Audio recording clip of interview with Alma Whitney by Claytee D. White, March 3, 1996
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Whitney, Alma White, Claytee D
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Part of an interview with Alma Whitney by Claytee White on March 3, 1996. Whitney describes her experiences as a maid and discrimination in her job.Tell me some of the regular kinds of problems that maids run in to? When you where a maid and as a supervisor, tell me some of the problems that the women encountered. Well, I can tell you a little incident I had when I was doing maid work. I was working at night at the time and, you know, people, they think because you're black that's all you want to do is steal. So, this particular time, now, I was working in an area and the lady had missed some money. So, she didn't come to me and ask me, she just say the maid had taken some money of hers. When security came to me and asked me, I told him that I 12 hadn't turned the room down. The lady wouldn't let me in the room. So, I didn't turn the room down that particular night. So, the next day, I did turn her room down and she said that I had taken her money, but the thing was, her husband took the money and she wasn't women enough to find out from him, she just assumed that I took it. So then, when they came and asked me, I told
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