Maddox Cassette 2 Side 2
Media
Part of Interview: Maddox, Lou Ida
Title
Maddox Cassette 2 Side 2
Source
Lou Ida Maddox Interview
Date
1990-07-07
Description
Cassette 2
Side 2
00:00--Mrs. Maddox talks about issues surrounding local shopping opportunities. Most fruits, vegetables, and meat were grown at her home. She explains the process in making sugar and molasses from sugar cane.
4:40--Mrs. Maddox had nine children; she recalls baby showers where family and friends would bring gifts. She had all of her children at home.
10:45--Issues regarding her employment over the years is revisited. Employment opportunities were fairly limited for local blacks. She picked cotton for most of her life before turning to domestic work for local whites. She attempts to explain the strong ties of affection between domestic workers and the white children they helped to raise. She worked for the Burley family locally. She talks at quite some length regarding her experiences working for the family.
27:00--Educational issues as they related to her children are touched upon, as well as the fact that Mrs. Maddox herself attended rural schools, but had to quit because of farm work.
30:40--Mrs. Maddox was a member of Piney Grove Baptist Church.
31:10--She can recall the flu epidemic of 1917-1918. There was much sickness and death as she can recall.
32:13--Audio ends.
Side 2
00:00--Mrs. Maddox talks about issues surrounding local shopping opportunities. Most fruits, vegetables, and meat were grown at her home. She explains the process in making sugar and molasses from sugar cane.
4:40--Mrs. Maddox had nine children; she recalls baby showers where family and friends would bring gifts. She had all of her children at home.
10:45--Issues regarding her employment over the years is revisited. Employment opportunities were fairly limited for local blacks. She picked cotton for most of her life before turning to domestic work for local whites. She attempts to explain the strong ties of affection between domestic workers and the white children they helped to raise. She worked for the Burley family locally. She talks at quite some length regarding her experiences working for the family.
27:00--Educational issues as they related to her children are touched upon, as well as the fact that Mrs. Maddox herself attended rural schools, but had to quit because of farm work.
30:40--Mrs. Maddox was a member of Piney Grove Baptist Church.
31:10--She can recall the flu epidemic of 1917-1918. There was much sickness and death as she can recall.
32:13--Audio ends.
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