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People of Indianapolis, 1983


Interviewee
Wilborn, Elnora April 20, 1983 

Call Number
83-024

Physical Description

30 pages; 1 cassette, 1 7/8 ips, 30 minutes; no index

Interviewer
Cornish, Erin

Access Status

Open

Elnora Wilborn, born May 10, 1915, has lived most of her life in Arkansas. She grew up on a tenant farm. She left school after third grade to help take care of her siblings. She married another farmer at the age of twenty. Mrs. Wilborn talks about cotton farming and harvesting. She also worked as a nurse's aide in a nursing home for many years. Mrs. Wilborn discusses midwifery, and her experiences delivering babies to friends and neighbors in their homes. Mrs. Wilborn only recently moved to Indianapolis to live with her brother after her husband died. She discusses her difficulty in learning to read and write her own name.

  • Keywords
    • Place Names
    • Arkansas
    • Occupation Names
    • nurse's aide
    • farmer
    • Subjects
    • tenant farming
    • cotton farming
    • soap making
    • midwifery
    • granny women
    • nursing homes
    • racial segregation
    • literacy
    • miscarriages