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University of Texas at El Paso

1978

Civil War

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Interview No. 349, Anne Magee Oct 1978

Interview No. 349, Anne Magee

Combined Interviews

Recollections of her father as a Confederate soldier and Ku Klux Klan member; remembers her grandmother made Klan gowns; witnessed part of the Mexican Revolution in Brownsville, Texas; lived on a plantation where Mexicans were hired; lived on the border during Prohibition, the 1918 Flu Epidemic, and the Depression; social customs.


Interview No. 347, Alice White North Oct 1978

Interview No. 347, Alice White North

Combined Interviews

Biography; childhood in Iowa; her father's experience as a Northern soldier during the Civil War; move to Edinburgh, Texas, in 1930; teaching experiences with Mexican children; the Depression; 1918 Spanish Flu; experiences as a volunteer during World War I; her poetry. (Also included is a collection of Ms. North's poetry.)