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Arminta Foushee - On Black Churches (clip)

Interviewed by Kathryn Wall on June 23, 2022

Arminta Foushee - On Black Churches (clip)

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Oral history interview of Foushee, Arminta conducted by Wall, Kathryn on June 23, 2022 at Home of Arminta Foushee, Durham, NC.

Citation: Marian Cheek Jackson Center, “Arminta Foushee - On Black Churches (clip),” From the Rock Wall, accessed November 21, 2024, https://fromtherockwall.org/oral-histories/arminta-foushee-on-black-churches.

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 Arminta Foushee - On doing church announcements (clip)

Arminta Foushee: But I also remember, I don't know how I got pegged with this job. So in most Black churches on Sunday mornings you have the announcements that are read and said, and so I did the announcements every Sunday from the time I was 12 years old until I went off to college. And I always…

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