{"response":{"docs":[{"id":"alm_u0008-0000003_23","title":"Interview with William E. Mitch","collection_id":"alm_u0008-0000003","collection_title":"Working Lives Oral History Project","dcterms_contributor":["Mitch, William E.","Kuhn, Cliff"],"dcterms_spatial":["United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249"],"dcterms_creator":null,"dc_date":["1984-06-27"],"dcterms_description":["In this interview Mitch recalls organizing unions in Alabama, beginning in the 1930s. Mitch's father was an organizer in the United Mine Workers of America of Indiana. The family moved to Alabama, where Mitch's father discovered that that there were no unions. Mitch describes company towns or mining camps, explaining that the miners rented from the employer and bought groceries from the employer. Many of the miners had never handled cash because they were paid with metal coinage that could only be redeemed at the company store. Mitch recalls various challenges in trying to establish labor unions in the South, including the inaccessibility of rural employees, threats of reprisal from employers and being required to hold meetings in secret. He added that local governments were also often anti-union because they were afraid that unions would \"run industry off.\" He later adds that workers \"had very little to lose. They weren't making a living anyhow, and they were ready to do anything.\" Mitch adds that without the advent of the New Deal and passage of the Wagner Act and National Labor Relations Act, \"we'd still be in the 1920s.\" Mitch believes coal miners are unique, in terms of race relations, solidarity and strong sense of loyalty. The race issue was not a big problem because the miners worked side by side. He adds that organizing could have never happened without the cooperation of black workers; black leaders and churches were key components in organizing. Mitch says that employers who resist unions fear loss of control, so the authority to hire and fire is most guarded. He adds that the Depression undermined the fear of losing control among workers. \"A man understands the need for the union... [but] he's got to work somewhere.\" Mitch also briefly explains the historical developments in coal mining. He describes strip mining, mechanization, mining house coal with mules, continuous mining and robbing pillars.","The digitization of this collection was funded by a gift from EBSCO Industries."],"dc_format":["audio/mpeg","image/jpeg"],"dcterms_identifier":null,"dcterms_language":["eng"],"dcterms_publisher":null,"dc_relation":["The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections"],"dc_right":["http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/"],"dcterms_is_part_of":["Working Lives Oral History Project"],"dcterms_subject":["Mitch, William E.--Interviews"],"dcterms_title":["Interview with William E. Mitch"],"dcterms_type":["Sound","Text"],"dcterms_provenance":["William Stanley Hoole Special Collections Library"],"edm_is_shown_by":null,"edm_is_shown_at":["http://digitalcollections.libraries.ua.edu/cdm/ref/collection/u0008_0000003/id/23"],"dcterms_temporal":null,"dcterms_rights_holder":null,"dcterms_bibliographic_citation":null,"dlg_local_right":["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."],"dcterms_medium":["interviews","transcripts"],"dcterms_extent":null,"dlg_subject_personal":null,"dcterms_subject_fast":null,"fulltext":null},{"id":"alm_u0008-0000003_91","title":"Interview with Alex Bryant","collection_id":"alm_u0008-0000003","collection_title":"Working Lives Oral History Project","dcterms_contributor":["Bryant, Alex","McCallum, Brenda"],"dcterms_spatial":["United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249"],"dcterms_creator":null,"dc_date":["1984-06-26"],"dcterms_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."],"dc_format":["audio/mpeg","image/jpeg"],"dcterms_identifier":null,"dcterms_language":["eng"],"dcterms_publisher":null,"dc_relation":["The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections"],"dc_right":["http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/"],"dcterms_is_part_of":["Working Lives Oral History Project"],"dcterms_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-"],"dcterms_title":["Interview with Alex Bryant"],"dcterms_type":["Sound","Text"],"dcterms_provenance":["William Stanley Hoole Special Collections Library"],"edm_is_shown_by":null,"edm_is_shown_at":["http://digitalcollections.libraries.ua.edu/cdm/ref/collection/u0008_0000003/id/91"],"dcterms_temporal":null,"dcterms_rights_holder":null,"dcterms_bibliographic_citation":null,"dlg_local_right":["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."],"dcterms_medium":["interviews","transcripts"],"dcterms_extent":null,"dlg_subject_personal":null,"dcterms_subject_fast":null,"fulltext":null},{"id":"alm_u0008-0000003_328","title":"Interview