Reminiscences of Frances H. Williams : oral history, 1977.

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Reminiscences of Frances H. Williams : oral history, 1977.

Slave ancestors; family's education; integration of Young Women's Christian Association of the U.S.A. during 1930s; Office of Price Administration, 1940s; recollections of Chester Bowles, Adam Clayton Powell, Herbert Lehman.

Transcript: 30 leaves.

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