Rosa Jeter oral history interview, 2007 June 14
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In this oral history interview, Rosa Jeter discusses her educational experiences at Tinker Creek Elementary, McBeth Elementary, and Sims High schools in Union County, South Carolina, commenting specifically on school lunches, closings, study habits, and her walking several miles to school. Jeter also discusses her husband Frank Jeter and his work for the federal government, which enabled their family to live abroad for several years in Mexico, the Philippines, and Crete. One of 11 children, Rosa Savage Jeter was born in 1940, in Union County, South Carolina. Tom Crosby interviewed Rosa Jeter on June 14, 2007. Interview covers Jeter's education at Tinker Creek and McBeth Elementary Schools (of the town of Whitmire, S.C.) from the late 1940s to the mid-1950s and at Sims High School from 1955 to 1959.
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Crosby, Tom, 1940- (interviewer)South Caroliniana Library. Office of Oral History
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