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1007/s12111-012-9220-7#citeas. Woodson, C. G. “The Negro Washerwoman, a Vanishing Figure.” The Negro Washerwoman, A Vanishing Figure, July 1930. https://www.journals...

Eliza Hall was an African American washerwoman interviewed for the Federal Writers Project in 1939. Eliza Hall was born around 1869 into a home in Walnut...

life she was married four times and had six children. Bates worked as a washerwoman for most of her life and supported generations of her family for most...

- Octogenarian Life History of Fernando Lemos Life story of a Negro Washerwoman Lucy and Delie Ivory Mary and Augustus DeRoy (Mary Worked in the Mines...

in 1939, Matt Wall was an older African American woman working as a washerwoman in Walnut Cove, North Carolina where she lived with her sister and several...

anyhow." Wall only stayed in school until she was old enough to work as a washerwoman. As an adult, Wall lived with her sister, grandchildren, and niece Edna...

around 1840 in Savannah, Georgia, and lived past age 99. She worked as a washerwoman for most of her life, working in various hotels around Georgia. She married...

was very young, leaving Bates’ mother to provide for the family as a washerwoman. Bates dropped out of school in the fourth grade to help her mother wash...

Eliza Hall was an African American washerwoman who was interviewed by Louise L. Abbitt in February 1939. Hall was born to a family of former slaves in...

of her life, but after contracting influenza she began to work as a washerwoman in her late age. Laura Summey was born on a cotton plantation to a slave...