| Title: |
Mabel Lyles
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
City of Alexandria, Virginia. Historic Alexandria
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| Collection: |
Historic Alexandria Oral History Collection
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| Description: |
Mabel Lyles spent her early childhood with her mother's family in the rural countryside of Spotsylvania County, VA. She tells stories of washing clothes in the stream there and going to school in a one room schoolhouse. She was able to attend Virginia Union University in Richmond on scholarship and went on to become a teacher. She moved to a segregated Alexandria in 1950 where she taught school and served her church in Christian Education and other activities.
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| URL: |
http://oha.ci.alexandria.va.us/oha-main/oralhistory/oha-mabellyles.html
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 2002 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Lyles, Mabel, 1927-
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker date of birth: |
3-Oct-1927
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Alexandria, VA; Virginia; United States; North America
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| Age at speaking: |
75
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| Document location: |
Alexandria, VA
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| Document date: |
28-Mar-2002
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| Locations discussed: |
Alexandria, VA; North America; United States; Virginia
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Alexandria (Va.)--History; Alexandria, VA; Local history; North America; Old Town (Alexandria, Va.)--History; Oral history; United States; Virginia
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0029168-32249
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