- Collection:
- Working Lives Oral History Project
- Title:
- Interview with Constance Jones Price
- Contributor to Resource:
- Price, Constance Jones
Kuhn, Cliff - Date of Original:
- 1984-07-18
- Subject:
- Price, Constance Jones --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, Constance Price talks about the efforts of her father, Walter W. Jones, to organize for the UMWA in Alabama. Price says the family came to Birmingham because prominent mine leader John L. Lewis asked her father to help organize the coal miners in the area. She recalls that her father's life was often in jeopardy because of his work organizing the union, but she says the whites usually looked after him, helped keep him safe. Price says she was always aware that her father was in danger. She remembers many nights when he was hiding out and wasn't able to come home, and her mother and the children would cry. They also worried when he had to go into the mines with inspectors because they had heard about the awful conditions and they had seen the fall out from mine accidents. She says Jones himself didn't do much mining in his lifetime; he was there because his father had been a miner. In fact, Jones urged his children to stay out of the mines. Price also talks briefly about living through the Depression, which she calls The Panic. She remembers the bread lines, but she says her family didn't go on relief. They raised animals and had a garden.
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- http://digitalcollections.libraries.ua.edu/cdm/ref/collection/u0008_0000003/id/223
- 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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