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Ms. Sarai-Clark 4/22/03 TAPE SUMMARY Women Oral History Project Interviewed by Don Jackson SIDE A 0-1 1-4 4-5 Y2 5 V2-7 7-7 Yz 7 V2-9 9-13 Y2 13 V2-17 Yz Introduction Story of her life living in the northwest. Talking about her husband being the reason why she came to the Northwest in. She came to the Northwest in 1960. She begin teaching in 1965, and was the head of the dance program. She broke down the dance categories: Methods, philosophy, performance, etc ... Ms. Sarai-Clark tells what it was like being he head of the dance program. Said it was alright, and that the only problem was that every time somebody left the program the school never replaced them. So by the time she retired the program was gone. She has been living in the Northwest for 43 years. What her life was like and what was some things that she liked to do. Said she was very active in church. Did seminary classes. Ordain right after she retired from WSU. Was very busy must of the time. Her one daughter was named Hillary Noel WeaverHill, in which she spent time with until she went to Antioch College in Ohio. After that her daughter went to Columbia in New York and got her masters and doctrine. Her daughter was married to Joseph Hill, who was a traveling attorney. She has two children by the name ofWa'Ble Joseph and Iris Ursula. Today her daughter 17 Yz- 23 Yz 23 Yz-26 Yz 26 Yz-29 29-33 33-35 Yz 35 Yz -39 39-41 Yz teaches in Soney, Buffalo. Grandson's name Wa'Ble means eagle in Lakota language. Granddaughter's name is Iris Ursula, which means young female bear. Ms Sarai-Clark's daughter Hillary is a wonderful gardener. She raises heritage irises. I asked how do she feel being the frrst female of color to reach the rank of full professor. She said she accomplished this by doing a lot of teaching, research, service, and presentations. Her research area is in culture and movement, which she has done all over the world. She has published many articles and have done scholarly activates. That counts fro choreography and hundreds of dance productions. She feels that she has made a mark at WSU, but may be not as far as the university is concerned. Says she still hears from her students who are now CEOs, because one they have participated in a program it do make a difference in their lives. Where did she get her last name from? Clark was her maiden name and Sarai was from the Old Testament after a woman named Sara, who was a woman who changed her life and she did not want to be named Weaver anymore because this was after her divorce. Did she have any racial conflicts while she was at WSU? She said that she never saw that, and that the primary discrimination is against women in the academic world. She said that there were fewer women in the higher ranks, the salaries where lower, and she felt that these were the things that need to be addressed more than racial discrimination. How Was her life growing up living on a campus? She said that she thought it was the way that everybody lives. It was just like the kids who grow up in 41 Yz- 44 44-47 47-49 49-51 Yz 51 Yz- 52 Yz 52 Yz- 54 Pullman. You had access to things like physical facilities, like tennis courts and swimming pools. Her dad was the dean of college of education at Tuskegee, Alabama. Later he was attached to the Pentagon in WWII with the Information and Education services. Her parents names were Olivia White Feather Clark and William Arthur Clark. They were originally from South Dakota. She has traveled to Mexico, Brazil, Hong Kong, Beijing, Spain and Antarctica where she conducted research. At one time there were just a couple of hundred of them through out the world, mostly women who researched culture and movement. She discovered from her studies that people move differently. She says that the human body is the same for everybody so she wonders why there are forms of movement different. She described her story of her visit to Antarctica. She said she went ashore by a zodiac boat to the different smaller islands. She remembers traveling on a converted ice breaker. She said the scariest part of being there was that there was no identity marks, so you could easily get lost. She can speak, read and translate several different languages including: English, Lakota, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Flemish, and French. She used these languages when she did speech presentation in different countries. She also talked about her visit to Brazil. She was an organist and studied piano for 40 years, until she damaged her fmger. She liked to play tennis, but was limited to play because of the lack of tennis courts on the reservations. She was assigned to the South Dakota reservation and went where ever the bishop sent her. She taught a class called Human Rights for Indigenous People. She 54-57 Yz 57 Yz- 62 62-68 68-73 73-78 78-84 also enjoyed hiking and walking her dog. She remembers the frrst black basketball player at WSU. There were only 35 minorities. There were no blacks on the baseball team and six on the football team. The school went on strike for the rights to establish minority programs. Today she is the Oepstical pastor volunteer at the Common Monastery at Washington State. She received the Rosa Parks Human Life Award in 2001, for her support in human rights, not only for ethnic people, but for gays and people of different religions. She was the only person of color to even be a clergy. She was too busy and tied up in work to see the racial conflicts. Students never told her about any racial comments. She moved to Idaho after she got divorced in 1982. She said a lot has changed for the better for the minorities in this area. I told Ms. Sarai-Clark about when I went to Lewiston and how I experienced racism. She said that she has heard of some cases like this. She also said their Human Rights Task Force would bring some of these cases up because they had connections with the police. She went back over her spending 20 years of studying piano and then switching to the organ. She still has an organ in her house and plays it at church. When she was young she had a student pilot license at the age of 14. She also used to drive a motorcycle to the airport. She said that she got tired of flying and