Interview: Idelle Truitt Elsey, June 29, 1984

Interview: Idelle Truitt Elsey, June 29, 1984

African American families

Migration, Internal.

United States--Race relations.

Voting.

African Americans--Politics and government.

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social conditions.

African Americans--Education.

African Americans--Segregation

African Americans--Social conditions.

Race discrimination.

African Americans--Employment.

African Americans--Southern States.

African Americans--Societies, etc.

Born into a prominent “Old Philadelphia” family, Idelle Truitt Elsey (1892-1985) worked at the Frederick Douglass Memorial Hospital and at the Brown and Stevens Bank before serving as secretary to the executive director of the Armstrong Association of Philadelphia from 1927 to 1962. There, she helped find work and housing for Black newcomers from the South. In this 1984 interview, Elsey spoke about her family, her own life, and her memories of Black Philadelphia in the early 1900s.

1984-06-29

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Charles Hardy

Idelle Truitt Elsey

African American physicians

Armstrong Association

African American police.

African Americans--Genealogy.

African American leadership