| Title: |
Jones, Lorita
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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: |
Mrs. Lorita Nelson Jones was born on July 19, 1909, in Biloxi, Mississippi; her parents were Bertha Lewis Nelson Rogers and Lamar Nelson. She had one sister, Antoinette Rogers Jones Lashley Wilson, who died in 2001. Her mother's family were originally from New Orleans, Louisiana, of Creole heritage, and Lorita remembers that her grandmother, Olivia Lewis, spoke only in French. Her father Lamar was involved in the historical musical minstrel shows that traveled the South during the early 1900s.
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| URL: |
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/coh/cohjonesl.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: |
Jones, Lorita Nelson, 1909-
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker date of birth: |
19-Jul-1909
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Biloxi, MS; Mississippi; United States; North America
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| Speaker race: |
Black
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| Age at speaking: |
90
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| Document date: |
07-Nov-1999
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| Interviewer: |
Sartin, Angela
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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: |
OHI0025663-27567
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