had to learn to jump out of airplanes for safety use. When she was in Russia she has hospitalized. They did not expect her to live. She also traveled to Antarctica for fun. She observed 17 different species of penguins. She went to Poland to a research station. She said the planes were red so you could see them in the snow. 84-90 Side B 0-4 4-10 10-17 17-28 She said that she didn't experience any racial conflicts in the Northwest, but said that she did when she was teaching in Louisiana and Florida. She told stories of racial conflicts. She talked about meeting Buddy Young, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., Paul Robinson, Jr., who was the frrst American football player for the Oreos, the folktale singing group called the Weavers, Langston Hughes, The Tuskegee Airmen, and Martin Luther King, Jr. She told the story of how Martin Luther King could bring people of all color together through his words. She tells another story of a boy who was killed for whistling at a white woman. I told her a racial story that had happened in Mississippi in the old days and how they were bringing up old trials now because of new evidence. She fells that she has accomplished everything that she has wanted in life while living in the Northwest. She talks about how she enjoys giving back to the community. I asked her questions about her dad and their life when she was young. She said that her dad taught a lot and that her mom died in 1997. Her dad died in 1988. I asked about her mom's life after her husband's death. I told her how Richard Wright lived in my neighborhood and how my hometown, Natchez, was a slave port, which is today a park. I told her how it's still the same today. I also told her how living the south has made be to be a better man, and how I moved to San Diego, California. I thanked her for letting me interview her and explained to her why I was taking this class.
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Title | Sarai-Clark, Wilhelmina Oral History Interview, 2003 |
Interviewer | Jackson, Don |
Date | 2003-04-22 |
Description | 68 minute oral history with Wilhelmina Sarai-Clark, conducted for a Women in the West (HIST 398 course at Washington State University). The daughter of an academic, she was Lakota Indian but her parents concealed their identities because of the social climate. As a child, her family traveled around the world and she describes her experiences with racism and discrimination. She moved to Pullman, Washington in 1960 because her husband took a job as a Spanish professor at Washington State University. She says that she was the first woman of color hired as a full professor, at WSU. She talks about becoming head of the dance department and the places she has traveled as an adult. she retired from WSU and became a pastor. |
Subject | Discrimination; Economic & social conditions; Military service; Education |
Coverage | North and Central America--United States--Alabama--Macon County--Tuskegee; North and Central America--United States--Washington--Whitman County--Pullman |
Type | Sound |
Genre | Interviews |
Publisher | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc |
Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
Rights Notes | In copyright. Item is in copyright until 95 years after 2011 publication date. |
Identifier | ua262b07f70 |
Source | Is found in Archives 262, Women in the West Oral Histories https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/ua262.htm at Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc |
Holding Institution | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries |
Contributors | Digitization and description funded through a National Endowment for the Humanities We the People grant for Washington Womens History to the Washington Womens History Consortium, a part of the Washington State Historical Society. |
Language | English |
Digitization | Original audio cassettes were converted to wav files using Audacity and a USBPre interface. Mp3 files were then created from the wav files for online access. Film clips were created as mpeg-4 files using Adobe Premiere Elements 9 to add selected images to the wav audio files. Print documents were scanned to pdf format using a Xerox Workcentre 5030 copier/scanner. |
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Title | ua262b07f70_Abstract |
Full Text | Ms. Sarai-Clark 4/22/03 TAPE SUMMARY Women Oral History Project Interviewed by Don Jackson SIDE A 0-1 1-4 4-5 Y2 5 V2-7 7-7 Yz 7 V2-9 9-13 Y2 13 V2-17 Yz Introduction Story of her life living in the northwest. Talking about her husband being the reason why she came to the Northwest in. She came to the Northwest in 1960. She begin teaching in 1965, and was the head of the dance program. She broke down the dance categories: Methods, philosophy, performance, etc ... Ms. Sarai-Clark tells what it was like being he head of the dance program. Said it was alright, and that the only problem was that every time somebody left the program the school never replaced them. So by the time she retired the program was gone. She has been living in the Northwest for 43 years. What her life was like and what was some things that she liked to do. Said she was very active in church. Did seminary classes. Ordain right after she retired from WSU. Was very busy must of the time. Her one daughter was named Hillary Noel WeaverHill, in which she spent time with until she went to Antioch College in Ohio. After that her daughter went to Columbia in New York and got her masters and doctrine. Her daughter was married to Joseph Hill, who was a traveling attorney. She has two children by the name ofWa'Ble Joseph and Iris Ursula. Today her daughter 17 Yz- 23 Yz 23 Yz-26 Yz 26 Yz-29 29-33 33-35 Yz 35 Yz -39 39-41 Yz teaches in Soney, Buffalo. Grandson's name Wa'Ble means eagle in Lakota language. Granddaughter's name is Iris Ursula, which means young female bear. Ms Sarai-Clark's daughter Hillary is a wonderful gardener. She raises heritage irises. I asked how do she feel being the frrst female of color to reach the rank of full professor. She said she accomplished this by doing a lot of teaching, research, service, and presentations. Her research area is in culture and movement, which she has done all over the world. She