Union County Oral Histories
Narrator:
Butler, Helen
Record ID:
2007.1.49
Interviewer:
Clemens, Vanessa
Interview Place:
La Grande, OR
Abstract:
This interview contains memories related to a number of various subjects, some of which include: The Mormon church, the Civil Right's movement, racial relations, hotel work, and getting a college education.
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People:
Baker, Marianne
Baker, Marion
Butler, Helen
Butler, Willie
Carpenter, Lou
Crampton, Betty
Hawthorne, Johnny Clayton
Henderson, Josephine
Jones, Sigrid
Livingstone, Elaine
Miller, Verl
Myers, Maxine
Strand, Alice
Strand, Sheldon
Torrance, Mrs.
Trice, Dorothy
Wilfong, Esther
Subjects:
Awards
Balls (Parties)
Bands
Baseball
Black Americans
Churches
Civil rights demonstrations
Colleges
Cooking
Family
Floods
Hotels
Housekeeping
Jazz
Medical care
Mormon churches
Nurses
Painting
Paying bills
Prejudice
Racial equality
Racial stereotypes
Railroads
Religion
Restaurants
Rural life
Schools
Singing
Wages
Walking
Welfare
Wrestling
Search Terms:
Avoidance of gangs
Black people
Blue and Gold Ball
Boy Scouts
Boyd Memorial Baptist Church
Custodial work
Driver's license
Encouragement to attend college
Greenwood school
Growing food
Ham hocks
Heisman Award
Hospitality
La Grande Clinic
LDS
Little League
Marching
Mormon
Nazarene Church
Nurse's aide
Oil painting
Oregon State University
Royal Motor Inn
Sacajawea Hotel
Scholarships
School lunches
St. Louis University
Stake Center
Symphony
Tropidara restaurant
Union Pacific Railroad
University of Oregon
Vanport flood
White people
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