- Collection:
- Working Lives Oral History Project
- Title:
- Interview with Alex Bryant
- Contributor to Resource:
- Bryant, Alex
McCallum, Brenda - Date of Original:
- 1984-06-26
- Subject:
- Bryant, Alex--Interviews
Agriculture--Alabama
Work environment--Alabama--Birmingham
Steel industry and trade--Alabama--Birmingham
Construction workers--Alabama--Birmingham
Convict labor--Alabama--Pratt
Republic Steel Corporation
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, Alex Bryant recalls his early life on the farm in Barbour County and says that he prefers rural life because his family always had plenty to eat and never had to ask anyone for anything. He eventually moved to Birmingham in 1918. Bryant talks about life during the Depression, working conditions in steel mills and his construction work. He recalls his early impressions of Birmingham and explains that the streets consisted of wooden blocks. He recalls that prison labor was used in the Pratt, Alabama, mines. He recounts the story of a prisoner who was sentenced to one month in Pratt for stealing a row of corn. He also discusses renting land from Republic Steel for 40 years and growing corn, cotton, peas, cows and more.
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/91
- 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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