Interview with Hughsey Childs, October 23, 1984
Project: Goin' North: Tales of the Great Migration Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Hughsey Childs (1899-1986), a migrant from Abbeville, South Carolina, to Philadelphia during the late 1910s, recalls in this 1984 oral history interview details from his work, faith, career, and family. Drawing from personal experiences laboring in cotton fields and factories, encountering racism on a daily basis, and helping to create a new church, Childs is able to evoke the atmosphere of the era by narrating the stories of his rich tapestry of a life, which while distinct, shares similarities with many African Americans? transitions during the years of the First Great Migration.Interview Accession
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African Americans--Education. African Americans--Civil rights African American churches African Americans--Southern States. African Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia. African Americans--Employment. African Americans--Conduct of life. United States--Race relations. African Americans--Economic conditions. African Americans--Social conditions. Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social conditions. Integration African Americans--Segregation African Americans--Politics and government. African Americans--Religion.Interview Rights
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Childs, Hughsey Interview by Charles Hardy, III. 23 Oct. 1984. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Childs, H. (1984, October 23). Interview by C. H. III. Goin' North: Tales of the Great Migration Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Childs, Hughsey, interview by Charles Hardy, III. October 23, 1984, Goin' North: Tales of the Great Migration Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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