- Collection:
- Working Lives Oral History Project
- Title:
- Interview with Catherine Bean
- Contributor to Resource:
- Bean, Catherine
Hamrick, Peggy - Date of Original:
- 1984-08-15
- Subject:
- Bean, Catherine--Interviews
Sharecropping--Alabama
Education--Alabama
Medical care--Alabama
Alabama--Religion
United States--Civilization--1970- - 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, Catherine Bean talks about her life in rural Alabama. Bean was born in 1922 in New Brockton, Coffee County Alabama. Her family was sharecroppers. They moved to Geneva County in 1910 and then to Birmingham in 1938. She attended Tuskegee University and taught school between Hartford and Geneva. She retired after she married James Garfield Bean, a sharecropper from Troy, Alabama. She describes sharecropping and its challenges. She also discusses having her childhood home burned. Bean taught school in Slocum and Cottonwood, Alabama. She had 30-40 children in her classroom and was the only teacher in the school. If someone got sick, the doctor would be summoned; there were no hospitals. Bean also discusses revivals in the area. She said they would sing and pray, and women would run the prayer service.
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/137
- 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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