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Interview no. | G-0273 |
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 | 1979 |
Interviewee | Reid, Elizabeth Moore, 1910- |
Interviewee occupation | Musicians |
Interviewee DOB | 1910 |
Interviewee ethnicity | African Americans |
Interviewer | Wilson, Emily Herring. |
Abstract | In her interview, Elizabeth Moore Reid discusses living with her husband, Fred Reid, and their decision to move back onto the mountain where they live in a small cabin perched on the side of a rutted road. During the interview, both musicians played for the interviewer and discussed their marriage, their eight children, as well as their previous professions. She recalls playing music at all-night socials when she was younger and describes how she met her husband. She also discusses her involvement in the record, “Music from the Hills of Caldwell County,” which she participated in making with other family members. 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 Elizabeth Moore Reid by Emily Herring Wilson, 1979 G-0273 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. | G0273_Audio_1 |