Interview with Mildred Proctor

Interview with Mildred Proctor

African American farmers

African Americans

African Americans -- Religion

Autobiography

Proctor, Mildred

Proctor, Mildred -- Childhood and youth

Sharecroppers

Mildred Proctor is interviewed by Edward Clark Smith on April 2, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Born in 1928, Proctor grew up in Whitmire, South Carolina. Her father died young and so she quit school in the ninth grade to help her mother work in the fields and do laundry. When she was eighteen, her mother remarried and they moved to Tryon. Proctor grew up the hard way with little to no money and very little to entertain herself, but looking back she has no regrets. Her husband Willie is in the room and adds to the interview.

Proctor, Mildred

Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project

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

1930s; 1940s; 1950s; 1960s; 1970s; 1980s;

1986-04-02

Smith, Edward Clark

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interviews

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2019-10-28

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Newberry County (S.C.)

Polk County (N.C.)

North Carolina, Western

12 pages (transcript)(duration)

22:47 (sound recording)(duration)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina