Oral history with Ms. Juanita Wilkins

              Oral history with Ms. Juanita Wilkins
F341.5 . M57 vol. 747, pt. 2
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Biography
Born on January 27, 1966, in Natchez, Mississippi, to Elisha and Vera Wilkins, Ms. Juanita Wilkins was the eleventh of twelve children. She was graduated from high school in Natchez, and left two weeks later, moving to Dallas, Texas, where one of her sisters lived. From 1986 to 1992, she lived in Dallas, working in a restaurant and later in a government warehouse.
In January 1992, Ms. Wilkins moved to the Mississippi Gulf Coast; she has worked at a nursing home, a hotel laundry, and a restaurant, washing dishes. Ms. Wilkins enjoys writing.
Table of Contents
I. Childhood
II. Poverty and hunger
III. Attending public school in Natchez, Mississippi
IV. Moving to Dallas, Texas
V. Held up at gunpoint
VI. Working in a warehouse
VII. Learning to drive
VIII. Mississippi Gulf Coast, 1992
IX. Working at a nursing home
X. Working at Holiday Inn
XI. Working at a restaurant
XII. Assault and battery
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