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| Genre/Form: | Interviews Anecdotes Biography Anecdotes |
|---|---|
| Material Type: | Biography |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Anne M Valk; Leslie Brown |
| ISBN: | 9780230619623 0230619622 9780230621527 023062152X |
| OCLC Number: | 437300339 |
| Description: | xiii, 209 p., [4] p. of plates : ill., map ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | We did well with what we had: remembering Black life behind the veil -- The foundation was there: growing up a girl in the Jim Crow South -- What is expected of you: gender and sexuality -- You are all under bondage, which is true: working lives -- A society totally our own: institutional and cultural life -- I like to get something done: fighting for social and political change -- Appendix A: List of interviews -- Appendix B: Sample edited transcript, from interview with Ila J. Blue. |
| Series Title: | Palgrave studies in oral history. |
| Responsibility: | Anne Valk and Leslie Brown. |
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Abstract:
Using first-person narratives collected through oral history interviews, this groundbreaking book collects black women's memories of their public and private lives during the period of legal segregation in the American South.
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"An indispensible contribution to African American and women's history. Essential."--"CHOICE"
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- African American women -- Southern States -- Interviews.
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- African Americans -- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
- Racism -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
- Sexism -- Southern States -- History -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
- Southern States -- Race relations -- Anecdotes.
- Southern States -- Biography -- Anecdotes.
- Southern States -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Anecdotes.
- Interviews -- Southern States.
- Oral history.