Deborah Jane Tynes Interview Clip

Deborah Jane Tynes Interview Clip

Audio clip from interview of Deborah Jane Tynes '75 by Alexandra Ines Huamán '26

Simmons University

2023

Deborah Jane Tynes
Alexandra Ines Huamán

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Oral history interview recording

English

audio

DT: It was- it was- it was, that was our, we- and we wore African dashikis, and it was, we used to march around Harvard Yard to protest things in front of Memorial Chapel. The protest, you know, uh, you know black studies being taught at uh, university and Harvard you know, MIT or this place would be. We'd be over there. Our choir would march around in the yard with signs, and we were radical, quite a radical little group of folks.

AH: Yeah, would you say you were very politically active?

DT: You know, we stood up for what we believed in also at Simmons. Yeah, we- we did the same. Yeah, the system definitely challenged, and that's why, there there are as many African-american trustees as there are today, and we- we have our first African American President. Because of the legacy that was built, uh 50 years ago. Yes, when our world came to change a great deal.

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