- Collection:
- Working Lives Oral History Project
- Title:
- Interview with Reverend Maxwell McBride
- Contributor to Resource:
- McBride, Maxwell
Kuhn, Cliff - Date of Original:
- 1984-08-01
- Subject:
- McBride, Maxwell --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, Maxwell McBride discusses his work on the battery at a coke plant as well as his religious faith. McBride worked on the battery making coal into coke. He describes the work as intensely hot as well as bad for the eyes because the light from the furnaces was so bright. He explains the process of making coke in great detail. McBride remembers being in an explosion once. He was badly burned and his eyes temporarily hurt. He recalls being treated by the company at Lloyd Noland Hospital and paid in full for working half days during his approximately month-long recovery. McBride also remembers the union coming in. He says some resisted because of the money involved. He discusses the manufacturing boom that came with World War II. He explains that women worked there during that period, and he didn't mind at all. McBride concludes by talking about his conversion experience to Christianity and his work as a preacher, starting in the early forties.
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/187
- 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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