Interview with Anna Mae Fields, May 30, 1987
Project: Women and Collective Protest Oral History Project
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Fields describes her job as a cook's assistant in Pikeville Methodist Hospital and shares the grievances that the kitchen staff listed during the strike. She recalls staying out on the picket line all night during the first night of the strike. Fields explains her role in the strike and discusses attending union meetings. She remembers balancing the strike with housework and then describes returning to work at the hospital after the strike had ended.Interview Accession
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Fields, Anna Mae Interview by Sally Ward Maggard. 30 May. 1987. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Fields, A.M. (1987, May 30). Interview by S. W. Maggard. Women and Collective Protest Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Fields, Anna Mae, interview by Sally Ward Maggard. May 30, 1987, Women and Collective Protest Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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