Interview: Beulah Collins, August 1, 1983

Interview: Beulah Collins, August 1, 1983

Domestic work

Philadelphia (Pa.)

African Americans--Education.

United States--Race relations.

African Americans--Employment.

African Americans--Conduct of life.

African Americans--Economic conditions.

African Americans--Social conditions.

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social conditions.

Beulah Collins (1892-1986), the daughter of a tenant cropper, grew up on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. After her husband died in the influenza epidemic of 1918, Collins moved first to Wilmington, Delaware, and then to Philadelphia with her newborn child. There she found employment as a live-in domestic, working for the Richard family of Chestnut Hill for thirteen years. Focused on providing for her child, Collins never remarried, but her son did get education that she never had. Collins shared her life story in two interviews, recorded in 1983 and 1984.

1983-08-01

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Charles Hardy

Beulah Collins

Depressions--1929

Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919.

Discrimination in employment.

African American families

African Americans--Housing.