Interview with Bertha Mae Lacy, March 18, 1994
Project: Appalachia: Women Of Coal Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Lacy remarried after her first husband died from tuberculosis. Lacy describes poverty and racial segregation. Lacy attended an African American high school. She and her second husband had eleven children. They were married 46 years. Her husband came from the farm directly to his job with the railroad. Lacy discusses rationing during the war, raising hogs for meat and lard, and canning food.Interview Accession
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Appalachian Region Appalachian Region--Economic conditions Coal mines and mining--Appalachian Region Gender issues Lacy, Bertha Mae Lacy, Bertha Mae--Interviews Poverty--Appalachian Region Sexism Women coal miners Women--Appalachian Region Blacks--Segregation Stillbirth Women--Employment African Americans--Segregation African Americans--Social conditions. Norfolk and Western Railway CompanyInterview Rights
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Lacy, Bertha Mae Interview by Randall Norris. 18 Mar. 1994. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Lacy, B.M. (1994, March 18). Interview by R. Norris. Appalachia: Women Of Coal Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Lacy, Bertha Mae, interview by Randall Norris. March 18, 1994, Appalachia: Women Of Coal Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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