Ms. Emma Jackson on Employment
- Title:
- Ms. Emma Jackson on Employment
- Creator:
- Emma Jackson; Maureen Elgersman-Lee
- Date Created:
- 2003-04-30
- Description:
- Emma Jackson was born in Atlanta, Georgia, in 1941. She and her husband John Isaac Jackson had three children, and at the time of the interview she had been living in the Lewiston-Auburn area for forty five years. She spent the first ten years of her life in Maine doing domestic work, and then worked in the nursing field for thirty years, at a number of different facilities owned by Central Maine Medical Center. She discusses her life in Lewiston, challenges in finding housing she and her husband faced when they first moved to the area, prominent African American citizens and businesses in Lewiston, her husband’s career in area shoe factories, and her religious life and family history with Christ’s Temple Church.
- Subjects:
- Employment Church
- Location:
- Lewiston, ME
- Latitude:
- 44.10046614
- Longitude:
- -70.21470305
- Source:
- University of Southern Maine, Elgerman-Lee, Maureen and Jackson, Emma (2003). Home Is Where I Make It Oral History Project. 9.
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Digital Commons URL:
- https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/aa_hiwimi/9/
Source
- Preferred Citation:
- "Ms. Emma Jackson on Employment", We Exist Series 5, Digital Projects - University of Southern Maine Libraries & Learning
- Reference Link:
- acg-floating-204-197-4-76.acg.maine.edu/weexist5/items/we5_066.html
Rights
- Rights:
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License.
- Standardized Rights:
- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/