Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2011-004
Marilyn Lashley served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Liberia from 1978 to 1980 as a teacher trainer. She joined during a period when Peace Crops was enrolling families with children. Marilyn and her husband (both teacher trainers) and two young children attended training at Peabody College in Nashville, Tennessee, and in Liberia. Lashley was first assigned to Kakata Rural Teacher Training Institute. After one term, she separated from her husband and transferred to Gbarnga to work on a curriculum materials development project. Mid-service Lashley transferred again to Monrovia and then was forced to evacuate from Liberia with her children in 1980 due to a coup and civil unrest. In the interview, she shares her experiences as an African American female teacher. Interviewed and recorded by Robert Klein, October 10, 2010. 2 tapes (web streaming files combined into 1 file).