Interview with Inez Music, October 14, 1988
Project: Appalachia: Family and Gender in the Coal Community Oral History Project
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Inez Music's parents were from Alabama and she was born in Trafford, Alabama in 1915. As a child her family moved between Alabama and coal camps in Kentucky and Virginia. She met her husband, Ben Music, while they were living in Betsy Lane, Kentucky and that is where they married and started their "housekeeping." Music remembers that everyone in Betsy Lane "seemed like family." She states that she does not recall a large group of African Americans in Appalachia, but she tells the story of a black woman she met in Wheelwright, Kentucky who had sharecropped on her grandfather's land.Interview Accession
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Music, Inez Interview by Glenna Graves. 14 Oct. 1988. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Music, I. (1988, October 14). Interview by G. Graves. Appalachia: Family and Gender in the Coal Community Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Music, Inez, interview by Glenna Graves. October 14, 1988, Appalachia: Family and Gender in the Coal Community Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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