- Collection:
- Working Lives Oral History Project
- Title:
- Interview with Johnny Phillips
- Contributor to Resource:
- Phillips, Johnny
Hamrick, Peggy - Date of Original:
- 1984-08-16
- Subject:
- Phillips, Johnny--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, Phillips briefly discusses living through the Depression in Birmingham, Alabama. Phillips explains that he took no help from anybody during the Depression. He didn't take advantage of the Red Cross or work for the WPA; he grew a garden and raised animals. He says his family bought coal and also burned their own wood. He mentions hoboing and how dangerous it was, but he says he never hoboed. Phillips explains that he left Birmingham and went up north in the forties and fifties for work. Work was scarce in Birmingham, but he got a job at a Ford plant in Chicago.
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/247
- 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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