| Title: |
Gates, Eva K.
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
University of Southern Mississippi. Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage
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| Collection: |
Mississippi Oral History Project
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| Description: |
Eva Gates was born on October 4, 1948. Her parents are Henry Harris and Effie King. Her parents had six children, which includes Mrs. Gates. When her father left the family when she was ten, her mother remarried and had five children. Mrs. Gates and her older sister, at the request of their mother, often took shifts in order to take care of their siblings, which meant that they "rotated being out of school" during the 1960s. Mrs. Gates missed school terribly but she tried to help maintain an efficient household since her stepfather was demanding; her parents were depressed due to their economic and housing situations; and her mother's low estimation of the educational process. Her mother believed that a woman's goal was to marry and to not "worry about being educated." Mrs. Gates seemed to follow her mother's philosophy by marrying and starting a family, but she never forgot her own desire to finish her education.
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| URL: |
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/coh/cohgatese.html
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1999 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Gates, Eva K., 1948-
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker date of birth: |
4-Oct-1948
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| Speaker race: |
Black
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| Speaker occupation: |
Homemaker; Secretary
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| Age at speaking: |
51
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| Document date: |
30-Nov-1999
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| Interviewer: |
Firmin, Pic
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| Locations discussed: |
Mississippi; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Agriculture; Cities and towns--Mississippi; City and town life--Mississippi; Community; Local history; Mississippi; Mississippi--History; North America; Oral history; United States
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0025634-27528
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