Interview with Jewel Walker-Harps, July 30, 2015

Jean Walker-Harps was born in 1939 and grew up on a farm in Glenville, Georgia. She attended Morris-Brown College and in 1961, she moved to Griffin, Georgia where she worked as a teacher at Fairmont High School. During the Civil Rights Movement, Walker-Harps worked with the NAACP where she held many leadership roles. In this interview, Walker-Harps discusses her upbringing, teaching in segregated and integrated schools, her Civil Rights activism, and her perception of the changes to Griffin over the years.

2015-07-30

RBRL418GAA-004

53 minutes