Digital Collections

You can suggest corrections to the following fields for item Greene, Carolyn (Interview transcript and video), 2006.

You can also leave general comments or suggestions in the "comments" section. An administrator will review your contribution.

Thank you for taking the time to improve this site!

Comments

Please describe the nature of this correction, or anything about it that we should know. Thanks!

Can we contact you?

Check this box if it is okay for us to contact you about this correction.

Contributor

An entity responsible for making contributions to the resource

Current data for Contributor

Collins Sr., Charles E. (Interviewer)

Creator

An entity primarily responsible for making the resource

Current data for Creator

Greene, Carolyn Annette

Date

A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource

Current data for Date

2006-08-21

Description

An account of the resource

Current data for Description

Carolyn Greene was born in Jackson, Mississippi on June 23, 1948. Her father was in the US Air Force and she grew up where he was stationed at Kessler Air Force Base in Mississippi. When Carolyn was a teenager she was active in the Civil Rights Movement, working with the Freedom Riders, NAACP, and even got to meet Martin Luther King. She enlisted in the Army in 1972 after graduating from college, and went through basic training in Fort Jackson in South Carolina. She then went to Fort Rucker in Alabama where she took AIT classes and spent the rest of her service working in an office. In the interview, she notes continuing problems with racism in Alabama and some of the problems that returning veterans from Vietnam brought with them.

Source

A related resource from which the described resource is derived

Current data for Source

Veterans History Project collection, RHC-27

report a problem with this page

Digital Collections

Address

Contact

Social Media