Description
Jeanne Reynolds grew up in Richmond in the 20s and 30s and worked as a second grade teacher in San Pablo during and after the war. She also worked as a secretary at the evening high school in Richmond in 1943, which provided an education to shipyard workers. Discusses: attitudes of the "locals" to the influx of newcomers during the war, including race-related issues, effect of the war on courtship/marriage/child-rearing, the tremendous changes in Richmond during the war, conditions in the classrooms, social life, postwar Richmond.