Williams, Marie South - Interview and Memoir
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- 1984
- Description
Marie South Williams recalls rural life in southern Illinois and in Springfield during the early 20th century: family and farm life in DeSoto, Illinois, her grandmothers, household chores, homemade foods and remedies, holidays, crops, African Americans and discrimination, early schooling and at Carbondale, her husband, Frank Williams, teaching school, gangsters in Williamson County, Depression and prohibition, Charles Lindbergh, the 1925 tornad...
- Creator
Williams, Marie South (1893-1989)
- Contributing Institution
- University of Illinois at Springfield
- Subjects
- Afro-Americans
Coal Mines and Mining--Strikes and Lockouts, "Mine Wars"
Depression, 1929
DeSoto (Ill.)
Farms and Farming
Gangs
Grocery Trade
Lindbergh, Charles
Prohibition
Race Discrimination
Social Life and Customs
Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
Teachers
Tornado, "Tri-State," 1925
Williamson County (Ill.) - Language
- English
- Rights
- © Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. For permission to reproduce, distribute, or otherwise use this material, please contact: Archives/Special Collections, University of Illinois at Springfield, One University Plaza, MS BRK 140, Springfield IL 62703-5407. Phone: (217) 206-6520. http://library.uis.edu/archives/index.html
- Chicago citation style
- Williams, Marie South (1893-1989). Williams, Marie South - Interview and Memoir. 1984. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/ref/collection/uis/id/4583. (Accessed April 16, 2024.)
- APA citation style
- Williams, Marie South (1893-1989), (1984) Williams, Marie South - Interview and Memoir. Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America, http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/ref/collection/uis/id/4583
- MLA citation style
- Williams, Marie South (1893-1989). Retrieved from the Digital Public Library of America <http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/ref/collection/uis/id/4583>.