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Booker, Angy

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Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Mesa Leadership talk with Angy Booker, Celia Burns, Susie Sato, 2003 November 1, 2006 March

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Identifier: MHM2005-027-042-1
Abstract Booker, Burns, and Sato ? all from well-known families who helped settle Mesa ? participate in a panel interview to talk about Mesa in the early 1900's. They each tell how their families came to Mesa and what they did for a living, including farming and cooking at a downtown armory. They discuss everyday life ? doing laundry by hand, swimming in the canals for recreation, and keeping cool without air-conditioning. Booker talks about being part of the first African-American family to live in...
Dates: 2003 November 1; Digitization: 2006 March

Oral history of Angy Booker, 2002 June 15, 2006 March

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Identifier: MSAoh-j638a-V02
Abstract Booker, born in Naco, Arizona, talks about her family's history and her experiences as an African American woman in early Mesa. Her great-grand parents were slaves, and her grandfather and father were Buffalo Soldiers in the army. Her mother did laundry for a living, including for the O.S. Stapley family. She describes early downtown Mesa and mentions some businesses such as Everybody's Drugstore, the post office, J.C. Penney's, the hospital, and some churches. Booker discusses race...
Dates: 2002 June 15; Digitization: 2006 March

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Agriculture -- Mesa (Ariz.) -- History 1
Central business districts -- Mesa (Ariz.) -- History 1
Frontier and pioneer life -- Mesa (Ariz.) 1
Japanese Americans -- Mesa (Ariz.) -- Interviews 1
Schools -- Mesa (Ariz.) -- History 1