- Collection:
- Southern Journey Oral History Collection
- Title:
- Georgia - Albany: Jeffrey Haile Interviewee
- Contributor to Resource:
- Dent, Thomas C.
- Date of Original:
- 1991-07-31
- Subject:
- African Americans
Civil rights
Civil rights demonstrations
Education
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Music - Location:
- United States, Florida, Marion County, Ocala, 29.1872, -82.14009
United States, Georgia, Dougherty County, Albany, 31.57851, -84.15574
United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798 - Medium:
- sound recordings
- Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- Tom Dent interviews Jeffrey Haile in Albany, Georgia. Haile is the General Manager of Channel 12 in Albany. Dent explains the project he is undertaking. Haile says that he was unaware of Albany's participation in the movement until he moved there. Haile read the book Blue Highways by William Least Heat-Moon, which inspired Dent, while he was in college. Originally from Ocala, Florida, he talks why he chose to attend Georgia Southern University, and describes his university experience. He worked full time managing a bar and restaurant while he attended the university. He talks about his family history. His father was a doctor and his mother was a lab technician; they divorced when he was thirteen. He attended a high school evenly split between Black and White, with predominantly Black teachers. The school has changed significantly since his time there. He recalls a Ku Klux Klan march planned in Ocala in the early 1970s. It never happened because the Black community banded together. Communities in Florida with diverse populations of ownership also display more racism, as Whites feel they are being nudged out, Haile says. They discuss their perceptions of racism in Florida, including St. Augustine. Haile talks about the power of the Black community in Atlanta, which is seen as a model. He talks about visiting Atlanta and the King Center for Social Change. He talks about weighing the possibility of attending college in Atlanta when deciding where he should go. He toured as a drummer and did voice over work. He switched became frustrated with the music program at Georgia Southern. He talks about the music he likes. He played timpani and was Principal Percussionist in the Georgia Southern Symphony, and talks about how he grew to love symphonic music. He returned to Florida after college and touring for two years with the band Black Diamond. He worked as an account executive for a cable company in Ocala for a year. He moved to Albany to work for Cox Cable. He talks about his band. They played for both Black and White audiences throughout the South.
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitallibrary.tulane.edu/islandora/object/tulane:53889
- Contributing Institution:
- Amistad Research Center
- Rights:
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