I can remember my father, when we were young, refusing to be sent to t…

I can remember my father, when we were young, refusing to be sent to the back of a department store, and saying, "Well, we won't buy anything here," and leaving.

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Oral history interview with Kathryn Nasstrom, Durham, July 13 and August 3, 1989, Interview C-0074, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

form: interview
work: Oral History Interview with Josephine Clement
year: 1989

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