[Portrait of Geneva A. Brown]

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Photograph of Geneva A. Brown, who is sitting, wearing a dark-colored suit, and visible from the chest up. The text under the photograph reads, "Mrs Geneva A. Brown Social Studies."

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Photograph of Geneva A. Brown, who is sitting, wearing a dark-colored suit, and visible from the chest up. The text under the photograph reads, "Mrs Geneva A. Brown Social Studies."

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1 photograph : b&w

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Mrs. Geneva A. Brown taught for forty-seven years, forty-two of them in Harrison County. She was born in Texas in 1909 into a teaching family. Her collegiate career included Bishop College, the University of Wisconsin, Penn State, North Texas State, and Prairie View. After brief periods at Idabel, Oklahoma and Mt. Pleasant, she began to teach in a one-room school in Harrison County. When the county schools were consolidated, she was teaching at the New Town School in Marshall. Later she transferred to Pemberton High School, and finally finished her career as a director of testing and counselor. Her picture is from a Pemberton High School yearbook, probably from 1950-1953. Although she was a wife and mother, she participated in numerous civic and church activities.

Slide of a yearbook photograph. Mrs. Brown was interviewed July 2, 1976 for The Black Citizen and American Democracy: Black Culture in Harrison County, Past, Present, and Future (Marshall Public Library, 1976), a collection of oral history interviews and other biographical and historical materials about African-American history in Harrison County. The volume is in the Marshall Public Library collection.

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  • Sept. 14, 2006, 9:24 p.m.

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[Portrait of Geneva A. Brown], photograph, Date Unknown; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth18059/: accessed June 10, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Marshall Public Library.

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