Add to ORKGThis interview is one of series conducted concerning the Oral History of Appalachia. Pauline Hairston was an African-American woman from West Virginia. She discusses: her experiences during World War II; her family and her husband\u27s family; rationing during World War II; moving to Delaware; working in a rayon company; working in an airplane factory; her husband\u27s service in the Navy; her brother\u27s service in the Army; a brief section on Franklin Roosevelt; raising her children; a black newspaper (the Afro American Digest); canning food; the end of the War; her education (including at Morris Harvey) and her husband\u27s education; her husband becoming a cabinet maker; her children; and her career in social work.https://mds.marshall....