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Jeanie Martin Carter Interview, January 29, 2020
Newberry, James
Newberry, James
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Oral history interview of Marietta City Schools System educator and board member Jeanie Martin Carter.
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Born in 1933, Jeanie Martin Carter grew up in Bartow County, Georgia, where she attended Noble Hill Elementary School and Summer Hill High School. After earning an education degree from Morris Brown College, she taught at Marietta’s Lemon Street Elementary School, Wright Street School, and Hickory Hills Elementary, where she was the first black teacher on staff. After earning a master’s degree at Emory University, she taught at Park Street Elementary School and Pine Forest Elementary School before retiring in 1991. Carter would go on to serve as the first black woman on the school board from 1993 to 2009.
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2020-06-25T02:00:19Z
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Kennesaw State University Archives
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Carter, Jeanie Martin., Lemon Street Schools (Marietta, Ga.), Marietta City Schools (Marietta, Ga.), Marietta (Ga.) -- History., Oral histories.
Citation
Jennie Martin Carter Interview, 2020-01-29, The Lemon Street Schools Oral History Collection, Marietta City Schools, 2020, KSU/14/05/04, Kennesaw State University.