Patterson Harris, Shelia 2022-11-14
In this first interview with Shelia Patterson Harris, she speaks about her childhood and homelife, her family and the traditions and values her parents instilled in her. She provides information about her great-grandmother moving to Lubbock and living in the Flats, along with her mother being born in the Chatman Hill area. She talks about growing up in that neighborhood and the thriving connected community she witnessed. Patterson Harris outlines her primary and secondary education (including having Mae Simmons as a second grade teacher). She speaks on the integration and desegregation issues she faced while in junior high and high school. She explains interests in school, including choir and speech, touches on her college education at North Texas State, and the interview concludes with remembrances of her father’s work when she was young.
General Interview Information
Interviewee Name: Shelia Patterson Harris
Additional Parties Recorded:
Date: November 14, 2022
Location: Lubbock, Texas
Interviewer: Elissa Stroman
Length: 01:10:58 (1 hour 10 minutes)
Abstract
Introduction and background information; childhood; Her great-grandmother’s history and experiences in Lubbock; Foods and recipes her family had; her mother’s job; Patterson Harris’s childhood education; Integration and Mae Simmons; The community she lived in; things she noticed about integration; What Lubbock was like during her childhood; Lubbock Tornado; her childhood interests; Going to college; getting a job in Lubbock after college
Access Information
Original Recording Format: born digital
Recording Format Notes: patrons may listen to audio in our reading room
Transcript: transcript available on dspace <https://hdl.handle.net/10605/374111 >
Related Interview: Patterson Harris, Shelia 2022-12-08, and Patterson Harris, Shelia 2022-12-19, and Patterson Harris, Shelia 2023-01-23
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