- Collection:
- Happiness & hard times
- Title:
- Mrs. Bessie Haygood
- Creator:
- Haygood, Bessie
Haygood, Twila - Date of Original:
- 1973
- Subject:
- Savannah (Ga.)--History--20th century
African American women--Georgia--Savannah--Interviews
Savannah (Ga.)--Race relations
African Americans--Segregation--Georgia--Savannah
African Americans--Education--Georgia--Savannah
African American churches--Georgia--Savannah
African American women--Employment--Georgia--Savannah
Hoodoo (Cult)--Georgia--Savannah
African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Savannah - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- Mrs. Haygood is a black, middle-aged wife and mother who came to Savannah when segregation was at its height. "I remember the time when the boycott was on Broughton Street we would hav sin-ins there and a lot of my people was hurt. A lot of police here were brutal to them. And I didn't like the idea of them putting gas and water hoses on our people."
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/happiness-lane/11
- Language:
- eng
- Contributing Institution:
- Lane Library (Georgia Southern University, Armstrong Campus)
- Rights:
-
