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Evelyn Choate oral history interview, 2003 February 24
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Creator
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Choate, Evelyn B., 1911-2007
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Date Created
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2003-02-24
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Subjects--Topical
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Depressions, Family farms, Farm life, Teaching, Rural schools, Amusements, Segregation in education, African Americans--Segregation, Religious gatherings, Christian life, Church history
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Description
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Evelyn Brown Choate, a retired teacher, recounts her experiences during the Great Depression as an orphan in North Carolina. Ms. Choate talks about her family's farm, attending Flora MacDonald College and teaching grade school in Fayetteville, Nor...
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Lester Youngblood oral history interview, 2003 February 22
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Creator
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Youngblood, William Lester, 1915-2012
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Date Created
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2003-02-22
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Subjects--Topical
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Depressions, Family farms, Farm life, Dairy farming, Milk trade, Cotton trade, Wages, Country life, Amusements, War, Armed Forces
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Description
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William Lester Youngblood recounts his experiences living on a cotton and dairy farm in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina during the Great Depression. He talks about how rural communities were impacted differently than the cities and describes ho...
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Mattie Creigton oral history interview, 2003 March 5
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Creator
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Creigton, Mattie, 1912-2004
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Date Created
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2003-03-05
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Subjects--Topical
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Depressions, Family farms, Farm life, City and town life, Roads--Design and construction, Amusements, Voting, Christian life
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Description
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Mattie Creighton, a lifelong Charlottean, recalls growing up during the Great Depression in Charlotte, North Carolina and working as a young woman during the 1930s and 1940s. Ms. Creighton describes her hardships during the time period including s...