- Collection:
- Working Lives Oral History Project
- Title:
- Interview with Ada Tolbert
- Contributor to Resource:
- Tolbert, Ada
Hamrick, Peggy - Date of Original:
- 1984-08-29
- Subject:
- Tolbert, Ada--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, Ada Tolbert recalls attending Industrial High School, later called Parker. She explains that they were taught a good balance of regular academic subjects and practical skills. They took such classes as cooking and sewing (for the girls) and carpentry and printing (for the boys). She also remembers being taught by later famous musicians Fess Whatley and Malachi Wilkerson. Tolbert herself eventually became a teacher. She taught at the Slate School and also at several company schools. She says the company schools were much better than the ones in the county.
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/75
- 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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