Interview with Merrily Ann Orsini, January 25, 2021
Project: University of Kentucky: The Turbulent Years (1965-1975) Oral History Project
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Merrily Orsini graduated from North Little Rock High School in North Little Rock, Arkansas in 1965 and enrolled at Louisiana State University that fall where she spent two years before transferring to the University of Kentucky in 1967. She earned a Bachelor's degree in Political Science in 1969. She was the first woman to run for Student Government president in U.K.'s history in 1968. In this interview she discusses growing up in North Little Rock, Arkansas during the Civil Rights Movement and the Cold War.Interview Accession
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Orsini, Merrily Ann Interview by Jeffrey Suchanek. 25 Jan. 2021. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Orsini, M.A. (2021, January 25). Interview by J. Suchanek. University of Kentucky: The Turbulent Years (1965-1975) Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Orsini, Merrily Ann, interview by Jeffrey Suchanek. January 25, 2021, University of Kentucky: The Turbulent Years (1965-1975) Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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