African American children
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Maren Jensen Letter from Ysleta, Texas
Collection
Identifier: MSS-4827
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of a handwritten letter dated May 19, 1919, from Maren Jensen, a teacher working in Ysleta, Texas (near El Paso), to Paul Ranch in Toledo, Ohio. Writing shortly after World War I, Jensen reflects candidly on her experiences teaching a racially diverse student body composed of African American and Mexican American children in the Texas-Mexico borderlands. The letter contains detailed observations of the challenges and dynamics of multicultural education in a...
Dates:
1919