Interview with Lila M. Clifton, November 5, 1988

Project: Appalachia: Family and Gender in the Coal Community Oral History Project

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Interview Summary

Lila Clifton was born in 1916 and her family moved from Thealka to Van Lear when she was five. She talks extensively about birth control and her remarks reveal much about her own relationship with the company doctor. The doctor even advised her and her husband about using condoms. She talks at length about the social relationship between the black and white population as well as social relationships within the community at large. She remembers the Consolidated Coal Company as a good company that looked after its employees.

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1988oh178_app175

Interviewee Name

Lila M. Clifton

Interviewer Name

Glenna Graves

Interview Date

1988-11-05

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Clifton, Lila M. Interview by Glenna Graves. 05 Nov. 1988. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.

Clifton, L.M. (1988, November 05). Interview by G. Graves. Appalachia: Family and Gender in the Coal Community Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.

Clifton, Lila M., interview by Glenna Graves. November 05, 1988, Appalachia: Family and Gender in the Coal Community Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.





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