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Transcripts For CSPAN3 Oral Histories 20150907

Education, she could only hire herself out as a domestic. That is she went into suburban homes of white families and scrubbed their floors and cooked their meals and washed their clothes and cleaned their homes, things of that nature. My father probably had less than an eighth grade education, was a worked in a laundry. And then he died shortly after they married. I was three years old. Carl was a year old. And so this young bride then had to try to raise two boys as a domestic worker. She sent for her mother and brought her mother up from georgia so her mother could take care of carl and i. She had to spend the entire week working on the job spend the weekend with us and go back. During the week, her grandmother took care of us she found it difficult. Often told us she made 8 a day plus car fare, because at the time car fare was by street cars. She found it difficult to make a living on that amount of money, she also went on welfare. In addition to it in order to try to still make her ....

Republic Of , New York , United States , District Of Columbia , Virgin Islands , West Point , South Africa , South African , Lee Harvey Oswald , Julian Dixon , Martin Luther King , Geraldine Ferraro , Jim Wright , Walter Mondale , James Earl Ray , John Conyers , Coretta Scott King , Martin Luther King Jr , Klux Klan , Adam Clayton Powell , Taran Mitchell , Nelson Mandela , Terry Perry , Donna Christiansen , Harold Ford , John F Kennedy ,

Transcripts For CSPAN3 Oral Histories 20150907

Education, she could only hire herself out as a domestic. That is she went into suburban homes of white families and scrubbed their floors and cooked their meals and washed their clothes and cleaned their homes, things of that nature. My father probably had less than an eighth grade education, was a worked in a laundry. And then he died shortly after they married. I was three years old. Carl was a year old. And so this young bride then had to try to raise two boys as a domestic worker. She sent for her mother and brought her mother up from georgia so her mother could take care of carl and i. She had to spend the entire week working on the job spend the weekend with us and go back. During the week, her grandmother took care of us she found it difficult. Often told us she made 8 a day plus car fare, because at the time car fare was by street cars. She found it difficult to make a living on that amount of money, she also went on welfare. In addition to it in order to try to still make her ....

Republic Of , New York , United States , District Of Columbia , Virgin Islands , West Point , South Africa , South African , Lee Harvey Oswald , Julian Dixon , Martin Luther King , Geraldine Ferraro , Jim Wright , Walter Mondale , James Earl Ray , John Conyers , Coretta Scott King , Martin Luther King Jr , Klux Klan , Adam Clayton Powell , Taran Mitchell , Nelson Mandela , Terry Perry , Donna Christiansen , Harold Ford , John F Kennedy ,

Transcripts For CSPAN3 Oral Histories 20150907

Education, she could only hire herself out as a domestic. That is she went into suburban homes of white families and scrubbed their floors and cooked their meals and washed their clothes and cleaned their homes, things of that nature. My father probably had less than an eighth grade education, was a worked in a laundry. And then he died shortly after they married. I was three years old. Carl was a year old. And so this young bride then had to try to raise two boys as a domestic worker. She sent for her mother and brought her mother up from georgia so her mother could take care of carl and i. She had to spend the entire week working on the job spend the weekend with us and go back. During the week, her grandmother took care of us she found it difficult. Often told us she made 8 a day plus car fare, because at the time car fare was by street cars. She found it difficult to make a living on that amount of money, she also went on welfare. In addition to it in order to try to still make her ....

Republic Of , New York , United States , District Of Columbia , Virgin Islands , West Point , South Africa , South African , Lee Harvey Oswald , Julian Dixon , Martin Luther King , Geraldine Ferraro , Jim Wright , Walter Mondale , James Earl Ray , John Conyers , Coretta Scott King , Martin Luther King Jr , Klux Klan , Adam Clayton Powell , Taran Mitchell , Nelson Mandela , Terry Perry , Donna Christiansen , Harold Ford , John F Kennedy ,