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Black Women Oral History Project Interviews, 1976–1981

The Black Women Oral History Project collection consists of audiotapes and transcripts of the oral histories of 72 African-American women from across the United States. The interviews discuss family background, marriages, childhood, education and training, significant influences affecting their choice of primary career or activity, professional and voluntary accomplishments, union activities, the ways in which being black and a woman had affected their options and the choices made.

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The Black Women Oral History Project collection consists of audiotapes and transcripts of the oral histories of 72 African-American women from across the United States. The interviews discuss family background, marriages, childhood, education and training, significant influences affecting their choice of primary career or activity, professional and voluntary accomplishments, union activities, the ways in which being black and a woman had affected their options and the choices made.

Creator

Letitia Woods Brown

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https://guides.library.harvard.edu/schlesinger_bwohp

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Schlesinger Library on the History of Women in America, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University

Language

English

URL

https://guides.library.harvard.edu/schlesinger_bwohp

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Letitia Woods Brown, “Black Women Oral History Project Interviews, 1976–1981,” 

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