The HistoryMakers video oral history with Eugenia Fortes.
Community activist Eugenia Fortes was born on November 14, 1911, in Brava, in the Cape Verde Islands. She moved to New Bedford, Massachusetts, at age nine. In 1930, Fortes began working as a housekeeper for the next twenty-seven years. In 1945, she was asked to leave a beach in Hyannis Port, Massach...
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Chicago, Illinois :
The HistoryMakers,
[2016]
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