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| Title | Williams, Marie South - Interview and Memoir |
| Subject |
Afro-Americans Coal Mines and Mining--Strikes and Lockouts, "Mine Wars" Depression, 1929 DeSoto (Ill.) Farms and Farming Gangs Grocery Trade Lindbergh, Charles Prohibition Race Discrimination Social Life and Customs Southern Illinois University at Carbondale Teachers Tornado, "Tri-State," 1925 Williamson County (Ill.) |
| Description | Marie South Williams recalls rural life in southern Illinois and in Springfield during the early 20th century: family and farm life in DeSoto, Illinois, her grandmothers, household chores, homemade foods and remedies, holidays, crops, African Americans and discrimination, early schooling and at Carbondale, her husband, Frank Williams, teaching school, gangsters in Williamson County, Depression and prohibition, Charles Lindbergh, the 1925 tornado, coal mining and the mine wars, and operating a grocery store in Springfield. |
| Creator | Williams, Marie South (1893-1989) |
| Contributing Institution | Oral History Collection, Archives/Special Collections, University of Illinois at Springfield |
| Contributors | Dixon, Elizabeth K. [interviewer] |
| Date | 1984 |
| Type | text; sound |
| Digital Format | PDF; MP3 |
| Identifier | W674 |
| Language | en |
| Rights | © Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. For permission to reproduce, distribute, or otherwise use this material, please contact: Archives/Special Collections, University of Illinois at Springfield, One University Plaza, MS BRK 140, Springfield IL 62703-5407. Phone: (217) 206-6520. http://library.uis.edu/archives/index.html |
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| Title | Marie South Williams Memoir Volume I |
| Source | Marie South Williams Memoir Volume I.pdf |
| Rights | © Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. For permission to reproduce, distribute, or otherwise use this material, please contact: Archives/Special Collections, University of Illinois at Springfield, One University Plaza, MS BRK 140, Springfield IL 62703-5407. Phone: (217) 206-6520. http://library.uis.edu/archives/index.html |