- Collection:
- Working Lives Oral History Project
- Title:
- Interview with Fannie Temple
- Contributor to Resource:
- Temple, Fannie
Hamrick, Peggy - Date of Original:
- 1984-07-31
- Subject:
- Temple, Fannie--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, Fannie Temple talks about the various jobs she's held, especially her work as a domestic, and she discusses her attitudes about the Depression and segregation. Temple worked as a domestic as a teenager and through the early years of her marriage. For example, she recalls cooking for a family of six when she was thirteen. She describes her employers as nice and accommodating, especially of her bringing her children to work. Temple also worked various factory jobs both in Alabama and Ohio. She was a core maker during World War II. She also worked for an insurance agency for a time. Temple says the Depression didn't seem to hit her family or her neighbors very hard. She wasn't hungry and she had clothes to wear, so she concludes, "I didn't have a thing to worry about." She didn't buy any food on credit; she made do with what she could afford. She also had a garden at home. Temple had no children of her own, but she raised two nieces and an orphan girl. Temple recalls the days of segregation. She says she just did what she was supposed to do and didn't try to buck the system. She didn't get involved in any marches because she didn't see the point. She says she just stuck to her church activities.
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/308
- 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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