Oral history interview with Zeler Turner [audio recording and transcript]

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Title

Oral history interview with Zeler Turner [audio recording and transcript]

Description

Zeler Turner (14 Jun 1913-29 Dec 1989), Howard High School graduate and Chattanooga resident, tells her life story from childhood to 1984. Turner lived her first 23 years in Chattanooga but in 1937 moved to Hendersonville, North Carolina where she resided until her return to Chattanooga in 1975. She relates incidents, events, and experiences of her Chattanooga years that pertain to homelife, childhood, various family members, jobs, and school days; discusses the status and experience of Chattanooga's Black residents, especially in the 1920s and 1930s, touching on businesses and professions, politics, social life, schools, churches, communities, segregation, challenges, and opportunities; describes her involvement (after 1975) with issues related to public housing and toxic wastes. She also tells of her years in Hendersonville, describing the town and its people, jobs and incidents related to them; her fight against glaucoma and oncoming blindness; touches on World War II and the civil rights movement as it affected people there. Gives philosophical views on "senior adults," the changes in people, attitudes, values, and life styles over the years.

Interviewee

Turner, Zeler, 1913-1989

Interviewer

Anderson, Ralph

Extent

9 audiocassettes (12 hours 30 minutes)

1 transcript (218 pages)

Collection

Chattanooga Public Library Oral History Collection

Subject

African Americans -- Tennessee -- Chattanooga -- History

Hazardous substances -- Tennessee -- Chattanooga

Public Housing -- Tennessee -- Chattanooga

Hendersonville (N.C.) -- History

World War, 1939-1945

Turner, Zeler, 1913-1989

Rights

No Copyright

Bibliographic Citation

Oral History Collection. Chattanooga Public Library.

Relation

Index to the Oral History Collection

Identifier

OHP 43

Type

Sound

Text

Language

English

Provenance

Gift of Ralph Anderson, December, 1984.

Item sets

Chattanooga Public Library Oral History Collection, 1967-1992