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Calpurnia Williams - Video Interview
Collection/SourceBHPP Video Interview
OwnerCalpurnia Williams - interviewee, Tasneem Grace-Tewogbola - interviewer
TitleCalpurnia Williams - Video Interview
Date Original07/23/2010
Date Digital04/21/2011
DescriptionMrs. Williams talks about where she was born and the difficulties she and her family faced moving around the country and trying to find work during the Great Depression.""Before Syracuse… Bermuda (until 1924)"" The Methodist Ministry brings Joseph Willard Miller and Ersel Carmen Swan together in matrimony, and creates opportunity for travel across the United States. Mrs. Williams describes how she was born in St. George's Bermuda. She describes how her father was a pastor, her mother an organist, and how they met and had a family." Mrs. Williams also describes the places that she and her family members lived and worked in 20th Century America.
LocationSyracuse
Photographer/AuthorVideo edited by Linda Littlejohn and Robert Loftus
Digital PublisherBlack History Preservation Project
Digital Specificationsffmpeg encoded mp4 video file, 720 x 480 resolution, 119 MB
Summon Content TypeVideo Recording
RightsMaterials in this collection are the property of aforementioned owner. Permission to use this audio/video interview has been granted by owner to the Black History Preservation Project and its current and future partners.
LanguageEnglish
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