| Description | In this interview, Marian Brooks Bryant discusses her early life, family background, and education attending segregated schools in Fort Worth in the 1950s and 1960s. Her father Dr. Marian Jackson Brooks was a physcian and civil rights leader in the city. After graduating valedictorian from I.M. Terrell High School, she attended TCU, and was one of the first Black undergraduates to attend after TCU lifted racial barriers in 1964. Despite excelling in mathematics and computer programming, Bryant did not have a good social experience at TCU and after three semesters transferred to Howard University where she graduated with a degree in sociology. |
