WAH 001B Gartrell Agee 12-6-2023
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Document Type
Oral History
Abstract
In this recording, Ms. Gartrell Agee is interviewed by Vickie Graham and Mara Kozelsky at the Black Education Museum in Daphne. This is a continuation of the first interview from November 29, 1953. Ms. Agee is the director of the museum. Founded and operated by volunteers, and located on the campus of the former Baldwin County Training School (now the W. J. Carroll Daphne Junior Highschool), the museum is dedicated to preserving history and artifacts related to the Baldwin County Training School. The interview begins with Ms. Agee discussing her teacher training, and role in helping to integrate Baldwin County Schools as one of the first Black educators to teach an integrated classroom. She also describes her career as one of the county’s first Black principals. Additionally, Ms. Agee reflects on segregation, her participation in the marches in Montgomery in the 1950s, and her experience living and working in Chicago before returning to Alabama to have a family, and finish her college education in the 1960s. In the last 25 minutes of the recording, Patrick Willoughby and Kozelsky film and record Ms. Agee narrating a partial tour of the museum.
Publication Date
12-6-2023
Recommended Citation
Agee, Gartrell; Kozelsky, Mara; and Graham, Vickie, "WAH 001B Gartrell Agee 12-6-2023" (2023). We Are Here (WAH). 9.
https://jagworks.southalabama.edu/oral_hist-wah/9