Reminiscences of Esther Mae Scott : oral history, 1977.

Biographical Note

Domestic servant, singer

Scope and Contents

Family history; recollections of her grandfather, Monroe Prentiss, and his work as a plantation blacksmith, tenant farming; youth in Mississippi, playing guitar for a traveling minstrel show; impressions of Bessie Smith; work as a house maid for 27 years; beginning career as a singer in her seventies; physical and economic difficulties of later life

Subjects

• African American families.
• African Americans--Music.
• African American singers--Interviews.
• Danley, Theresa, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Household employees--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Scott, Esther Mae, 1893-1979.
• Singers--Interviews.

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