Interview with Gladys Harvey
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- Title:
- Interview with Gladys Harvey
- Date:
- 2017
- Interviewer:
- Historic Charleston Foundation
- Interviewee:
- Harvey, Gladys
- Description:
- Interview by April Wood of Gladys G. Harvey, a woman who grew up in the North Central neighborhood. Her father was carpenter and also a pastor of Gethsemane Church and her son is the current pastor of the church. Ms. Harvey describes her experience growing up as a pastor's daughter and how her father was very protective of her and her siblings. She recalls shopping for clothes and also the neighborhood grocery stores. She also discusses the Charleston Hospital Workers strike and how she felt when Martin Luther King was killed, and about her having gotten pregnant at 16 and had to leave Burke High School for a private school in Denmark, SC. She reminisces about lunches after church on Sundays and how this was the biggest event of the week. There was a lot of cross over between Gethsemane Baptist Church and New Israel Reformed Episcopal Church as neighbors, especially after Sunday services. Ms. Harvey has had the opportunity to travel a lot in more recent years and has enjoyed this opportunity. Grants from both the South Carolina Humanities Commission and the Employees Community Fund of Boeing allowed HCF to proceed with this initiative and several oral history interviews have been conducted that focus on specific neighborhoods and the changes these residents have experienced over time.
- Collection Title:
- Historic Charleston Foundation Oral History Project
- Contributing Institution:
- Historic Charleston Foundation
- Media Type:
- Oral Histories
- Series:
- Changing Neighborhoods
- Personal or Corporate Subject:
- Harvey, Gladys G.--Interviews
- Topical Subject:
- Neighborhoods--South Carolina--Charleston, African Americans--South Carolina--Charleston--Social life and customs
- Geographic Subject:
- Charleston (S.C.)--Social life and customs, Charleston (S.C.)--History--20th century
- S.C. County:
- Charleston County (S.C.)
- Language:
- English
- Shelving Locator:
- 2017.002.020
- Date Digital:
- 2017-10-05
- Digitization Specifications:
- MP3 derivative audio created with Adobe Premiere Elements; Archival Master in Universal Disk format.
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Copyright Status Statement:
- Copyright © Historic Charleston Foundation
- Access Statement:
- All Rights Reserved.
- Access Information:
- For more information contact Archivist; Historic Charleston Foundation; P.O. Box 1120; Charleston, SC 29402.
- Admin ID:
- 246467
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