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Oral history interview with Mildred Owsley Buchanan, 1980 November, excerpt 03

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An excerpt from an oral history interview with Nashville educator Mildred Owsley Buchanan., conducted on two dates in November 1980 by Paul Clements as part of the Century III Nashville: Nashville Heritage Project. Buchanan, a home economics teacher in Nashville city schools from the late 1920s through ca. 1963, discusses the tenant houses occupied by African American workers in the area of Lebanon Road where she grew up. She describes the interior of one of these houses. The complete interview is available in the repository.
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Sound Oral Histories
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Keywords

  1. African American Agricultural Laborers
  2. African Americans
  3. Agricultural Laborers
  4. Architecture
  5. Buchanan, Mildred Owsley, 1902 2000
  6. Buildings
  7. Buildings, Structures, Etc
  8. Capital City
  9. Country Life
  10. Dwellings
  11. Farm Tenancy
  12. History
  13. Housing
  14. Interviews
  15. Labor
  16. Lebanon Road (Nashville, Tenn.)
  17. Nashville
  18. Nashville (Tenn.)
  19. Race Relations
  20. Rural Conditions
  21. Schools
  22. Social Conditions
  23. Sources
  24. Teachers
  25. Tenant Farmers
  26. Tennessee

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