Interview with Fannie Hutchinson, June 25, 1984
Project: Goin' North: Tales of the Great Migration Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Born and raised on a sharecroppers' farm near Petersburg, Virginia, Fannie Hutchinson (1905-1990) was one of sixteen children. In her 1984 interview, Hutchinson spoke of how she started to work at the age of thirteen to help support her family, her move to Philadelphia in 1926, the limits placed upon her by an overprotective uncle, and her experiences as a servant and factory worker. By the 1940s she owned her own grocery and luncheonette in West Philadelphia.Interview Accession
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African American families African Americans--Employment African Americans--Social conditions Migration, Internal African Americans--Economic conditions Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social conditions African Americans--Southern States African Americans--Politics and government African American churches United States--Race relations Depressions--1929--United StatesInterview Rights
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Hutchinson, Fannie Interview by Charles Hardy, III. 25 Jun. 1984. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Hutchinson, F. (1984, June 25). 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.
Hutchinson, Fannie, interview by Charles Hardy, III. June 25, 1984, 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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