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Title	Oral history interview with Mildred Owsley Buchanan, 1980 November, excerpt 09
Personal name	Buchanan, Mildred Owsley, 1902-2000--Interviews
Topical entry	Education Teachers--Tennessee--Nashville Women teachers--Tennessee--Nashville Education--Tennessee--Nashville School attendance--Tennessee--Nashville First day of school Schools--Tennessee--Nashville
Geographic entry	Nashville (Tenn.)--History--Sources Nashville (Tenn.)--Social conditions Nashville (Tenn.)--Intellectual life
Description	An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville educator Mildred Owsley Buchanan., conducted on two dates in November 1980 by Paul Clements as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Buchanan, a home economics teacher in Nashville city schools from the late 1920s through ca. 1963, discusses changes that occurred in the city schools at about the same time that she started teaching, particularly allowing married women to teach and allowing six-year-olds to attend school. She also discusses what the first day of school was like when she began teaching. The complete interview is available in the repository.
Creator	Buchanan, Mildred Owsley, 1902-2000 (Interviewee); Clements, Paul, 1947- (Interviewer)
Publisher	Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 37219
Date	1980-11
Type	Sound; Oral histories
Format	audio/mp3 (1 min., 23 sec.)
Identifier	CentIIIBuchanan2bclip1
Source	Excerpted from: CentIIIBuchanan audio cassette recording converted to mp3 format in 2006.
Language	English
Relation	Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project
Coverage	1980-1989
Rights	U.S. and international copyright laws protect this digital content, which is provided for educational purposes only and may not be downloaded, reproduced, or distributed for any other purpose without written permission. Please contact the Special Collections Division of the Nashville Public Library, 615 Church Street, Nashville, Tennessee, 37219. Telephone (615) 862-5782.
Location	Closed Stacks-CentIIIBuchanan2bclip1