| Title: |
Robinson-Cyrille, Lodie M.
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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: |
Born on August 21, 1951, Mrs. Lodie Marie Robinson-Cyrille was the oldest of thirteen children born to Herbert Leonard Robinson and Clara Arnell Griffin Robinson, in Biloxi, Mississippi, on the Gulf of Mexico. As a child, she remembers meeting people from various cultures, including Africans; many were studying or serving at Keesler Air Force Base. Additionally she recalls an influence from the French culture, still intact since the earliest settlement of Biloxi. She and her siblings grew up in the segregated South during the Jim Crow era.
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| URL: |
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/coh/cohrobinson-cyrillel.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: |
Robinson-Cyrille, Lodie Marie, 1951-
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker date of birth: |
21-Aug-1951
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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: |
48
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| Document date: |
24-Aug-1999
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| Interviewer: |
Long, Worth
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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: |
OHI0025707-27625
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