Interview wtih Ethel Tate

Ethel Rogers Tate (1904-1994) is interviewed by Lorraine Crittenden on May 20, 1986 as a part of the Western North Carolina Tomorrow Black Oral History Project. Tate was born in 1904 in East LaPorte. Her father worked in mica mines and the children helped. Tate talks about schooling, the Depression, wars, her experience with the Civil Rights movement and racial inequality. She and her husband Millard "Miller" Tate (1902-1982) owned a car and their house in the thirties. He was a farmer and a truck driver. After her children were grown, Tate worked as a maid at Western Carolina University