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Accession #MC2011/29
TopicConvocation: Kozol, Jonathan, 1980,
KeywordsImportant Persons, Famous People, Speakers,
TitleJonathan Kozol
LocationCDs in Media Cabinet, IIS and digitized Sound Wave copy on Archives Network [W] in folder titled [Audio Convocation] then identified by accession number, date and title.
CitationJonathan Kozol, MC2011/29, Archives and Brethren Historical Collection, Funderburg Library, Manchester University, North Manchester, Indiana.
AccessResearchers are responsible for determining copyright status of archived materials where this is relevant to their intended use of the materials.
ProvenanceArchives’ Stacks
Scope and Content

8 April 1980 Convocation.  Jonathan Kozol was a public schooteacher in Boston who spoke out about inadequate conditions for learning that existed in that city.  He was fired from his job because of this. He is the author of Death at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools. The book was first published in 1967.  

Reel-to-reel audio tape and accompanying CDs. Two copies of CD Part I. One copy of Part II.

Note - turn volume up.  The quality of this tape is not excellent. 

Date of Accession02 February 2011
Bio History NoteDeath at an Early Age: The Destruction of the Hearts and Minds of Negro Children in the Boston Public Schools, 1967. 
Archivist Note

Reel-to-reel audio tape transferred to CD by Instructional Technologies Department in December 2010 or January 2011.

Description prepared 2 February 2011 by Jeanine M. Wine.

The audio tape had lost too much information to digitize in 2016, but Stan Pittman pulled what he could from the existing CDs so that the words were audible.  The tape was discarded.  Description prepared 4 October 2016 by Jeanine M. Wine.

 


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