happy ones of grandparents and parents, aunts and uncles, cousins and lots of family gatherings. Additionally, church was an important part of life when Mrs. Story was growing up. Education was supported and even required in her family. She was graduated from high school and attended Dillard University in New Orleans. On October 18, 1962, Ms. Ruth Evans married Almer L. Story in Gulfport.
They moved to Kansas City, Missouri, which was Mr. Story's home. Mrs. Story earned her bachelor's degree from Avila College in Kansas City, Missouri. She earned her master's degrees from William Carey College and the University of Southern Mississippi. She has taught school in Kansas City, Chicago, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
Table of Contents
I. Childhood
II. Family background
III. Mentor, Lucy Godine
IV. Dillard University, New Orleans, Louisiana
V. Graduation, Avila College, Kansas City
VI. Teaching school in Chicago
VII. Mississippi Day in Chicago
VIII. Returning to the Mississippi Gulf Coast, 1978
IX. Parents in the classroom
X. Segregated, all- black classrooms
XI. Desegregation
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