- Collection:
- Working Lives Oral History Project
- Title:
- Interview with James Armstrong
- Contributor to Resource:
- Armstrong, James, 1923-2009
Kuhn, Cliff - Date of Original:
- 1984-07-16
- People:
- Armstrong, James, 1923-2009--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, Armstrong discusses growing up in the country; he was born in Dallas County, Alabama. He entered the service in 1943 and learned to cut hair; he eventually established a barbering business in Birmingham. Armstrong describes segregation in Birmingham, the role Fred Shuttlesworth played in the Civil Rights Movement in Birmingham and the eventual integration of buses, lunch counters, parks and schools. He describes segregated buses and harassment by the local police force. He also recalled attempting to register to vote. He was charged a poll tax each time and was asked to recite the Constitution, supply the physical address of Alabama senators, know the number of bubbles in a bar of soap or the number seeds in a watermelon.
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/131
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
- Images are in the public domain or protected under U.S. copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code), and both types may be used for research and private study. For publication, commercial use, or reproduction, in print or digital format, of all images and/or the accompanying data, users are required to secure prior written permission from the copyright holder and from archives@ua.edu. When permission is granted, please credit the images as Courtesy of The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections.
- Original Collection:
- Working Lives Oral History Project
- Contributing Institution:
- William Stanley Hoole Special Collections Library
- Rights:
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