Reminiscences of Catherine Cardozo Lewis : oral history, 1980.

Biographical Note

Businesswoman

Scope and Contents

Childhood in Washington, D.C.; influence of family background and education; husband's educational background and career; involvement in union, cooperative, and volunteer movements in Washington, DC during 1930s and 1940s; general manager Cardozo Sisters Hairstylists, 1949-1965; thoughts on feminist and Black power movements

Subjects

• African Americans--Segregation.
• African Americans--Social conditions.
• African American women executives--Interviews.
• Greenlee, Marcia M., interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Hairdressing.
• Interviews.
• Lewis, Catherine Cardozo, 1904-
• Oral histories (literary works)
• United States--Race relations.
• Washington (D.C.)--Social life and customs.
• Women's rights.

Access Conditions

Copyright by narrator and Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe College