Barbara Kay > Oral History
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Barbara and Ulysses Kay with composer William Schuman, President Emeritus of the Juilliard School and of Lincoln Center, May 1975
In her oral history interview, when Barbara Kay was asked about her husband's attitude to her involvement as a Freedom Rider and activist in New Jersey, she said: "an artist's wife has a very different life to live. I married a man who is an artist. He writes classical music, and he is best left alone to do his work. And if he has a wife who has imagination and needs and everyone has, it becomes difficult for her; and it was difficult for me to find a life for myself. And this is what I found. It was just a natural growth of experience. I was lucky because it was tremendous."
The link to the record for Barbara Kay’s Oral History transcript is available through:
http://oralhistoryportal.cul.columbia.edu/document.php?id=ldpd_4076977