Wilkinson, Maxine nee Lucas: Personal Story Girard KS to St Joe MO. Home Movie, c. 2002
Entry/Object ID
P2015.17.4
Description
Wilkinson, Maxine nee Lucas: Personal Story Girard KS to St Joe MO. c. 2002. Digital File (can be viewed with Windows Media Center). Home movie of interview with Maxine Lucas Wilkinson as an elderly woman. Still photos of other family members and events inserted in appropriate places in her diaglog. undated
Maxine was born in Girard, Kansas where her father worked in coal mining. When she was 7 years old they moved to St. Joseph, taking a train from Girard to Kansas City and the Inter Urban line to St. Joseph. There are still photos of the school house she attended in Girard and other black students. In the St. Joseph area, her people were farmers. She lived at 11th & Douglas and later at 6th & Lincoln in St. Joseph. She went to Bartlett High School. She married Sherman Wilkinson and had four children. Sherman became President of a local Union. They lived on 21st Street. There are photos of her mother, Pearl and of her children and their descendants taken at various birthday parties for her.
