Interview: Minnie S. Whitney, March 6, 1984

Interview: Minnie S. Whitney, March 6, 1984

Race discrimination.

Racism

African Americans--Segregation

United States--Race relations.

African Americans--Social life and customs.

African Americans--Southern States.

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social life and customs.

African Americans--Conduct of life.

African Americans--Employment.

African Americans--Social conditions.

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social conditions.

In the first of two separate interviews conducted in March of 1984, Minnie Whitney (1902-1995) recalls her journey traveling from the Eastern Shore of Virginia to the city of Philadelphia. After spending 16 and a half years on the farm, working alongside her sharecropping parents, Whitney ran away from home in 1919 and traveled north on a train headed for Philadelphia. Whitney shares her story of her time spent in domestic service working for an incredibly harsh and demanding woman. Whitney's strong work ethic and sense of determination influenced her decisions to move, and then remain, up north.

1984-03-06

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Charles Hardy

Minnie S. Whitney

Childhood

African American families

African Americans--Education.

African Americans--Economic conditions.

African American churches