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.<BR><BR>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.XXXX7078
