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Interview no. | G-0274 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | G.3. Southern Women: Hope and Dignity: Older Black Women of the South |
Project description | Interviews, conducted between 1979 and 1981 by Emily Herring Wilson, for her book Hope and Dignity: Older Black Women of the South. Overall, Wilson interviewed more than forty older black women in North Carolina and selected twenty-seven for inclusion in the publication. The interviewees include gospel singers, midwives, teachers, ministers, college professors, civil rights organizers, artists, and musicians. |
Date | 20 October 1980 |
Interviewee | Roundtree, Eva Hill, 1906-2002. |
Interviewee occupation | Singers |
Interviewee DOB | 1906 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Wilson, Emily Herring. |
Abstract | Eva Hill Roundtree is a gospel singer interviewed in her home in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In her interview, she discusses her mother, Retta Hill, as an ordained minister in the Holiness Church as well as her own decision to join the church at the age of eleven. She recalls her mother’s last sermon and singing with her mother and sister. She discusses the formation of their singing group, “The Smiling Four,” and their continuation after the passing of her mother. In her discussion of music and singing, Mrs. Roundtree describes the joy and peace she feels when singing and her refusal to sing for money or fame. This interview was conducted in part for the book "Hope and Dignity: Older Black women of the South" with text by Emily Herring Wilson, photographs by Susan Mullally, and foreword by Maya Angelou, published in 1983 by Temple University Press. |
Citation | Interview with Eva Hill Roundtree by Emily Herring Wilson, 20 October 1980 G-0274 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. | G0274_Audio_1 |