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Interview no. | G-0268 |
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 | 10 May 1979 |
Interviewee | Lyons, Betty Hill. |
Interviewee occupation |
Farmers Cooks |
Interviewee DOB | Unknown |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Wilson, Emily Herring. |
Abstract | Betty Hill Lyons, was interviewed in her Lewisville home, outside of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. In her interview, she discusses her family background, including her mother, who had been owned as a slave, and her father, who she believes was a free-black. Additionally, she recalls life growing up on a farm in Davie County farming and working in a small tobacco factory in Farmington until moving to Lewisville where she worked as a cook. She discusses not learning to read and write as well as her life as an active church goer who loves to sing at home. She also describes living without indoor plumbing, including drawing water from a well in front of her home. 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 Betty Hill Lyons by Emily Herring Wilson, 10 May 1979 G-0268 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. | G0268_Audio_1 |