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Description
In this recording, Dora Quesada discusses her family's history in Arizona and their work in cattle ranching, mining, and freighting; medical care in Wickenburg, including the competency of the doctors available; her career as a nurse, including her time as a charge nurse in a newborn nursery, her first job as an office nurse in Wickenburg, her experiences as a military nurse, and racism in the medical field; her education, including school segregation, discrimination against students who couldn't speak English well, high school career, and time at St. Joseph's Hospital School of Nursing; learning English and her family's use of Spanish and English; and religion and the Catholic Church in Wickenburg.
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Title
- Dora Quesada Interview (Part I)
Contributors
- Melcher, Mary S. (Interviewer)
- Quesada, Dora Ocampo, 1921-1998 (Interviewee)
Date Created
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"Dora Quesada Interview (Part I)," Ocampo Family Papers, Accession #1999-02054, Arizona State University Library.