Interview with Rita Hooper

Interview with Rita Hooper

Civil Rights movements -- United States -- History -- 20th century

Hooper, Rita

Immigrants

Mexicans

Race discrimination -- Ohio -- 20th century

Schools -- Centralization

Rita Hooper is interviewed by a Smoky Mountain High School student as a part of Mountain People, Mountain Lives: A Student Led Oral History Project. Hooper describes her life growing up in Mexico and then moving to the United States where she faced discrimination and language barriers. She met and married her first husband and shares her experience living with his parents in Lebanon, Ohio while he was serving in the Navy and continued living with them after he was killed in action. She shares her experiences during the Civil Rights Movement and continued discrimination in Ohio. She talks about meeting and marrying her second husband who grew up on Caney Fork. Hooper shares her experience moving to Jackson County in 1972 and working in the cafeteria at Camp Lab High School. She also talks about the consolidation of schools in Jackson County and being a member of the Eastern Star.

Hooper, Rita

WCU Oral History Collection - Mountain People, Mountain Lives

2019-08-06

Miller, Holly

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

sound recordings

transcripts

interviews

eng

Sound

Text

63963

https://southernappalachiandigitalcollections.org/object/63963

Jackson County (N.C.)

Ohio

0:55:23(duration)

18(pages)

Oral Histories of Western North Carolina