Johnson / Graduation
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Interviewer: What made you feel like the school wasn’t ready for you to walk across the stage? Johnson: I think it’s a given that there was an element there in command who was not ready for me to even make it to that point. I think this was a thing that we overlook. We give lip service to all this stuff, but the reality is there are those who feel like you’re never ready for that. It’s unfortunate that they are in the decision-making slots, but again, to avoid any kind of unrest or create something, the thing I wanted to do was get the degree. Of course, the people who I would want to know about it and that was the big thing. Not necessarily the show part of it. It’s the reason why I could go along with that kind of idea because I didn’t want to put some other kind of roadblock for those to come. That was my thinking on that.
| Interview | Interview with James E. Johnson |
| Subjects | Race Relations › Black-White Race Relations |
| Discrimination or Segregation › Discrimination or Segregation at School | |
| Education › Higher Education | |
| Education › Education and Integration › Resistance to School Integration | |
| Historic Periods › Mid-1960s [Exact Date Unknown] | |
| Tags | Texas A&M University |
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| Interview date | 2015-07-21 |
| Interview source | CRBB Summer 2015 |
| Interviewees | Johnson, James E. |
| Interviewers | Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés |
| Bynum, Katherine | |
| Locations | Bryan/College Station, TX |
| Duration | 00:01:53 |
| Citation | "Graduation ," from James E. Johnson oral history interview with Moisés Acuña-Gurrola and Katherine Bynum, July 21, 2015, Prairie View, TX , Civil Rights in Black and Brown Interview Database, https://crbb.tcu.edu/clips/711/graduation, accessed November 21, 2024 |
