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Document Details
| Title: | Hayes, Eleanora |
| Document type: | Oral history |
| Accessibility: | Free Only |
| Repository: | University of Southern Mississippi. Center for Oral History and Cultural Heritage |
| Collection: | Mississippi Oral History Project |
| Description: | One of thirteen siblings, Ms. Eleanora Hayes was born on May 28, 1930, in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, to Willie and Evangeline Sellers. She grew up on her father's farm in Catahoula, Mississippi. During winter months, she and her siblings attended school, and during the six-month cotton-growing season, they stayed out of school to pick cotton. She attended Valena C. Jones High School in Bay St. Louis, until her junior year, when she began working, including work as a housekeeper, a bartender, a model, and an outfield worker for the Weatherization service in Biloxi, Mississippi. |
| URL: | http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/coh/cohhayese.html |
| Original Language: | English |
| Time span: | Not indicated ... to 1999 (Year of interview) |
| Speaker: | Hayes, Eleanora, 1930- |
| Speaker gender: | Female |
| Speaker date of birth: | 28-May-1930 |
| Speaker place of birth: | Bay Saint Louis, MS; Mississippi; United States; North America |
| Speaker occupation: | Bartender; Housekeeper; Laborer; Model |
| Age at speaking: | 69 |
| Document date: | 03-Nov-1999 |
| Interviewer: | Sartin, Angela |
| Locations discussed: | Mississippi; North America; United States |
| 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 |
| ASP release: | 2005-06 |
| Document code: | OHI0025646-27546 |