Alice Pretlow Oral History

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Videotaped oral history interview with Alice Pretlow. As a fourth grader in 1965, Pretlow was among the first students to attend an integrated school in Batesville, Mississippi. She recalls harassment and bullying by white students on the school bus. Pretlow later visited Washington, D.C. during the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign. Interview conducted over Zoom on September 6, 2022 by Stephen Fagin. The interview is fifty-six minutes long.

Object Details

Object title:

Alice Pretlow Oral History

Date:

09/06/2022

Terms:

Interviews

Civil rights

Oral histories

Protests

Poor People's Campaign

Childhood

Student

Integration

Washington, D.C.

Batesville

Civil Rights and Social Activism (OHC)

Dallas and 1960s History and Culture (OHC)

Childhood Recollections (OHC)

Medium:

Born digital (.m4a file), Born digital (.mp4 file), Born digital (.vtt file)

Dimensions:

Duration: 56 Minutes

Credit line:

Oral History Collection/The Sixth Floor Museum at Dealey Plaza

Object number:

2022.001.0064

Curatorial Note:

In 2021, Alice Tucker Pretlow wrote an essay entitled "My Integration SuperHero," which detailed her experiences attending an integrated school in Batesville, Mississippi, beginning in the fourth grade in 1965. The essay may be read in full here: Civil Rights Movement -- My Integration SuperHero (crmvet.org). -- Stephen Fagin, Curator