- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Martha Cooley, April 25, 1995
- Creator:
- Cooley, Martha, 1908?-2005
- Contributor to Resource:
- McCoy, James Eddie (James Edward), 1942-
Southern Oral History Program - Date of Original:
- 1995-04-25
- Subject:
- African American women--North Carolina--Granville County
African Americans--North Carolina--Granville County--Social life and customs
Farm life--North Carolina--Granville County
African Americans--Education--North Carolina--Granville County - People:
- Cooley, Martha, 1908?-2005
- Location:
- United States, North Carolina, Granville County, 36.30402, -78.65302
- Medium:
- transcripts
sound recordings
oral histories (literary works) - Type:
- Text
Sound - Format:
- text/html
text/xml
audio/mpeg - Description:
- Martha Cooley learned how to run a household when she was just a girl; by the age of twelve, she had taken charge of her home, cooking meals and hanging tobacco leaves to help her father's farming venture in Granville County, North Carolina. Eighty-five years old at the time of this 1995 interview, Cooley describes a childhood in the rural South before the advent of the civil rights movement, the intrusion of roads and highways, or interference from industrial growth or urban sprawl. Cooley remembers her history and that of her family, recalling her education in a one-room schoolhouse, Sunday afternoons, quiltings, and cornshuckings. She creates an image of an inward-looking, supportive community.
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. - Metadata URL:
- http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/Q-0019/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- Title from menu page (viewed on Dec. 3, 2008).
Interview participants: Martha Cooley, interviewee; Eddie McCoy, interviewer.
Duration: 00:47:18.
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. - Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
- Rights:
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