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Object Description
Interview no. | K-1079 |
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 | 28 June 1999 |
Interviewee | Femia, Geraldine W., 1921- |
Interviewee occupation |
Homemakers Textile workers |
Interviewee DOB | 1921 |
Interviewee ethnicity | Whites |
Interviewer | Glusman, Melynn. |
Abstract | Gerry Femia was born in Pitt County, N.C. in 1921. Her father was a tobacco farmer, and she describes her family and different aspects of childhood, such as helping around the farm, playing sports in school, and family holidays. She also notes her family’s Baptist background. Upon graduating high school, she worked in a textile factory in Morehead City, N.C. She married a man who was in the Marine Corps, and she shares memories of his time overseas in World War II and their time at the United Service Organizations in Morehead City, N.C. She describes their children and different activities they did as a family in the 1940s and 1950s. |
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. | K1079_Transcript |