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Oral history interview with Constance Beaty [Sound Recording 02]
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- 1986-02-07 (Creation)
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Audiocassette; 00:09:39
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Nellie Constance Beaty, nee Allen, was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1910. Her father, William Duncan Allen, owned the Golden West Hotel, and later the Hotel Medley, both in Portland. In 1951, she and Hugh B. Beaty were married. She was a pianist and organist, and she also taught music in Texas. She later lived in Northern California. She died in 1996.
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Tape 1, Side 2. This oral history interview with Constance Beaty was conducted by Rick Harmon in Portland, Oregon, on February 7, 1986. In this interview, Beaty discusses her family background, her early life in Portland, and her childhood vacations in Seaview, Washington. She talks about the Golden West Hotel, which the first hotel in Portland to accommodate black people and was owned by her father, William Duncan Allen. She describes the interior furnishing of the hotel and talks about the clientele the hotel catered to. She discusses playing piano and organ; talks about her recreational and social activities as part of Portland's black community; and discusses her education in Portland. She closes the interview by talking about racial discrimination she experienced, and the impact her mother's death in 1924 had on her family.
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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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- Harmon, Rick (Contributor)