Interview with Jesse Harris, Mattie Harris, January 26, 1992
Project: Childhood in Kentucky Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Family backgrounds (Harris family history)-- Free movies outside courthouse-- School-- Lincoln Institute-- Sense of community-- Adult's close oversight of children-- Church and gospel singing-- Changes and farm work-- Changes in children's lives-- Mother b. 1917-- son b. 1942 African-American-- Race relations-- Decline in African-American-- Population in New Castle extended family support systems-- Odd Fellows picnic-- Henry County-- Their father's share croppers-- Jesses father became factory worker.Interview Accession
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Mattie Harris
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Harris, Jesse Interview by Louise Chawla. 26 Jan. 1992. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Harris, J. (1992, January 26). Interview by L. Chawla. Childhood in Kentucky Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Harris, Jesse, interview by Louise Chawla. January 26, 1992, Childhood in Kentucky Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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