Connie Moore

Photographs ©1996 Malcolm J. Wilson

A second-generation urban Appalachian, Connie Moore has lived in Cincinnati's Lower Price Hill neighborhood since she was about three. When she was fifteen, she dropped out of high school to take care of her mother, who died of cancer in 1979. Her daughter Sarah was born a few years later, and since then Connie, a single parent, has been working to improve her prospects and Sarah's. She earned a G.E.D., took some college courses, and is now working as an intern in the offices of the Urban Appalachian Council.  

"My daughter is my inspiration. I want to give her everything I didn't have and make a better life for her, as well as myself. I want her to grow up and go to college and do everything that she wants to do." 

Perceptions of Home: The Urban Appalachian Spirit ©1996 The Urban Appalachian Council (now Urban Appalachian Community Coalition)

Photographs ©1996 Malcolm J. Wilson; Interviews ©1996 Don Corathers

Photographs digitized by the Cincinnati and Hamilton County Public Library. Genealogy & Local History Department.