Oral history interview with Velma Lawson Cooper, 2000 [audiorecording].

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Oral history interview with Velma Lawson Cooper, 2000 [audiorecording].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/60641856

Velma Lawson Cooper shares a wealth of life experiences and some of her grandfather's stories about his experiences as a slave. She provides detailed information about her childhood in a large family of sharecroppers in Mansfield, Texas. Her memories of Arlington, Texas, of World War II, the Depression, segregation, and life on The Hill (Arlington's historic black community) span almost eighty years.

2 sound cassettes.Transcript : 32 p. ; 28 cm.

University of Texas at Arlington, Central Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7781225

University of Texas at Arlington, Central Library

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Velma Lawson Cooper was born to sharecroppers in Mansfield, Texas, in 1916. She grew up on a farm and worked picking cotton as a child. Because there was no black high school in Mansfield, she left school. Later, as a young adult, she went to live with other family members on The Hill in Arlington, Texas, working for white families and taking care of their children. In 1941, she married Leonard Cooper and they lived in Arlington on The Hill. When Mr. Cooper was employed by General Motors, they m...

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