- Collection:
- Working Lives Oral History Project
- Title:
- Interview with Howard McAdory
- Contributor to Resource:
- McAdory, Howard
Hamrick, Peggy - Date of Original:
- 1984-08-24
- Subject:
- McAdory, Howard--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, Howard McAdory recounts his life as a coal miner, his involvement in the UMWA (United Mine Workers of America) and the multiple dangers associated with mining. He also defines the mining terms "sounding the top" and "dead work." McAdory recalls an explosion in one of the mines that burned his father and resulted in scars around his neck, face and arms. He decided that if his Daddy would go back in the mines, he would work in the mines. He first went into the mines at 16, with his father, who showed him how to lay tracks. McAdory worked for the WPA and thought FDR did very well. He said the Depression was pretty rough but didn't bother him too much because he had a job and little jobs on the side. He didn't have a family at the time, so it didn't go too hard on him. Throughout his career as a miner, McAdory worked in coal mines, ore mines and drove mules in the mines. He eventually acquired black lung and was given a pension.
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/128
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
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- Original Collection:
- Working Lives Oral History Project
- Contributing Institution:
- William Stanley Hoole Special Collections Library
- Rights:
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