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Oral history interview with Houston and Ella Overton

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The Overtons discuss growing up in separate African American communities in Murfreesboro, meeting one another at Holloway High School in 1941, and attending First Baptist Church.
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Sound
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Oral History
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Albert Gore Research Center

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Digital Library of Tennessee

Keywords

  1. African American Neighborhoods
  2. African American Schools
  3. African American Women
  4. African Americans
  5. Claiming Space
  6. Towns, Neighborhoods
  7. Women

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