- Collection:
- Working Lives Oral History Project
- Title:
- Interview with Patrick Hughes, Jr.
- Contributor to Resource:
- Hughes, Patrick, Jr.
Hardy, Charles - Date of Original:
- 1984-08-10
- Subject:
- Hughes, Patrick, Jr.--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, Patrick Hughes recounts his family history, including his father's controversial work as a preacher that resulted in him being run out of Birmingham, Alabama. Hughes tells the story of his father's call to preaching, how he lived in Virginia and West Virginia before moving the family to Birmingham. He explains how his father's preaching got him in trouble. He told the black women in his congregation to stop having sex with their white bosses, and the women reported this to their bosses. The white men came after Hughes's father to lynch him, so he and a friend holed up in the friend's hardware store and protected themselves with shotguns. After this incident, the friend advised Hughes's father to leave Birmingham, so he moved to Colorado. [Tape also contains musical clips whose lyrics are not provided, but which are summarized in the transcript as the following: 1) "about being a Klansman and fighting for glory and liberty," 2) "about making cowboys and niggers our new game," and 3) "an anti-LBJ voice to 'Dixie' instrumental"]
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/244
- 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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