Mrs. Margaret Cogwell, September 29, 1972

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Title	Mrs. Margaret Cogwell, September 29, 1972
Occupation/Interviewee	Restaurant owner, Farm wife
Interview Date	1972-09-29
Length of Interview	30 minutes
Listen to Interview	http://content.wsulibs.wsu.edu/flash/?aud=cogwell&img=bla
Subject	Cogwell, Margaret<br>Oral history -- United States<br>African Americans -- Washington (State) -- Olympia<br>African Americans -- Washington (State) -- Seattle<br>African American Churches -- History<br>Washington (State)--History--Anecdotes
Type	Interviews
Interview Location	United States--Washington--Seattle
Interviewer	Quintard Taylor
Abstractor	Margot H. Knight
Abstract	SIDE A 0 - 5 minutes She came from Newton, Kansas in 1910. Family background. How she came to Seattle. She ran a little restaurant on Seneca for a couple of years . 5 - 7 minutes Moved south of Olympia to Rochester in 1919. They raised strawberries, turkeys, and cucumbers. They farmed there until 1953 when she returned to Seattle . 7 - 12 minutes Black churches in Seattle. Her husband's family background. Work on the farm. She talks about her children . 12 - 16 minutes Most of the blacks lived in East Madison in Seattle in 1910. Most owned their homes. Well-known black families in Seattle. Black businesses. Visited- with relatives in Texas often . 16 - 21 minutes Entertainment--dances, church, picnics. Lodges in town. 21 - 26 minutes Her husband worked on the roads for the city. Blacks in Olympia. Mr. Barnette, who had a band, has a local park named after him . 26 - 30 minutes Her feelings about how children are raised differently nowadays .
Abstract Date	1979-05-28
Identifier	cogwell.rm
Collection	Black Oral History Interviews, 1972-1974 http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/finders/cass2.htm
Language	English
Format	Interview cassette tapes were converted to RealAudio files with a bit rate of 16Kbps and placed on a RealServer 8.0 streaming server at the Washington State University Libraries. In 2002, graduate students at the University of Washington's Information School described and uploaded these RealAudio files to a CONTENTdm server at the Washington State University Libraries.
Rights	For permission to publish, please contact Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (509) 335 - 6691.
Publisher	Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries http://wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masc.htm
Contributors	The Information School of the University of Washington: Eydie Detera, Jon Haupt, Tess Mayer, Margie Miller, Tammara Turner

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