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Collection Number: 04608

Collection Title: Oral histories of low income and minority women, 1970s-1992

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Size 57 items
Abstract Transcriptions of interviews in the Oral Histories of Low Income and Minority Women project of the Southwest Institute for Research on Women at the University of Arizona in collaboration with the Schlesinger Library on the History of American Women at Radcliffe College with funding from the Ford Foundation. The fifty-six interviews, with transcriptions ranging in length from 17 to over 2,000 pages, were conducted by Fran Leeper Buss during the 1970s and 1980s. Interviewees, some of whom chose to remain anonymous, include three Asian-Americans, twelve African-Americans, and six Native-Americans. The women resided in fourteen states: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Texas in the South; Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Wyoming in the West; Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin in the Midwest. Appalachia is represented by women from Kentucky and Tennessee. The subjects covered document all aspects of these women's lives--their personal lives, their attitudes and interactions with members of their families and others in their communities, and their feelings about their status at the time of the interview and about their prospects for the future. An extensive subject index is provided. The Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is one of seven depositories for this material; the original tapes and other materials are housed at the Schlesinger Library.
Creator Southwest Institute for Research on Women (U.S.)
Curatorial Unit University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language English
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No restrictions. Open for research.
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Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], in the Oral histories of low income and minority women #4608, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Acquisitions Information
Gift of the Southwest Institute for Research on Women, University of Arizona, in February 1992 (Acc. 92032).
Sensitive Materials Statement
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Transcriptions of interviews in the Oral Histories of Low Income and Minority Women project of the Southwest Institute for Research on Women at the University of Arizona in collaboration with the Schlesinger Library on the History of American Women at Radcliffe College with funding from the Ford Foundation. The fifty-six interviews, with transcriptions ranging in length from 17 to over 2,000 pages, were conducted by Fran Leeper Buss during the 1970s and 1980s. Interviewees, some of whom chose to remain anonymous, include three Asian-Americans, twelve African-Americans, and six Native-Americans. The women resided in fourteen states: Alabama, Georgia, Mississippi, and Texas in the South; Arizona, California, New Mexico, and Wyoming in the West; Illinois, Minnesota, and Wisconsin in the Midwest. Appalachia is represented by women from Kentucky and Tennessee. The subjects covered document all aspects of these women's lives--their personal lives, their attitudes and interactions with members of their families and others in their communities, and their feelings about their status at the time of the interview and about their prospects for the future. An extensive subject index is provided. The Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is one of seven depositories for this material; the original tapes and other materials are housed at the Schlesinger Library.

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Box 1

Index to Interviews

Interviews Allen, Marie

Interviews Ana from El Salvador

Interviews Aragon, Elena

Interviews Aragon, Jesusita (3 folders)

Interviews Armijo, Stella

Interviews Banker, Lily

Interviews Berklich, Helen (2 folders)

Interviews Bower, Dr.

Interviews Bowman, Sophie

Interviews Carmona, Gloria Ann

Interviews Cubias, Daisy

Interviews Dakota, Cynthia

Interviews Davis, Ella

Interviews Deer, Jenny

Interviews Dixon, Betty

Interviews Flatly, Rhonda

Interviews Foster, Opal

Interviews Franklin, Judith

Interviews Germaine, Bonne

Interviews Gonzalez, Bonita

Interviews Hanson, Doris

Interviews Hunter, Josephine

Interviews Hustede, Emma Jo

Interviews Jackson, Nancy

Interviews Johnson, Sarah

Interviews Jones, Wanda

Interviews Klitzkie, Dorothy

Interviews Leache, Darlene

Interviews Lopez, Mary

Box 2

Interviews Mathias, Ann (2 folders)

Interviews McEwin, Mildred

Interviews Meyer, Susan

Interviews Morgan, Lucy

Interviews Muhar, Maggie

Interviews Ngeth, Chin

Interviews Ortega, Maria Elena (16 folders)

Box 3

Interviews Parsons, Ruth

Interviews Powers, Ruby

Interviews Pyawasit, Irene

Interviews Rackley, Edith

Interviews Ramon, Esperanza

Interviews Rhymes, Kasandra

Interviews Richards, Lee

Interviews Robinson, Mary

Interviews Sanchez, Carolita

Interviews Schmidt, Jo

Interviews Smith, Viola

Interviews Stokes, Willa Mae

Interviews Sullivan, Helen

Interviews Swanson, Florence

Interviews Tafolla, Consuela

Interviews Tsukamoto, Mary

Interviews Watkins, Marra

Interviews Williams, Cynthia

Interviews Yang, Ka

Interviews Young, Sarita

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