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Betty Shannon Gibson interview
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- November 2009 (Vervaardig)
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This interview with Betty Shannon Gibson was conducted in November 2009. Ms. Gibson spent her childhood in the Bronx, New York, but in 1950 moved to Tallahassee, Florida. She became a media specialist in different schools in the Miami area, and lived in South Miami with her basketball player and later vice-mayor of South Miami husband. She witnessed the changing race relations in the U.S. during the past sixty years, providing insight as to the process from strict segregation to desegregation and a more democratic America.