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California Audiovisual Preservation Project (CAVPP)
Foster discusses Cherokee County, Texas, 1920s-1930s: rural life, Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, holiday traditions; move to Richmond, Calif., 1944; shipyard hiring discrimination; work at Leo's Defense Diner, 1944-1945; postwar housing in Richmond; Parchester Village, 1950s; discussion of decline of downtown Richmond in 1950s-1960s, Richmond in the 1980s. Interviewed for On the Waterfront: an Oral History of Richmond, California.
Foster discusses Cherokee County, Texas, 1920s-1930s: rural life, Colored Methodist Episcopal Church, holiday traditions; move to Richmond, Calif., 1944; shipyard hiring discrimination; work at Leo's Defense Diner, 1944-1945; postwar housing in Richmond; Parchester Village, 1950s; discussion of decline of downtown Richmond in 1950s-1960s, Richmond in the 1980s. Interviewed for On the Waterfront: an Oral History of Richmond, California.