Interviewee | HENRY, Florine (b. 1935) |
Interview ID # | OH 1655 |
Date(s) of interview | |
Description | For the Texas Textile Mill Oral History Project. Longtime resident of McKinney, Texas. Childhood and education in all-black McKinney schools; nursing education at Prairie View A&M College and McKinney City County Hospital; career at Ashburn Veterans Administration hospital, Cook County (Illinois) Hospital; history of McKinney black community; comparison of conditions for black residents of McKinney and Chicago, Illinois; volunteer work in McKinney public schools and civic activism to improve black neighborhoods in McKinney; memories of 1948 tornado. |
Interviewer(s) | Deborah Kilgore |
Physical Description | 86 pp. |
Terms of Use | Open |