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Title: Jessie Withers oral history interview, 1979 May 22
Creator: Withers, Jessie, 1909-2006
Date Created: 1979-05-22
Subjects--Topical: Working mothers, Cooking, City and town life, Depressions
Description: Jessie Withers describes working as a cook in various establishments around Charlotte, North Carolina during the twentieth century, including Good Samaritan Hospital, Windsor's Drive-In, the Ringside Grill, St. Martin's Episcopal Church, and the E...

Title: Mary E. Nash oral history interview, 2001 November 3
Creator: Nash, Mary Ellen, 1931-2014
Date Created: 2001-11-03
Subjects--Topical: Rural families, Country life, African American families, Gardening, Family farms, Farms, Small, Neighborhoods--Social aspects, Family reunions
Description: Mary Nash recounts her childhood in rural Mecklenburg County, North Carolina and her thirty-two years living in the Wilmore neighborhood of Charlotte. Mrs. Nash describes going up on her family's small farm and discusses the various things her par...

Title: Mary Jane White oral history interview, 1979 May 24
Creator: White, Mary Jane, 1904-1987
Date Created: 1979-05-24
Subjects--Topical: Farm life, Family farms, Education, Rural
Description: Mary Jane White discusses living on a family farm in Union County, North Carolina during the early twentieth century, then moving to Charlotte, North Carolina to work in a private household in 1927. Other topics include her education in a one-room...

Title: Rosa Lee Coleman oral history interview, 1979 May 25
Creator: Coleman, Rosa Lee, 1909-1993
Date Created: 1979-05-25
Subjects--Topical: African American household employees, African Americans--Segregation, Household employees, Race discrimination, Race relations, Segregation in transportation
Description: Rosa Lee Coleman recounts her early life in Fayetteville, North Carolina, as well as her employment as a domestic service worker. As an African American, Mrs. Coleman discusses the complicated dynamics of her relationship with her white female emp...

Title: Victoria K. Moore oral history interview, 1979 May 25
Creator: Moore, Victoria K., 1911
Date Created: 1979-05-25
Subjects--Topical: Depressions, African Americans--Segregation, African American women--Employment, Families--Social life and customs, Women household employees--Social conditions
Description: Victoria K. Moore shares her memories of growing up in the South during the early 1900s and gives account of her varied experiences as a domestic worker in New York, Charlotte, North Carolina, and parts of South Carolina. Other topics discussed in...