Flossie Durham describes her first wages.
Flossie Durham describes her first wages.
Flossie Moore Durham interviewed by Mary Frederickson and Brent Glass, Bynum, North Carolina, September 2, 1976. Interview # H-66 in the Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007), Southern Historical Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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- Mary Frederickson
- Do you remember what you first made when you went to work?
- Flossie Moore Durham
- About twenty-five cents a day. And that was a day; that weren’t an hour. That was a day.
- Brent Glass
- Mrs. Durham, were you going to school at the same time you were working in the mill?
- Flossie Moore Durham
- No, I didn’t get to go to school anymore. Sure didn’t.
- Mary Frederickson
- Had you gone to school when you lived on the farm?
- Flossie Moore Durham
- Yes, we went to school when they’d have any school. We went to school when we were all living on the farm. But no, I never got to go to school anymore. I always regretted that, but I had to work to make a living. And what I picked up, I picked up for myself the best I could. But all the children finished high school, and some of them went to college.
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