Interviewee | MADDOX, Lina Mae (b. 1923) |
Interview ID # | OH 1884 |
Date(s) of interview | |
Description | For the Desegregating DFW Oral History Project. Telephone operator and EEOC member and activist. Childhood as a white Mississippi sharecropper; experiences of discrimination against poor and women; move to Dallas for war work; experiences of segregation; sympathizing with African Americans’ experiences with discrimination; public reaction to the Civil Rights Act; EEOC and union activism; civil rights improvements. |
Interviewer(s) | Christopher E. Fant |
Physical Description | 27 pp. plus documents (97 pp.) |
Terms of Use | Open |