Audio produced by StoryCorps Studios in partnership with GBH Boston.
In this recording, former Boston Public School teachers and colleagues Lyda Peters and Ruth Rosner discuss their time teaching in Roxbury. Lyda recalls the relative ease of becoming a teacher at majority-Black schools – a major problem identified at the time by the NAACP – and Ruth describes her methods as a “radical”, devoted to providing quality education in defiance of the racism of other white teachers.
Audio recorded on May 16, 2023 at GBH in Boston.
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