Bridges Digital Archive: Audio and Video Recordings

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Oral History

Abstract

In this interview, Alberta Kearney is the guest. At the start of her interview, she talks about her needing to move away with her father, stepmother, and brother so she would be able to finish school. During her stepmother’s pregnancy, who was only two years older than her, she stayed and helped until her siblings were born. Though her father and stepmother later left each other, Kearney always had a bond with her siblings. Later on in Texas, she was able to get a job working for a prohibition officer by taking care of her young son. After leaving a note when the boy was not home that she would be going to beauty school and would return, she was given until that Thursday to work at that home. After securing a job elsewhere after being unjustly fired and ignored by the woman, the latter wanted her to continue working. She left after telling the woman she had a job elsewhere and comforted the sad boy. Kearney studied in Paris, passed her state board exam, and later went to work in California with her new beauty license. While being invited to the People's Independent Church in Los Angeles and joining to sing in the choir, a man took a disturbing obsession with Kearney. After he tried to assault her and got married to her, Kearney left him at around five months pregnant as she had no love for him. The interview ends with Kearney looking at some notes she had written down.

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