Brooks, Evelyn, May 11, 1976, tape 2, side 1

May 11, 1976

Title
Brooks, Evelyn, May 11, 1976, tape 2, side 1
Date
May 11, 1976
Identifier
31735073014452-03
Source Identifier
31735073014452
Description
Evelyn Brooks describes her husband's work as a "skycap," or airport porter, and her own work as a housekeeper for a white family, as well as her mother's attitude toward that work. She discusses the changes that Homestead has experienced over the decades, pointing out the greater rate of employment of Black people in all levels of the education system. She recalls her own experience with segregation, as well as presence of the Ku Klux Klan in Homestead and the shooting of a Black man on Election Day in the 1930s.
Extent
30 minutes
Type
sound recording-nonmusical
Genre
oral histories (literary genre)
Source
Homestead Album Oral History Project Records, 1975-1977
Language
eng
Contributor
University of Pittsburgh
Collection
Homestead Album Oral History Project Records
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