noa_sohpcr_q-0073 q-0073 sohpcr noa yes Oral history interview with Serena Henderson Parker, April 13, 1995 Parker, Serena Henderson, 1923- McCoy, James Eddie (James Edward), 1942- African American women--North Carolina--Granville County African Americans--North Carolina--Granville County--Social life and customs Country life--North Carolina--Granville County African Americans--Education--North Carolina--Granville County Parker, Serena Henderson, 1923- Serena Henderson Parker was born in the small town of Huntsville, North Carolina, in 1923, the daughter of a sharecropper who eventually bought his own farm. Never enslaved because of their light skin, Parker's grandparents and great grandparents, though rural farmers and laborers, were educated and literate; Parker herself was educated in segregated schools and began a teaching career in 1946. In this interview, Parker remembers her childhood in rural North Carolina; recalls her education in a one-room schoolhouse; reflects on her family history, which includes brushes with slavery; and describes her rural community. This interview will be particularly useful to researchers interested in the foodways and social lives of African Americans in early and mid-twentieth-century rural North Carolina. The Civil Rights Digital Library received support from a National Leadership Grant for Libraries awarded to the University of Georgia by the Institute of Museum and Library Services for the aggregation and enhancement of partner metadata. [Chapel Hill, N.C.] : University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill. Southern Oral History Program University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project) University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library Oral histories of the American South (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)) 2007 Transcripts Sound recordings Oral histories http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/Q-0073/menu.html Text (HTML and XML/TEI source file) and audio (MP3); 2 files: ca. 157.7 kilobytes, 85.7 megabytes. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Web browser with Javascript enabled and multimedia player. MP3 format / ca. 85.7 MB, 00:46:51 Title from menu page (viewed on December 16, 2008). Interview participants: Serena Henderson Parker, interviewee; Eddie McCoy, interviewer. Duration: 00:46:51. This electronic edition is part of the UNC-Chapel Hill digital library, Documenting the American South. It is a part of the collection Oral histories of the American South. Text encoded by Jennifer Joyner. Sound recordings digitized by Aaron Smithers. Forms part of Oral histories of the American South collection. 1995-04-13 Granville County (N.C.) 20090730 104308