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Creator/Title
Lewis, Alice Beauchamp, 1918-2006. Oral history, 2004. 12 pages.
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Content
Oral history of the life of Alice Beauchamp Lewis (1918-2006), conducted and transcribed by Juanita L. White for a project documenting the unique memories of elderly residents of Louisville, Kentucky's Dosker Manor. Lewis recounts her life as a young woman of color after moving to Louisville in the 1920s and living in "Foust Bottoms" on East Lee Street, going to Lincoln School and Gethsemane Baptist Church. Gethsemane was located on Floyd Street in Louisville. Lewis describes her baptism at age seven. Also included in the file is information about her brother, Rev. Albert Beauchamp, Sr., a minister at Mt. Sinai Baptist Church in Louisville, and the program for Lewis's funeral service.