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Day, Phoebe Mitchell

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Day, Phoebe Mitchell (1895-1985): Interview and memoir

 Collection — Container: Tape et al
Identifier: O-D333
Scope and Contents BLACK COMMUNITY PROJECT Phoebe Day discusses her life in Springfield: her neighbors and neighborhood, her beauty shop business, marriages, and her husband's furniture refinishing business. She recalls her treatment as an office building matron at the Centennial Building under the administrations of Secretaries of State Edward Barnett and Paul Powell. She recalls the 1908 Springfield race riot and the destruction it caused, invasion of her home by soldiers, and efforts to protect the...
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