Interview with Jemima Natt Roberts, February 20, 2014
Project: African Immigrants in the Bluegrass Oral History Project
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Jemima describes her childhood and schooling until her high school graduation in 1965 at age 20. Given to her childless aunt and uncle at about age 7, she lived in several different parts of Liberia as her uncle moved with the army. She eventually went to boarding school in her early teens. She fell in love with the biology teacher/farm manager/dean of boys. They married and moved to Cuttington College in 1965. Teaching elementary school, managing the college food service, serving as Dean of Women, all while raising four children and earning a B.A. in political science occupied her life until the war in 1989. She had visited the U.S. twice before coming to the U.S. to live with her son in 2003. She talks about adjusting to the U.S. as an older person.Interview Accession
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Roberts, Jemima Natt Interview by Angene H. Wilson. 20 Feb. 2014. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Roberts, J.N. (2014, February 20). Interview by A. H. Wilson. African Immigrants in the Bluegrass Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Roberts, Jemima Natt, interview by Angene H. Wilson. February 20, 2014, African Immigrants in the Bluegrass Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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