Oral History Interview: Ancella Bickley

This interview is one of series conducted concerning the Oral History of Appalachia. This interview was part of a project titled The Contributions of African-American Women in West Virginia. Dr. Bickley discusses: her personal history and childhood; her family (including how it conflicted with her professional life); her education (including an aunt who was a teacher, another teacher named Mrs. Mae D. Brown, and degrees from West Virginia State College and Marshall University); integration in education; her experiences as a student and as a professor; her employment history; church; projects she was involved in; her role in bringing the Carter G. Woodson statue to Huntington; plays & stories she was writing; people who served as role models to her; her experiences at Douglass High School; her involvement in history & oral history projects; discrimination she\u27 faced; the military (including missile defense systems); race relations in Germany and the United States; the Civil Rights Movement; her views on youth and problems of the time; and numerous other topics as well.https://mds.marshall.edu/oral_history/1537/thumbnail.jp

A Study Of The Effects Of Teaching A Unit On Black Culture To Classes Of Predominantly White High School Students.

The primary objective of this study was to assess whether or not a unit on black culture taught to a group of predominantly white students would affect their racial beliefs, their degree of authoitarianism or their degree of open and closed mindedness. The secondary objective of this study was to determine if there would be any significant differences between these students\u27 racial beliefs, their degree of authoritarianism or their degree of open and closed mindedness if they were taught the unit on black culture by a black teacher and if there were taught the unit on black culture by a white teacher