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Interview with Beatrice G. Marshall [Transcript]
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- 1981-06-11 (Creation)
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Transcript; 35 pages
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Beatrice Green Marshall, nee Beatrice Mae Green, was born in Arkansas in 1921, and grew up in Illinois. She attended Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. She came to Oregon to work in the Portland shipyards during World War II, but racial discrimination led her to quit in 1944. She attempted to find employment in Los Angeles, California, then returned to Illinois to complete her college education. She later returned to Portland. In 1947, she and Louie Edison Marshall were married; they later had four children.
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Transcript. This oral history interview with Beatrice G. Marshall was conducted by Madeline Moore and Christine Poole on June 11, 1981. In this interview, Marshall discusses her involvement in the National Youth Administration during World War II, then talks about her experiences as a Black woman worker in the Portland shipyards. She describes her machinist training in Indiana; speaks about being denied work for which she was qualified due to racial discrimination; and talks about working as a painter’s helper and a sweeper, which were the only jobs open to Black women. She talks about her life after the war, including the jobs she held. Complete transcript available (35 pages).
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Copyright for this interview is held by the Oregon Historical Society. Use is allowed according to the following statement: Creative Commons - BY-NC-SA, http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
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- Shipbuilding industry--Oregon--Portland
- World War, 1939-1945--Women--Oregon--Portland
- Women--Employment--Oregon--Portland
- Oregon Shipbuilding Corporation—Employees
- Henry J. Kaiser Company—Employees
- Kaiser Company (Portland, Or.)--Employees
- Kaiser Company, Inc. (Vancouver, Wash.)--Employees
- Commercial Iron Works (Portland, Or.)--Employees
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- Poole, Christine (Contributor)
- Cook, Sara (Contributor)