Title	Oral history interview with Mtume Imani, 2012 [full audio recording]
Date	2012-04-13
Creator	Imani, Mtume
Contributors	Trojanowski, Hermann J.
Subject headings	University of North Carolina at Greensboro
Place	Greensboro (N.C.)
Description	Mtume Imani (1941 - ) graduated in 1962 with a degree in music education from Woman's College of the University of North Carolina, now The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. After graduation, she taught school for a few years and then worked in the business world. Currently she works part time at the Tyler Youth Group in Aliquippa, Pennsylvania, and is a volunteer at a daycare center. Imani discusses changing her name legally from Brenda Roberts to Mtume Imani in the 1980s, attending St. Anne's Academy in Winston-Salem, North Carolina; receiving a scholarship to Springfield Junior College in Springfield, Illinois; and the importance of education in the African American home while she was growing up. She talks about transferring to Woman's College; the academic standards at the School of Music; the influence of music professors Richard Cox and George Thompson had on her education; and her fencing and billiard classes. Imani recalls her roommate Edith Mayfield, the small number of black students on campus in the early 1960s, and her limited social life due to her music commitments. She concludes the interview by comparing the involvement of the community in the raising of black children in the 1940s and 1950s to today's practices. This item is a time-coded audio transcript. A full-text, printable transcript of this interview is available at http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/OralHisCo/id/7078
Related material	Print/text transcript: http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ui/id/59641
Type	Sound
Original format	Interviews
Original publisher	Greensboro, N.C. : The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. University Libraries
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	OH002 UNCG Institutional Memory Collection
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Additional rights information	NO COPYRIGHT - UNITED STATES. This item has been determined to be free of copyright restrictions in the United States. The user is responsible for determining actual copyright status for any reuse of the material.
Object ID	OH002.038.AUD
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304
OCLC number	905021687

Oral history interview with Mtume Imani, 2012 [full audio recording]

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