- Collection:
- Oral Histories of the American South: The Civil Rights Movement
- Title:
- Oral history interview with Serena Henderson Parker, April 13, 1995
- Creator:
- Parker, Serena Henderson, 1923-
- Contributor to Resource:
- McCoy, James Eddie (James Edward), 1942-
Southern Oral History Program - Date of Original:
- 1995-04-13
- Subject:
- 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 - People:
- Parker, Serena Henderson, 1923-
- 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:
- 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. - Metadata URL:
- http://docsouth.unc.edu/sohp/Q-0073/menu.html
- Language:
- eng
- Extent:
- 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. - Contributing Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Documenting the American South (Project)
- Rights:
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