Interview with Alma Blair Coleman

Interview with Alma Blair Coleman

Autobiography

Coleman, Martha Blair, 1924-

Draftees -- North Carolina

Events

War and families -- North Carolina

War neuroses -- United States

World War, 1939-1945 -- Economic aspects -- United States

World War, 1939-1945 -- Social aspects -- United States

World War, 1939-1945 -- Women -- North Carolina -- Surry County

Martha "Alma" Blair Coleman discusses life during World War II, working in the defense plant that manufactured atom bombs, the effects of the war on friends and relatives who served, including her brother who returned from the war shell shocked, and the hardships of wartime bringing her community together. Also present during the interview was Pansy Jessup, wife of Alma's nephew.

Coleman, Martha Blair, 1924-

WCU Oral History Collection - HIST 474/574

Hunter Library Digital Collections, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, NC 28723

1940s;

2009-10-09

Jessup, Jenny

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audio/mp3; application/pdf;

sound recordings

interviews

eng

Sound

35540

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/35540

2014-12-04

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Surry County (N.C.)

00:32:44 (sound recording)(duration)

9 pages (transcript)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina