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Podcast: Other Voices
Episode: Wilma Beason Jenssen — “An Iowa Teacher Blossoms in Harlem”
Description: Wilma Beason Jenssen was Mrs. Beason, teaching in Harlem’s Public School 92, when she was featured with student Kime Holman in this 1966 LOOK magazine photo essay, “Life Without Father.” Photographer Bob Adelman wrote, “Kime’s school, buried in the Harlem ghetto, is as segregated as any of its Mississippi counterparts.” Jenssen, who was raised in the midwest and now lives in Guilderland has, at age 92, published her life story, “An Iowa Teacher Blossoms in Harlem.” In this week’s podcast, she talks about the changes happening in Harlem in the 1960s and happening nationwide today with calls for social justice. As a sing...