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Jean Ousley: News SourcesJean Ousley describes how her parents, Laura and Samuel Spriggs, used a radio and newspaper to keep up with current events during and after World War II.
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Jean Ousley: "Supporters of Mr. Roosevelt"Jean Ousley recounts what her parents, Laura and Samuel Spriggs, told her about their experiences during the Great Depression in the 1930s.
From Adina Langer
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Jean Ousley: Manufacturing K-rationsJean Ousley describes how her parents, Laura and Samuel Spriggs, left Georgia for Michigan during World War II, her father to begin military training and her mother to work in a Kellogg plant.
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Jean Ousley: "They bought this little house."Jean Ousley remembers her family homes in Hall County, Georgia, in the years after World War II.
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Jean Ousley: "Or because she was pretty?"Jean Ousley questions how her mother Laura was treated by a male surpervisor while she was working as a welder in a shipyard in California during World War II.
From Adina Langer
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Jean Ousley: "Mother must have been elegant!"Jean Ousley describes how items in her mother's "hope chest" suggested an exciting youth in the World War II era.
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Jean Ousley: American Rosie the Riveter AssociationJean Ousley explains how she became involved in the American Rosie the Riveter Association through her mother's experience as a home front worker during World War II.
From Adina Langer
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