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Interview no. | K-1026 |
Restrictions | No restrictions. Open to research. |
Project | K.1.9. Southern Communities: Individual Projects: Wilson County During the Depression |
Project description | Interviews conducted in 2008 with white residents of Wilson County, N.C., who were children or teenagers during the 1930s in middle- and upper-class families. As the world's largest tobacco market, the town prospered economically while most of the country suffered through economic crisis. Interviewees describe their perceptions of the Great Depression, ways in which their families dealt with changes in their lifestyles, childhood pastimes, friends, families, and memories of Wilson in the 1930s and 1940s. |
Date | March 08 2008 |
Interviewee | Brett, Lawrence. |
Interviewee occupation | Health services administrators |
Interviewee DOB | 1919 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Boykin, J. Robert, III. |
Abstract | Lawrence Brett, Jr., was born September 5, 1919, in Wilson, North Carolina. He was an only child. His mother, Mildred Roney Brett, was from the Wilson area and was a homemaker. His father, Lawrence Brett, was born in Lawrence, Kansas, and was a civil engineer who at one point surveyed the Everglades. Brett describes the families living in his neighborhood, which included the family of Wilson’s mayor. For fun, he and his friends went to the movies, built models, rode bicycles, and played “Rebel guns.” He remembers the Depression as a hard time; his father was forced to sell his business and banks closed. People would sometimes knock on the back door asking for food. During the Depression his family had a garden in the backyard, as well as pigs and goats. Brett graduated from Coon High School in 1935. He later attended both Duke University and Northwestern University and worked as a hospital administrator. |
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. | K1026_Audio |