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

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