Interview with Charles Vance, March 4, 1984
Project: Goin' North: Tales of the Great Migration Oral History Project
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Born in Mobile, Alabama, Charles Vance (1902-1988) was just nine when his mother died and his father relocated the family to Whistler, Alabama. Unable to support his family earning two dollars a day, Vance?s father moved North in 1917. Vance?s father told Charles not to follow and that he would send for him. The next day, Vance, then just fifteen years old, struck out on his own and spent the next six years working in the coke ovens, levee camps, and railroad track crews in the South before making his own way to Philadelphia in 1923.Interview Accession
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African Americans--Education. Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social conditions. African Americans--Southern States. Depressions--1929. Race discrimination. World War, 1914-1918 African American families African Americans--Conduct of life. African Americans--Economic conditions. African Americans--Social conditions. United States--Race relations. Racism African Americans--Employment. World War, 1939-1945Interview Rights
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Vance, Charles Interview by Charles Hardy, III. 04 Mar. 1984. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Vance, C. (1984, March 04). 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.
Vance, Charles, interview by Charles Hardy, III. March 04, 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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