Interview with Beulah Collins, August 1, 1983

Project: Goin' North: Tales of the Great Migration Oral History Project

Interview Summary

Beulah Collins (1892-1986), the daughter of a tenant cropper, grew up on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. After her husband died in the influenza epidemic of 1918, Collins moved first to Wilmington, Delaware, and then to Philadelphia with her newborn child. There she found employment as a live-in domestic, working for the Richard family of Chestnut Hill for thirteen years. Focused on providing for her child, Collins never remarried, but her son did get education that she never had. Collins shared her life story in two interviews, recorded in 1983 and 1984.

Interview Accession

2014oh158_gn010

Interviewee Name

Beulah Collins

Interviewer Name

Charles Hardy, III

Interview Date

1983-08-01

Interview Keyword

Domestic workers Eastern Shore Depressions--1929 Flu epidemic of 1918 Maryland Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919. Discrimination in employment. African American families African Americans--Housing.

Interview LC Subject

Domestic work Philadelphia (Pa.) African Americans--Education African Americans--Employment United States--Race relations African Americans--Conduct of life African Americans--Economic conditions African Americans--Social conditions Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social conditions

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