Oral history interview with Jessie Surratt, 1994 October 28.

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Oral history interview with Jessie Surratt, 1994 October 28.

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Interview with Jessie Surratt about her recollections of women's lives in Texarkana, Texas during the Progressive Era. Surratt discusses the business community during her childhood, "Swampoodle" and speakeasies and prostitution, folk medicines, funeral practices, her education, her stay at Fort Worth Masonic Home, memories of her parents, church activities, her mother's membership in Maccabees, gender roles, child-rearing, and holiday customs.

80 leaves ; 29 cm.

University of North Texas Library, UNT

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SNAC Resource ID: 7111105

University of North Texas Library, UNT

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University of North Texas. Oral History Collection.

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Texas Community History Oral History Project.

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Surratt, Jessie, 1915-

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Rowe, Beverly J.

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