Interviewer
Crystal Lunsford, Dr. Lynda Ann Ewen, Dr. Dolores Johnson, Beth Jarvey Upton, Rachel Luther, Serena Structure, & Tamara Martin
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Description
This interview is one of series conducted concerning the Oral History of Appalachia. This interview was part of a project titled "The Contributions of African-American Women in West Virginia." Dr. Bickley discusses: her personal history and childhood; her family (including how it conflicted with her professional life); her education (including an aunt who was a teacher, another teacher named Mrs. Mae D. Brown, and degrees from West Virginia State College and Marshall University); integration in education; her experiences as a student and as a professor; her employment history; church; projects she was involved in; her role in bringing the Carter G. Woodson statue to Huntington; plays & stories she was writing; people who served as role models to her; her experiences at Douglass High School; her involvement in history & oral history projects; discrimination she' faced; the military (including missile defense systems); race relations in Germany and the United States; the Civil Rights Movement; her views on youth and problems of the time; and numerous other topics as well.
Publication Date
1997
Identifier
OH64-675
Type
Text
Comments
Interview is included in the Marshall University Oral History Collection. The index number is OH64-675.
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Educational use only, no other permissions given. Copyright to this resource is held by the content creator, author, artist or other entity, and is provided here for educational purposes only. It may not be reproduced or distributed in any format without written permission of the copyright owner.
Recommended Citation
Marshall University Special Collections, OH64-675, Huntington, WV.
Library of Congress Subjects
Bickley, Ancella, 1930- -- Autobiography.
Douglass High School (Huntington, W.Va.) -- Oral histories.
Marshall University -- Oral histories.
West Virginia State College (Institute, W. Va.) -- Oral histories.
Farm life -- West Virginia -- Oral histories.