| Title: |
Margaret White
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
California State University, Long Beach. Virtual Oral/Aural History Archive
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| Collection: |
Women's History: Rosie the Riveter Revisited
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| Description: |
Margaret White was born in Minnesota in 1905, the seventh of ten children. She worked as a domestic after she finished the tenth grade, until she married in 1925. Divorced three years later, and with a two year old daughter to support, she resumed work as a domestic, first in the Midwest and then in California, where she joined her sick sister in Long Beach in 1930.
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Audio: |
[Audio available]
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| Speaker: |
White, Margaret, 1905-
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| Speaker gender: |
Female
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1905
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Minnesota; United States; North America
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| Speaker occupation: |
Domestic; Factory worker; Homemaker
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| Document date: |
Undated
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| Historical events discussed: |
World War II, 1939-1945
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| Locations discussed: |
California; North America; United States
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Aircraft industry; California; North America; Oral history; United States; Women employees; World War II, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945--Participation, Female; World War, 1939-1945--Personal narratives, American; World War, 1939-1945--War work; World War, 1939-1945--Women
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| ASP release: |
2007-01
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| Document code: |
OHI0035429-38995
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