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Interview no. | G-0271 |
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 | 12 February 1980 |
Interviewee | Newby, Mary Lawson, 1890-. |
Interviewee occupation | Unknown |
Interviewee DOB | 1890 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Wilson, Emily Herring. |
Abstract | Mary Lawson Newby was born in 1890 Durham County, North Carolina, and, at the age of thirty-one, married Dangerfield Newby, Jr.—a widower and the namesake of the first black man to die at Harper’s Ferry. Her interview addresses her upbringing, young adult life, and her later life as a married woman. 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 Mary Lawson Newby by Emily Herring Wilson, 12 February 1980 G-0271 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. | G0271_Audio_1 |