Interview with Harry L. "Harvey" Wilson, Emma Wilson, November 12, 1981
Project: Goin' North: Tales of the Great Migration Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Harvey L. Wilson (1880-1982) was born in South Carolina to a farming family. Even though he had a job as a railroad man in the South, he moved North in 1917 to find better work, hoping to find a job in the war plants or unloading trucks. He found many different jobs in Baltimore and Philadelphia, the most long-term being a mobile grocer in a variety of neighborhoods. Wilson shared his stories in an interview in November 1981, less than a year before his death.Interview Accession
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Emma Wilson
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Church community Church life Church members Jacksonville, Florida Maysville, South Carolina Mother Bethel AME Church Paul Roberts Singers Pennsylvania Hospital Shoe worker African American supervisors Personnel management Supervision of employees World War, 1914-1918 African Americans--Housing African Americans--Economic conditionsInterview LC Subject
African American churches African Americans--Religion African Americans--Health and hygiene Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social conditions African Americans--Social conditions Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social life and customs African Americans--Employment Discrimination in employment Race discriminationInterview Rights
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Wilson, Harry L. Interview by Charles Hardy, III. 12 Nov. 1981. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Wilson, H.L. (1981, November 12). Interview by C. H. III. Goin' North: Tales of the Great Migration Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Wilson, Harry L., interview by Charles Hardy, III. November 12, 1981, Goin' North: Tales of the Great Migration Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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