- Collection:
- Working Lives Oral History Project
- Title:
- Interview with Clifton Pritchett
- Contributor to Resource:
- Pritchett, Clifton
Hamrick, Peggy - Date of Original:
- 1984-07-26
- Subject:
- Pritchett, Clifton--Interviews
- Location:
- United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249
- Medium:
- interviews
transcripts - Type:
- Sound
Text - Format:
- audio/mpeg
image/jpeg - Description:
- In this interview, Clifton Pritchett describes growing up in rural Alabama and his move to Birmingham. He was born in 1907 in Union Springs, Bullock County, Alabama. His father was a sharecropper and his mother worked in the home. Pritchett moved to Birmingham in 1946. He worked at the TCI Steel Mill, as a farmer, "delivery boy," and a bricklayer's assistant. He was a member of the union (CIO). He describes life in rural Alabama. He discusses his early education, sharecropping, medical care and recreation. He also talks about the difficulties in keeping the children fed and clothed. When times were tough, children were often hired out so that the family could get a little extra money. Before moving to Birmingham, he had never visited the city but had heard of it. He recalls the day he arrived and was struck that he was surrounded by people who were not dressed in big boots, overalls and jumpers. Pritchett talks about the positive and negative aspects of Birmingham: he likes having more places to go but adds that there's also more fighting, stealing and robbing in Birmingham. He adds that he never had a problem dealing with segregation. He never thought too much about it.
The digitization of this collection was funded by a gift from EBSCO Industries. - Metadata URL:
- http://digitalcollections.libraries.ua.edu/cdm/ref/collection/u0008_0000003/id/110
- Language:
- eng
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- Original Collection:
- Working Lives Oral History Project
- Contributing Institution:
- William Stanley Hoole Special Collections Library
- Rights:
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