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OH 1884

About the Interviewee

IntervieweeMADDOX, Lina Mae (b. 1923)

About this oral history

Interview ID #OH 1884
Date(s) of interview
DescriptionFor 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 Description27 pp. plus documents (97 pp.)
Terms of UseOpen