Hidden Bibliographic Details
| Varying Form of Title: | History Makers video oral history with Katherine Jones
Katherine Jones
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| Other authors / contributors: | Jones, Katherine, 1936- interviewee.
Hayden, Robert C., interviewer.
Stearns, Scott, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.
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| Sound characteristics: | digital
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| Digital file characteristics: | video file
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| Notes: | Videographer, Scott Stearns.
Robert Hayden, interviewer.
Recorded Newton, Massachusetts 2004 October 14.
Vendor-supplied metadata.
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| Summary: | Civil rights activist and historian Katherine Jones was born in Harlem, New York on March 19, 1936. She grew up at Sugar Hill's famed 409 Edgecombe Avenue. She earned her B.A. degree from Mount Holyoke College in 1957. That year, Jones married Hubie Jones. They moved to Newton, Massachusetts in 1961. In 1966, Jones founded the Newton Public Schools' Metropolitan Council for Educational Opportunities (METCO) program which enrolled students of color from Boston in Newton schools. She served as the director of METCO until 1976. In 1978, Jones became the first African American elected to the Newton School Committee where she served four terms. Jones authored many pieces on familial and local history and in 2012, she published her memoir, Deeper Roots: An American Odyssey. She won a New England PEN award in 1996 and holds an M.A. degree in urban education from Simmons College and an Ed.D. degree from Harvard University.
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