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Interview with Janie Baker Bowers part 1, 2008 October 20

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Savannah (Ga.). Department of Cultural Affairs

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Interview with Janie Louise Baker Bowers, October 20, 2008. Part 1 of 2. She talks about her family, education, working as a teacher, and living in East Savannah. She discusses teaching at the Dekle Branch school, a one-room schoolhouse in Metter, Georgia, and at Montieth Elementary, East Broad Elementary, and Haynes Elementary schools in Savannah. Also includes discussion on the Powell Laboratory School, the Ambrose shrimp factory, and the 1940 hurricane that struck Savannah.
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Bowers, Janie Baker, 1928
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City of Savannah Municipal Archives

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Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. African American Teachers
  2. African Americans
  3. Baker Family
  4. Bowers, Janie Baker, 1928
  5. City And Town Life
  6. Georgia
  7. Georgia State College (Savannah, Ga.)
  8. Hurricanes
  9. Savannah
  10. Schools
  11. Shrimp Industry

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