Interview with Bessie Yancey, March 13, 1984
Project: Goin' North: Tales of the Great Migration Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Born in Boykins, Virginia, Bessie Yancey (1898-1997) grew up on a farm where her family raised a variety of crops, including cotton and sugar corn. Yancey was the seventh of twelve children. During World War I when her older brothers went to fight in Europe, Bessie and her sisters and younger brothers worked the farm with their father. Disliking the corrupt business dealings her father encountered as a Black man in the South, she left for Philadelphia in 1918. There she worked as nursemaid for a White family and was an active member of a church.Interview Accession
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African Americans--Southern States. Traditional farming African Americans--Employment. United States--Race relations. Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social conditions. African Americans--Recreation Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social life and customs. African Americans--Social conditions. African Americans--Social life and customs. African American churches African Americans--Religion. Migration, Internal.Interview Rights
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Yancey, Bessie Interview by Charles Hardy, III. 13 Mar. 1984. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Yancey, B. (1984, March 13). 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.
Yancey, Bessie, interview by Charles Hardy, III. March 13, 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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