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Selected Works of Elizabeth Clark-Lewis
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Downstairs, Upstairs in D.C.; How White Folk Looked to Those Who Served Them
The Washington Post (1994)
  • Elizabeth Clark-Lewis, Howard University
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Abstract
THEY CAME from Midnight, Mississippi, and Dawn, Virginia; from Knott, Texas, and Whynot, North Carolina. They are the African American women who migrated from the rural South to work as domestic servants in Washington in the early decades of this century.
Keywords
  • domestic workers;
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Publication Date
November 27, 1994
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Copyright 1994 The Washington Post
Citation Information
Elizabeth Clark-Lewis. "Downstairs, Upstairs in D.C.; How White Folk Looked to Those Who Served Them" The Washington Post (1994)
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/eclarklewis/1/