- Collection:
- Working Lives Oral History Project
- Title:
- Interview with Wyatt Barnfield
- Contributor to Resource:
- Barnfield, Wyatt
Hamrick, Peggy - Date of Original:
- 1984-07-12
- Subject:
- Barnfield, Wyatt--Interviews
Steel industry and trade--Alabama--Birmingham
Coal miners--Alabama--Birmingham
Coal miners--Race relations
Labor unions--Alabama--Birmingham
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, Wyatt Barnfield discusses moving to Birmingham, Alabama, in 1939, looking for work because his family was only able to get five cents per pound for cotton. He describes working in a steel mill and a coal mine in Birmingham. He discusses race relations in the mines, his decision to join union in 1945 and the eventual improvements made by the union.
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/226
- 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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