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Our corner of the world : African American women in Utah tell their stories, 1940-2002
- Title
- Our corner of the world : African American women in Utah tell their stories, 1940-2002 / edited by Deirdre Ann Tyler.
- Publication
- Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2005.
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- Additional Authors
- Tyler, Deirdre Ann.
- Description
- xi, 185 p.; 23 cm.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-185).
- Contents
- Chapter 1. Blacks in Utah in the 1940s -- "I was not going to move" / Mrs. Esther Williams -- "I had to be organized" / Mrs. Elnora Jennings -- "I just left that 25-cent job" / Mrs. Naomi Middleton -- "You don't make changes by being nice" / Mrs. Alberta Henry -- "I am going to live here until I die" / Mrs. Sattie Etherly -- "Do you know I was a mechanic?" / Mrs. Nellie Styles -- Chapter 2. Blacks in Utah in the 1950s -- "I brought gospel music into Salt Lake City" / Mrs. Ida Jackson -- "Wherever I am when the oldest child starts school is where I will stay" / Mrs. Alberta Carter -- Chapter 3. Blacks in Utah in the 1960s -- "Stay alert, keep your eyes open, stay focused" / Mrs. Johnnie Mae Martin -- "You may not like me, but you've got to respect me" / Mrs. Betty Pittman -- "I have a place in Utah" / Miss Mary Hariis -- "I have been blessed by living in Utah" / Mrs. Sarah McClellan -- Chapter 4. Blacks in Utah in the 1970s -- "Keep looking up. Keep going" / Mrs. Gladys Martin -- "All lessons are repeated until learned" / Mrs. Mary Daniels -- "The mountains were beautiful in Utah" / Mrs. Charlotte Starks -- Chapter 5. Blacks in Utah in the 1980s -- "When your children are happy, you adjust" / Mrs. Mary Ann Washington Sampson -- "I have had to evolve in Utah" / Mrs. Simone Fritz-Niang -- "I fell in love with Utah" / Mrs. Emma Houston -- "We made the best of the situation" / Mrs. Millie T. Sparks -- "I walked out on faith" / Mrs. Tonia Davis -- Chapter 6. Blacks in Utah in the 1990s -- "I was led by God to Utah" / Mrs. Pamela McNeil -- "It has been very profitable for me in Utah" / Mrs. Ann Atkins -- "I am on my way out of the state of Utah" / Miss Andrea L. Wiley -- "I didn't need any more rejection" / Dr. Deidre Ann Tyler -- "I keep coming back to the issue of gender" / Mrs. Marian D. Howe Taylor -- Chapter 7. Blacks in Utah in the 2000s -- "I am coming from a good place and going to a better one" / Mrs. Darlene Johnson -- "It makes me feel like I am their exotica" / Miss Deanna Blackwell -- "I like to achieve" / Mrs. Florence Lawrence -- Chapter 8. Lessons learned from this project.
- Call Number
- Sc D 06-565
- ISBN
- 076183253X
- LCCN
- 2005928216
- OCLC
- 62476806
- Title
- Our corner of the world : African American women in Utah tell their stories, 1940-2002 / edited by Deirdre Ann Tyler.
- Imprint
- Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, c2005.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [183]-185).
- Added Author
- Tyler, Deirdre Ann.
- Research Call Number
- Sc D 06-565