Oral history with Lola Berry transcript; 2003

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Oral history with Lola Berry transcript; 2003

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Description: Oral history.; Transcript for interview conducted with Lola Berry. Lola Wilson Durr Berry was born in 1926 near Mendenhall, MS to Charlie Walker and Roberta Wilson. Berry began sharecropping in cotton fields at the age of seven. Berry left school after fifth grade in order to work. In 1942 Berry married Clarence Durr, with whom she had thirteen children, ten of whom survived. Clarence was killed in a car accident in 1975; a year later she remarried to Oscar Berry. Ms. Berry has worked as a domestic employee in private homes in the Mendenhall area, at the Universal Plant for thirteen years, and as a cook at Genesis One School for twelve years.

Creator: Berry, Lola; White, Joe

Date: 2003-09-14

Format: Digital reproduction of a 30-page transcript.

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Collection: Mississippi Oral History Project: Simpson County Historical & Genealogical Society

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Source: F341.5 .M57 vol. 1217

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