Indiana Disability History

Title

Bonnie Smith - "Go to School"

Subject

Education

Family

Description

“It was wonderful because he felt like he was going to school.” When Bonnie Smith’s family moved to Bloomington, Indiana in the 1960s, a minister from the First United Methodist Church knocked on her door one day informing Bonnie he had found a teacher interested in working with her young son, Brooks, who had disabilities. Bonnie took Brooks to the church five days a week every morning for lessons. Brooks finally was able to go to school just like his sisters. Bonnie Smith was interviewed in Bloomington, Indiana on February 7, 2013.

Creator

Indiana Disability History Project

Publisher

Center for Health Equity at the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community and Indiana Governor's Council for People with Disabilities

Date

2013-02-07

Contributor

Bonnie Smith - interviewee

Jennie Todd - interviewer

Peggy Holtz - videographer/editor

Rights

Relation

014-mi

014-do

Format

video/mp4

Language

English

Type

Moving Image

Identifier

014-mi-01

Access Rights

Open to all users

Bibliographic Citation

"Bonnie Smith - 'Go to School'" YouTube video, 00:02:12, interview excerpt 014-mi-01 by the Indiana Disability History Project, posted by "Indiana Disability History" on May 17, 2019,https://youtu.be/kpwUCAq8Y0E

Spatial Coverage

Indiana, Monroe County, Bloomington

Temporal Coverage

1960s