| Title: |
Winston, Monroe
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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: |
Mr. Monroe "Bill" Winston was born September 12, 1907, in Caseyville, Lincoln County, Mississippi. His parents, Melissa Mitchell and Willie Benjamin Winston, had a total of six children, four boys and two girls. His parents were sharecroppers on the Red Star plantation, the same plantation where his grandmother had been a slave.
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| URL: |
http://www.lib.usm.edu/~spcol/coh/cohwinstonm.html
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1966 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Winston, Monroe "Bill", 1907-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
12-Sep-1907
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Caseyville, MS; Mississippi; United States; North America
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| Speaker race: |
Black
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| Speaker occupation: |
Factory worker; Farmer; Mechanic; Truck driver
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| Age at speaking: |
59
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| Document date: |
14-Feb-1966
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| Interviewer: |
Walton, Shana
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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: |
OHI0025747-27675
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