T. Harry Williams Center for Oral History Collection

ABSTRACT

INTERVIEWEE NAME: Cindy Magee # 4700.0725

IDENTIFICATION: [1956 - ]; Case Manager and Volunteer Coordinator of the Volunteers of America Family Shelter

INTERVIEWER: Sharon DeLoach

PROJECT: Volunteers of America Series

DATE: October 1995 FOCUS DATES: 1960s - 1990s

ABSTRACT: public education in Mississippi in the early 1970s; racial violence in Mississippi; creation of private academies to avoid integration; drug abuse and domestic violence; daughter's illness; employed by child protection; fight with cancer; seeking shelter with Volunteers of America and its impact on her life; establishment of preschool for homeless children; impact of crack on the homeless population; relationship with her parents; using her home as a shelter; relationship with the homeless; role of God in her life

TAPES: T1052 TOTAL PLAYING TIME: 50 minutes

# PAGES TRANSCRIPT: 12

RESTRICTIONS: none