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- Identifier:
- 4224.HairstonCora.AudioInt.5.3.16
- Title:
- Oral history of Cora Hairston
- Date:
- 2016-05-03
- Creator:
- Hairston, Cora
- Contributor:
- Hilliard, Emily
- Subject:
- Gospel music, Hairston, Cora, African Americans--Appalachian Region, Rhythm and blues music, foodways, Coal mines and mining, Foxx, Redd, 1922-1991, Soul music, Food habits, West Virginia--Fiction
- Location:
- Logan (W. Va.), Chief Logan State Park (W. Va.), Logan County (W. Va.)
![["Cora Lee (Phillips) Hairston (b. 1942, Sarah Anne, WV) is a musician and writer from Logan County, West Virginia. She and her husband Fred, also a musician, currently live in Omar, West Virginia. Cora Hairston is the author of two novels, Faces Behind the Dust and Hello World Here Comes Claraby Rose, both fictionalized accounts based on her childhood growing up in a Black coal camp. She spoke about her childhood, her music, and her writing practice."]%](/image/4224HairstonCoraIntTranscript5316/0.jpg)
- Identifier:
- 4224.HairstonCora.IntTranscript.5.3.16
- Title:
- Transcript of oral history of Cora Hairston
- Date:
- 2016-05-03
- Creator:
- Hairston, Cora
- Contributor:
- Hilliard, Emily
- Subject:
- foodways, Food habits, Hairston, Cora, West Virginia--Fiction, Foxx, Redd, 1922-1991, Coal mines and mining, African Americans--Appalachian Region
- Location:
- Chief Logan State Park (W. Va.), Logan County (W. Va.)
