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Rosemary Elfer does not recall any instances of discrimination either while working for Higgins Industries or while...

Loraine Osborne was born in Prestonsburg, Kentucky in 1925. She grew up on a farm. They canned everything. When they...

Norman Mineta visited relatives while he was stationed in Japan [Annotator's Note: during the Korean War]. The...

Lydia Grant describes recreation and life as a young girl in the Navy Yard at Pearl Harbor. As a young girl, she...

Grace Brown thought the war would end and she would go back to her normal life. She did not think her life changed much...

George Allen says he was part of something that worked out well. He was worried that we [Annotator's Note: the United...

Bobby C. Wilson was born in West Monroe [Annotator's Note: West Monroe, Louisiana] in February 1925. His father was a...

The only benefits they were eligible for was housing and medical benefits. The WASP [Womens Airforce Service Program]...

In 1942, Betty Soskin was a clerk in a segregated union hall in Richmond [Annotator's Note: Richmond, California]. She...

June Tinker was 16 years old and living in Pax, West Virginia when Pearl Harbor was attacked. She heard the news after...

James Gooch had an ice box on the outside porch. It was his job to put a signal out on the window, so the ice man knew...

Doctor James B. Heneghan's father was a civil engineer. He helped design the very first pre-stressed concrete arches...

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