Interview with Faye Massey, April 9, 1990

Partial Transcript: Lets start with anything that you know about your mother's parents.

Segment Synopsis: Ms. Massey shares information on her family's background, including her grandmother's psychic tendencies.

Keywords: Psychic; Slaughtering Animals

Subjects: American Indianans; Butchers; Corbin (Ky.); Signs and symbols; Tea Leaves; Witchcraft

Partial Transcript: Lets go on to your mom. Her name was Erma.

Segment Synopsis: Ms. Massey talks about her mother's background and their home life in a mountain shack.

Keywords: Moonshine; Mountain Shack

Subjects: Abusive men; Dropouts; Runaway children

Partial Transcript: What kinds of things did you eat?

Segment Synopsis: Ms. Massey talks about what mealtime was like at home and going to church.

Keywords: Holy Roller; Mealtimes

Subjects: Church; Game and game-birds; Hunting; Religion

Partial Transcript: So do you recall how the decision was made for your mom to move up?

Segment Synopsis: Ms. Massey describes her fears in moving to Cincinnati and her initial reactions.

Subjects: Discrimination; Over-the-Rhine (Cincinnati, Ohio)--History; Prejudice; Racism

Partial Transcript: Did your family have any attitudes about politics?

Segment Synopsis: Ms. Massey explains that education for women was not important in her family

Keywords: Education was not important; Family Disagreement

Subjects: Discipline of Children; Education; Religious discrimination

Partial Transcript: When did you start school? What was school like?

Segment Synopsis: Ms. Massey remembers being in school, feeling discriminated against, and dropping out to get married.

Keywords: School Games; School Subjects

Subjects: Clothing; Discrimination; Dropouts; Education; Prejudice

Partial Transcript: Would you have gone back had you had the chance?

Segment Synopsis: Ms. Massey talks about getting married and her husband leaving here for another woman.

Keywords: In-Laws

Subjects: Adultery; Dating (Social customs); Dropouts; Marriage; Pregnancy; Wedding

Partial Transcript: When your husband left, how did you support yourself?

Segment Synopsis: Ms. Massey talks about getting her first job after her husband left.

Keywords: Bartender; Bowling Alley; Finding a Job

Subjects: Child Support; Single Parent

Partial Transcript: Let me take you back a little bit. Here you were growing up with your grandmother. Who told you about the facts of life?

Segment Synopsis: Ms. Massey talks about being pregnant and her experience in childbirth.

Keywords: Facts of Life

Subjects: Childbirth; Clinics; Labor; Medical Care; Pregnancy; Sex Education

Partial Transcript: I wanna go back for one other think I forgot to ask you. Do you know how your parents met?

Segment Synopsis: Ms. Massey talks about her role in serving her community.

Keywords: Neighborhood Service; Welfare Rights Group

Subjects: Low-income housing

Partial Transcript: What do you think is easy for you about your job?

Segment Synopsis: Ms. Massey talks about completing her education and earning a social work degree.

Keywords: Adult Education Center; General education development; Women's Groups

Subjects: Appalachian (People); Education; Events; Social Work

Partial Transcript: You've also done some work with a support group for family and friends for people that have family in jails.

Segment Synopsis: Ms. Massey shares her involvement in the prison support group stemming from her own son's incarceration.

Keywords: Prison Support Group

Subjects: Prisons

Partial Transcript: So how long have you been doing the West End Neighborhood Organization?

Segment Synopsis: Ms. Massey talks about her commitment to the neighborhood and the hopes she has for her community.

Keywords: West End Neighborhood Organization; Women's Movement

Subjects: Discrimination; Feminism; Gender discrimination

Partial Transcript: Being part Cherokee do you really relate to the Native American community?

Segment Synopsis: Ms. Massey talks about her heritage as a Native American. She talks about her interest in Shamanism and the Occult.

Subjects: Native Americans; Occult; Shamanism

Partial Transcript: Vietnam, I was strongly against Vietnam.

Segment Synopsis: Ms. Massey talks about her feelings towards the Vietnam War and her current living arrangement with her son's father.

Keywords: Anti-War

Subjects: Hippies; Human rights workers; Sex roles; Vietnam War

Partial Transcript: Going to Northern, what do you think of the rest of the student body?

Segment Synopsis: Ms. Massey talks about her experience at NKU and looks retrospectively at her life.

Keywords: Ignorance of Youth

Subjects: Northern Kentucky University