Audio Recording Oral history with 84 year old black female, Joiner, Arkansas
About this Item
- Title
- Oral history with 84 year old black female, Joiner, Arkansas
- Contributor Names
- Clements, William (Collector)
- Tyler, Sallie (Speaker)
- Created / Published
- May 29, 1981
- Subject Headings
- - English language--Dialects--Arkansas
- - Women, Black--Arkansas--Joiner--Language
- - Cotton picking--Arkansas
- - Traditional medicine--Mississippi
- - Sharecropping--Arkansas--Joiner
- - Floods--Mississippi River Valley
- - African American women domestics--Arkansas--Joiner--Language
- - Older African American women--Arkansas--Joiner--Language
- - African American Baptists--Arkansas--Joiner
- - African American children--Mortality--Arkansas
- - African American women--Arkansas--Joiner--Social life and customs
- - Joiner (Ark.)--Race relations
- - Interviews
- - Narratives
- - Oral histories
- - Personal narratives
- - United States -- Arkansas -- Joiner
- Genre
- Interviews
- Narratives
- Oral histories
- Personal narratives
- Notes
- - For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Mid-South center for Oral History, Arkansas State University. AR
- - 84 year old black female.
- - Sharecropping
- - Home medicine, food, cotton picking, doodlum books
- - Have additional transcript images that are not present on the audio file (after page 14).
- - She picked cotton as a child in Mississippi to help her mother support the family, didn't go to school, couldn't read; picked cotton and worked as a domestic in Arkansas. Sharecropping with her husband. Mother of 20 children, 14 of them died by age 3.
- Medium
- Audio tape; 10.5” reel, 7.5 ips; duration: 29:51
- Call Number/Physical Location
- AFC 1986/022: AFS 24,301 b01
- Source Collection
- Center for Applied Linguistics Collection (AFC 1986/022)
- Repository
- American Folklife Center
- Digital Id
- http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc1986022.sr03b01
- Online Format
- audio
Part of...
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Format
Audio Recording
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Contributors
Clements, William
Tyler, Sallie
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Dates
1981
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Location
Arkansas
Joiner
United States
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Language
English
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Subjects
African American Baptists
African American Children
African American Women
African American Women Domestics
Arkansas
Cotton Picking
Dialects
English Language
Floods
Interviews
Joiner
Joiner (Ark.)
Language
Mississippi
Mississippi River Valley
Mortality
Narratives
Older African American Women
Oral Histories
Personal Narratives
Race Relations
Sharecropping
Social Life and Customs
Traditional Medicine
Women, Black
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Clements, William, and Sallie Tyler. Oral history with 84 year old black female, Joiner, Arkansas. 1981. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afccal000030/. (Accessed January 20, 2018.)
APA citation style:
Clements, W. & Tyler, S. (1981) Oral history with 84 year old black female, Joiner, Arkansas. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afccal000030/.
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Clements, William, and Sallie Tyler. Oral history with 84 year old black female, Joiner, Arkansas. 1981. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <https://www.loc.gov/item/afccal000030/>.