Interview with Otis A. Singletary, January 11, 1988
Project: University of Kentucky Presidents' Journal: Otis A. Singletary Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Dr. Singletary recalls when he began to establish himself as a professor. He remembers his first teaching experience as a teaching assistant at Louisiana State University. Upon completing his Ph.D qualifying examinations in the spring of 1951, he was immediately called back into active duty in the Navy to serve in the Korean War. Afterward, he moved his family to New Jersey where they lived until 1954 when he was offered a teaching position at the University of Texas at Austin.While in Austin, he joined several historical associations and continued his research on the Negro militia by visiting archives in Tennessee, South Carolina, and Arkansas. Singletary begins to discuss the role universities play in society and the significance of money, status, and size. He also mentions the process of submitting his dissertation for review and having it approved.
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Singletary, Otis A. Interview by Terry L. Birdwhistell. 11 Jan. 1988. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Singletary, O.A. (1988, January 11). Interview by T. L. Birdwhistell. University of Kentucky Presidents' Journal: Otis A. Singletary Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Singletary, Otis A., interview by Terry L. Birdwhistell. January 11, 1988, University of Kentucky Presidents' Journal: Otis A. Singletary Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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