Oral history with Myrtle Brown; 2003

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Oral history with Myrtle Brown; 2003

Identifier: mus-coh_brownm

Description: Oral history.; Myrtle Brown was born in 1925, in Gulfport, Mississippi. She attended Thirty-third Avenue school. She was a very athletic child, playing sandlot baseball with the neighborhood boys. When she was in seventh grade, Ms. Brown was chosen to play on the high school basketball team; she was one of their star players. She left school in tenth grade to help support her family, first at Gulfport Laundry and later at Ryan Stevedores in the Port of Gulfport. Brown was one of the first women to work as a stevedore handling 100-pound bags of chemicals.

Creator: Brown, Myrtle; Firmin, Pic

Date: 2003-03-10

Format: Digital reproduction of an oral history and a 32-page transcript.

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Collection: John C. Robinson Brown Condor

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Source: F341.5 .M57 vol. 790, pt. 1

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