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Emily S. MacLachlan

Also found in catalogs as Emily S. (Emily Stevens) MacLachlan.

1908– · Dates from the Library of Congress · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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By Emily S. MacLachlan

Oral history interview with Emily S. MacLachlan, July 16, 1974 interview G-0038, Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007).

MacLachlan, Emily S. · 2007 · University Library, UNC-Chapel Hill

Emily S. MacLachlan (born 1908), a Chapel Hill sociologist and social reformer, interviewed by Jacquelyn Hall and Hugh Brinton on July 16, 1974 for the Southern Oral History Program. She was raised in Jackson, Mississippi, in the 1910s and 1920s, and opens with family history, dwelling on a mother raised in a Methodist minister's household with liberal social views. She also discusses the Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching, relief work resettling the unemployed in Georgia, and the balance of work and family. Ninety-five minutes.

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