- Collection:
- Working Lives Oral History Project
- Title:
- Interview with George Brown
- Contributor to Resource:
- Brown, George
Kuhn, Cliff
McCallum, Brenda - Date of Original:
- 1983-04-25
- Subject:
- Brown, George--Interviews
Police brutality--Alabama--Birmingham
Work camps--Alabama--Birmingham
Work environment--Alabama--Birmingham
Steel industry and trade--Alabama--Birmingham
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, George Brown describes his early life in Selma, Alabama, and his move to Birmingham for a job. Brown explains that Birmingham had a rough reputation. He recounts being beaten, for no reason, by the local police force. He recalls living in a work camp, sharing housing with other families, and having no privacy. He recounts the working conditions and describes working poison gases in the mill. He goes on to describe the rise of unions in the steel mills. He also discusses singing at work and communicating through song in the mills.
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/298
- 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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