Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener

Title:

Oral history transcript, Edith Green, interview 1 (I), 8/23/1985, by Janet Kerr-Tener

Number of Pages:

82

Description:

Biographical information; teaching career; candidacy for Congress; support of JFK; Wayne Morse; impression of LBJ as a Senator; education legislation; federal aid to education; opinion of Sam Rayburn; parochial school question; Adam Clayton Powell and Carl Perkins; state departments of education; John Gardner; Job Corps; discrimination on the basis of sex in various areas; Vietnam; the disadvantaged students; views on busing and civil rights; black colleges; mixed feelings about LBJ; relationship with the White House; War on Poverty; changes in professions open to women; today

Contributor:

Green, Edith

Collection:

LBJ Library Oral Histories

Collection Description:

Go to List of Holdings

Series:

Transcripts of LBJ Library Oral Histories

See Also:

See all online interviews with Edith Green

Subject:

Rayburn, Sam, 1882-1961; Vietnam

Relation:

Go to Interviewee bio page

Rights:

Possibly copyright restricted: see deed at end of transcript for details