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Jean Ousley: News Sources

Jean 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.

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Jean Ousley: General Shoe Company

Jean Ousley describes her mother Laura's first job out of high school.

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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: Manufacturing K-rations

Jean 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: "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.

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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 Association

Jean 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.

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