| Title: |
Harris, Vonciel
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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: |
Ms. Vonciel Harris was born November 19, 1912, in Thomaston, Alabama. Her parents were Jim and Rachel Tims. She attended nursing school in Montgomery, Alabama.
After finishing nursing school, she married Mr. Jimmy Harris and moved to Hattiesburg, Mississippi. Ms. Harris spent over thirty-five years as a registered nurse for the Mississippi State Department of Health. She was the first black registered nurse at Forrest County Health Department.
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| URL: |
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/coh/cohharrisv.html
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1994 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Harris, Vonciel
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker race: |
Black
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| Speaker occupation: |
Nurse
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| Document date: |
24-Apr-1994
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| Interviewer: |
Davis, Sandra; Johnson, Beatrice
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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: |
OHI0025644-27544
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