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Interview no. | C-0365 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | C.14. Notable North Carolinians: Ethelene McCabe Allen |
Project description | These interviews, conducted by her daughter Barbara C. Allen, survey her family life; social relationships; educational experiences; perspective as a woman in rural southern life and southern Baptist religious experience; her travels across the United States, Canada, and Ireland; her views on the environment, child rearing, gender roles, race, population growth and changing demographics; and her experiences as a laborer in her local area's evolving farming and manufacturing economies. |
Date | 12 July 2007 |
Interviewee | Lee, Minnie Allen, 1924-2015. |
Interviewee occupation |
Homemakers Gardeners and landscapers |
Interviewee DOB | 1924 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Allen, Barbara C. (Barbara Carol), 1967- |
Abstract | In this interview Dr. Barbara Allen of LaSalle University interviews her aunt, Minnie Allen Lee of Four Oaks, N.C., to learn about her life in rural North Carolina. Mrs. Lee was born in 1924 in Four Oaks, N.C., one of four children to tobacco-farming parents. She discusses what it was like growing up on tobacco farm, including what work she and her siblings were expected to contribute, and the type of work her parents did on the farm. Mrs. Lee talks a lot about her family and has many stories of her grandparents, parents, and siblings. She talks about her father was the more loving of her two parents and that he was the one who often took care of them when they were sick; they never called a doctor and relied on home remedies. Mrs. Lee loved school and reading and her teachers wanted her to go to college. She never considered it but did go on to say that it was expected that her children would go to college. There is a small discussion of how her parents were Democrats and supported Franklin D. Roosevelt because of the programs he initiated to help people during the Great Depression. Mrs. Lee married when she was 21 and she and her husband were tenant farmers on her husband’s parents’ land for a while. Later in life, her husband became a mail carrier and she began working in a nursery (greenhouse). Finally, the interview shifts toward the current, with Mrs. Lee discussing the different crafts she’s involved in, as well as the country-wide traveling that she and her husband enjoy. |
Citation | Interview with Minnie Allen Lee by Barbara Allen, 12 July 2007 C-0365, 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. | C0365_Audio |