- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 online resource (7 video files (3 hr., 7 min.)) : sound, color.
- Summary
- Irma Josephine Barber was born Irma Josephine Mason on March 13, 1904 in New Orleans, Louisiana. Growing up Catholic in New Orleans, Barber enjoyed school and wanted to be a nun. When her father died, Barber drop out of school to support her family as a seamstress. The family moved to Chicago seeking greater opportunity in 1918, and Barber continued to sew. Barber lived in the Black Belt when the murder of a young black man at the 31st Street Beach triggered the infamous Chicago Race Riot of 1919. Later, after Barber's husband passed away, she went back to work at age forty-five for the Department of Forestry in Chicago, remaining there age eighty-three. Barber raised four children, all of whom earned advanced degrees and worked as teachers. Barber was member of St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church. She passed away on February 17, 2004 at the age of ninety-nine.
- Alternative Title
- History Makers video oral history with Irma Josephine Barber
- Irma Josephine Barber
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Internet videos.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Oral histories.
- Credits (note)
- Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- OCLC
- 994208896
- Title
The HistoryMakers video oral history with Irma Josephine Barber.
- Publisher
Chicago, Illinois : The HistoryMakers, [2016]
- Country of Producing Entity
United States. naf
- Playing Time
030700
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
video file
- Performer
Larry Crowe, interviewer.
- Credits
Videographer, Matthew Hickey.
- Event
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2003 March 18.
Recorded Chicago, Illinois 2003 March 26.
- Source of description
Vendor-supplied metadata.
- Connect to:
- Indexed Term
City Government Employee Seamstress.
- Added Author
Barber, Irma Josephine, 1904-2004, interviewee.
Crowe, Larry F., interviewer.
Hickey, Matthew, director of photography.
HistoryMakers (Video oral history collection), production company.