Edwards, Margaret, 1950-

Authoritative Name:

Edwards, Margaret, 1950-

Biography:

Margaret Edwards was born into a large sharecropping family in Ayden, North Carolina, in 1950. She grew up Baptist but converted to the Pentecostal Holiness Church after becoming an adult and marrying at the age of nineteen. By the 1990s, Edwards had become disillusioned with Pentecostalism and in 1998, Edwards converted to the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.is an interviewer with the Oral Histories of the American South project with Documenting the American South at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Associated Subjects:

Edwards, Margaret, 1950-

Archival Collections And Reference Resources:

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Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)

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Oral history interview with Margaret Edwards, January 20, 2002

Creator:

Edwards, Margaret, 1950-

Date of Original:

2002-01-20

Collection:

Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement

Contributing Institution:

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)