Oral Histories of Low Income and Minority Women, 1976-1992

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Oral Histories of Low Income and Minority Women, 1976-1992

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Transcripts of the oral histories of fifty-six women from a variety of ethnic backgroundsand geographical locations in the United States. The oral histories project was created andconducted by Fran Leeper Buss, in collaboration with The Southwest Institute for Research onWomen at the University of Arizona. Fran Buss sought to give poor and minority women aforum. Their histories cover a wide range of subject matter, each woman speaking candidly abouther own life's conditions and critical issues including family life, roles in the community, andemployment.

3.3 linear feet

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Archives and Special Collections Department. New Mexico State University.

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Southwest Institute for Research on Women

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Organization centered in the Southwest U.S. to promote the study of women and women's issues. From the description of Newsletters, 1979-1981. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122497403 The Southwest Institute for Research on Women, in collaboration with the Schlesinger Library on the History of American Women at Radcliffe College and the Ford Foundation, undertook a project conceived and conducted by Fran Buss to record the oral histories of low income and minorit...

Buss, Fran Leeper, 1942-....

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Historian associated with the University of Arizona. From the description of Work and family : low income and minority women talk about their lives, 1976-1990. (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 27959871 A minister with United Campus Christian Ministry and a doctoral candidate in history at the University of Arizona, Buss has been a community organizer since the late 1960s, when she herself was struggling to survive as an ill, divorced mother of three, dependent on...