Ann Davison and Margaret Harding
Recorded
June 15, 2021
Archived
June 15, 2021
38:13 minutes
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Id:
mby020787
Description
Margaret "Marty" Harding (84) talks to her friend Ann Davison (57) about her childhood as a sharecropper's daughter in rural Virginia, what it was like being the first member of her family to attend college, and her experience working on Capitol Hill.Subject Log / Time Code
AD asks MH where she was born. MH shares that she was born in Fredericksburg, Virginia.
MH talks about being the first person from her family to go to college after receiving a scholarship.
MH talks about living by herself at 19 years old at Dupont Circle.
MH talks about what she did for fun in Washington DC.
MH talks about seeing President Eisenhower's second inauguration.
AD asks if MH ever felt that she was treated differently because she was a woman.
MH talks about saving up her money in order to travel. She talks about exploring different museums in Europe and Asia.
MH talks about what she would study if she were to go back to university now.
MH says she never would have imagined life would be this good.
MH shows AD a photo of her sharecropper father showing her only daughter how to hide Easter eggs. AD thanks MH for sharing a little bit of her life story.
Participants
- Ann Davison
- Margaret Harding