has published many articles and have done scholarly activates. That counts fro choreography and hundreds of dance productions. She feels that she has made a mark at WSU, but may be not as far as the university is concerned. Says she still hears from her students who are now CEOs, because one they have participated in a program it do make a difference in their lives. Where did she get her last name from? Clark was her maiden name and Sarai was from the Old Testament after a woman named Sara, who was a woman who changed her life and she did not want to be named Weaver anymore because this was after her divorce. Did she have any racial conflicts while she was at WSU? She said that she never saw that, and that the primary discrimination is against women in the academic world. She said that there were fewer women in the higher ranks, the salaries where lower, and she felt that these were the things that need to be addressed more than racial discrimination. How Was her life growing up living on a campus? She said that she thought it was the way that everybody lives. It was just like the kids who grow up in 41 Yz- 44 44-47 47-49 49-51 Yz 51 Yz- 52 Yz 52 Yz- 54 Pullman. You had access to things like physical facilities, like tennis courts and swimming pools. Her dad was the dean of college of education at Tuskegee, Alabama. Later he was attached to the Pentagon in WWII with the Information and Education services. Her parents names were Olivia White Feather Clark and William Arthur Clark. They were originally from South Dakota. She has traveled to Mexico, Brazil, Hong Kong, Beijing, Spain and Antarctica where she conducted research. At one time there were just a couple of hundred of them through out the world, mostly women who researched culture and movement. She discovered from her studies that people move differently. She says that the human body is the same for everybody so she wonders why there are forms of movement different. She described her story of her visit to Antarctica. She said she went ashore by a zodiac boat to the different smaller islands. She remembers traveling on a converted ice breaker. She said the scariest part of being there was that there was no identity marks, so you could easily get lost. She can speak, read and translate several different languages including: English, Lakota, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Flemish, and French. She used these languages when she did speech presentation in different countries. She also talked about her visit to Brazil. She was an organist and studied piano for 40 years, until she damaged her fmger. She liked to play tennis, but was limited to play because of the lack of tennis courts on the reservations. She was assigned to the South Dakota reservation and went where ever the bishop sent her. She taught a class called Human Rights for Indigenous People. She 54-57 Yz 57 Yz- 62 62-68 68-73 73-78 78-84 also enjoyed hiking and walking her dog. She remembers the frrst black basketball player at WSU. There were only 35 minorities. There were no blacks on the baseball team and six on the football team. The school went on strike for the rights to establish minority programs. Today she is the Oepstical pastor volunteer at the Common Monastery at Washington State. She received the Rosa Parks Human Life Award in 2001, for her support in human rights, not only for ethnic people, but for gays and people of different religions. She was the only person of color to even be a clergy. She was too busy and tied up in work to see the racial conflicts. Students never told her about any racial comments. She moved to Idaho after she got divorced in 1982. She said a lot has changed for the better for the minorities in this area. I told Ms. Sarai-Clark about when I went to Lewiston and how I experienced racism. She said that she has heard of some cases like this. She also said their Human Rights Task Force would bring some of these cases up because they had connections with the police. She went back over her spending 20 years of studying piano and then switching to the organ. She still has an organ in her house and plays it at church. When she was young she had a student pilot license at the age of 14. She also used to drive a motorcycle to the airport. She said that she got tired of flying and had to learn to jump out of airplanes for safety use. When she was in Russia she has hospitalized. They did not expect her to live. She also traveled to Antarctica for fun. She observed 17 different species of penguins. She went to Poland to a research station. She said the planes were red so you could see them in the snow. 84-90 Side B 0-4 4-10 10-17 17-28 She said that she didn't experience any racial conflicts in the Northwest, but said that she did when she was teaching in Louisiana and Florida. She told stories of racial conflicts. She talked about meeting Buddy Young, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., Paul Robinson, Jr., who was the frrst American football player for the Oreos, the folktale singing group called the Weavers, Langston Hughes, The Tuskegee Airmen, and Martin Luther King, Jr. She told the story of how Martin Luther King could bring people of all color together through his words. She tells another story of a boy who was killed for whistling at a white woman. I told her a racial story that had happened in Mississippi in the old days and how they were bringing up old trials now because of new evidence. She fells that she has accomplished everything that she has wanted in life while living in the Northwest. She talks about how she enjoys giving back to the community. I asked her questions about her dad and their life when she was young. She said that her dad taught a lot and that her mom died in 1997. Her dad died in 1988. I asked about her mom's life after her husband's death. I told her how Richard Wright lived in my neighborhood and how my hometown, Natchez, was a slave port, which is today a park. I told her how it's still the same today. I also told her how living the south has made be to be a better man, and how I moved to San Diego, California. I thanked her for letting me interview her and explained to her why I was taking this class. |
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