September 14th, 2009
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Interview with Miss. Nettie Greer
First interview transcript access controlled.
General Topic of Interview: Life history
Date: 31 October, 2008
Location: Friars Point, Mississippi, USA
Narrator: Ms. Nettie Greer
Interviewers: James Chapnick and Kim Lacy Rogers
Transcriber: James Chapnick
Biographical Information:
Ms. Nettie Greer was born near Friar’s Point, MS, to a sharecropping family. Shortly after she was born, her family moved to town. She is now 91 years old.
Interview Information:
Ms. Greer’s interview is a life history. She details working in an airplane factory during World War II, as well as the Depression, and the 1927 Mississippi River flood.
Second interview transcript access controlled.
General Topic of Interview: Life history
Date: 4 November, 2008
Location: Friars Point, Mississippi, USA
Narrator: Ms. Nettie Greer
Interviewers: James Chapnick, Max Paschall, Flosha Tejada
Transcriber: Corinthia Jacobs
Interview Information:
In her second life history interview, Ms. Greer discusses the history of the first black church in the Friar’s Point area (founded in 1862), the civil rights movement in Friar’s Point, World War II, and racial relations in the area.