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Object Description
Interview no. | K-1084 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | K.1.2. Southern Communities: Individual Projects: Coastal Carolina |
Project description | Interviews, 1994-1999, that focus on coastal North Carolina counties where World War II defense industries and military bases sparked rapid and unprecedented change. The coast, previously a land of sharecroppers, small farmers, fishing villages, and timber camps, was transformed as thousands of civilian workers poured into industry and women and African Americans entered skilled occupations for the first time. |
Date | 30 June 1999 |
Interviewee | Lucas, Shirley Wade, 1926- |
Interviewee occupation |
Homemakers Volunteers |
Interviewee DOB | 1926 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Glusman, Melynn. |
Abstract | Shirley Lucas begins the interview by describing her childhood in Morehead, N.C. in the 1920s and 1930s. She discusses some Christmas traditions she shared with her church and her family, her father’s work as a barber, and different household chores with which she and her siblings helped her mother. She reflects on memories of her brother, who was mentally handicapped, and the different experiences he had, including starting the Station Club for mentally handicapped adults. Lucas spent 20 years working in public schools, including many classes with special education children. She goes on to discuss her adult life, which includes her husband and her children, and various volunteer positions throughout her community. Lucas has an interest in genealogy, and she discusses some of her family’s background and memories of distant relatives. |
Citation | Interview with [interviewee name] by [interviewer name], [interview date] [interview number], in the Southern Oral History Program Collection #4007, Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. |
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Interview no. | K1084_Transcript |