Interview: Hughsey Childs, October 23, 1984

Interview: Hughsey Childs, October 23, 1984

African Americans--Education.

African Americans--Civil rights

African American churches

African Americans--Southern States.

African Americans--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

African Americans--Employment.

African Americans--Conduct of life.

United States--Race relations.

African Americans--Economic conditions.

African Americans--Social conditions.

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social conditions.

Integration

African Americans--Segregation

African Americans--Politics and government.

African Americans--Religion.

Hughsey Childs (1899-1986), a migrant from Abbeville, South Carolina, to Philadelphia during the late 1910s, recalls in this 1984 oral history interview details from his work, faith, career, and family. Drawing from personal experiences laboring in cotton fields and factories, encountering racism on a daily basis, and helping to create a new church, Childs is able to evoke the atmosphere of the era by narrating the stories of his rich tapestry of a life, which while distinct, shares similarities with many African Americans’ transitions during the years of the First Great Migration.

1984-10-23

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Charles Hardy

Hughsey Childs

African Americans--Crimes against.

African American families

African Americans--Housing.

Voting.

Race discrimination.

Racism