with Lizzie Lopp","collection_id":"alm_u0008-0000003","collection_title":"Working Lives Oral History Project","dcterms_contributor":["Lopp, Lizzie","McCallum, Brenda"],"dcterms_spatial":["United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249"],"dcterms_creator":null,"dc_date":["1984-06-26"],"dcterms_description":["In this interview, Lizzie May Lopp talks about her life first in the country and then in Birmingham, especially during the Depression. Lopp talks about growing up on a farm. She worked from the age of five because her family needed the help. She mentions hoeing and picking cotton. Her brothers left the farm to work in the steel plant in Birmingham, and she also moved to town with her sisters. Her husband worked in the steel plant, and he eventually went blind because of the work he was doing. She says the company didn't provide any benefits for him after he could no longer work. Lopp recalls how she survived during the Depression. She remembers \"soup wagons,\" as well as how people got aid from the Red Cross and worked for the WPA. She explains that the steel plant was no help to them during this time; they couldn't even get food on credit at the company commissary. She talks about how people went into the woods to get firewood to heat their homes or gathered coal off the railroad tracks. They had no electricity and no running water, also no indoor bathroom. She also remembers taking care of herself after her husband died. She worked as a maid and cook for white families. She says she prefers living in Birmingham to living in the country because there are more work opportunities.","The digitization of this collection was funded by a gift from EBSCO Industries."],"dc_format":["audio/mpeg","image/jpeg"],"dcterms_identifier":null,"dcterms_language":["eng"],"dcterms_publisher":null,"dc_relation":["The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections"],"dc_right":["http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/"],"dcterms_is_part_of":["Working Lives Oral History Project"],"dcterms_subject":["Lopp, Lizzie--Interviews"],"dcterms_title":["Interview with Lizzie Lopp"],"dcterms_type":["Sound","Text"],"dcterms_provenance":["William Stanley Hoole Special Collections Library"],"edm_is_shown_by":null,"edm_is_shown_at":["http://digitalcollections.libraries.ua.edu/cdm/ref/collection/u0008_0000003/id/328"],"dcterms_temporal":null,"dcterms_rights_holder":null,"dcterms_bibliographic_citation":null,"dlg_local_right":["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."],"dcterms_medium":["interviews","transcripts"],"dcterms_extent":null,"dlg_subject_personal":null,"dcterms_subject_fast":null,"fulltext":null},{"id":"alm_u0008-0000003_218","title":"Interview with Reverend Fred C. Jones","collection_id":"alm_u0008-0000003","collection_title":"Working Lives Oral History Project","dcterms_contributor":["Jones, Fred C.","Kuhn, Cliff"],"dcterms_spatial":["United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249"],"dcterms_creator":null,"dc_date":["1984-06-26"],"dcterms_description":["In this interview, the Reverend Fred C. Jones discusses his lifelong work in the mines, describing working conditions and the need for a union. Jones says he began working in the coal mines at the age of 14. He talks about the low wages the workers earned, especially as compared with how much the company would sell the coal for. He also recalls how if the mines filled up with water, the workers would have to spend a whole shift, sometimes more, bailing the water out by hand, earning no money for their trouble. He also recalls seeing or hearing about several men dying in the mines. Jones recounts the coming of the unions to Alabama. He says they needed them. At first, they had to meet in secret, and he knew of union men who were killed in the process. He explains that the unions were segregated but eventually unified in the interest of furthering their goals.","The digitization of this collection was funded by a gift from EBSCO Industries."],"dc_format":["audio/mpeg","image/jpeg"],"dcterms_identifier":null,"dcterms_language":["eng"],"dcterms_publisher":null,"dc_relation":["The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections"],"dc_right":["http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/"],"dcterms_is_part_of":["Working Lives Oral History Project"],"dcterms_subject":["Jones, Fred C.--Interviews"],"dcterms_title":["Interview with Reverend Fred C. Jones"],"dcterms_type":["Sound","Text"],"dcterms_provenance":["William Stanley Hoole Special Collections Library"],"edm_is_shown_by":null,"edm_is_shown_at":["http://digitalcollections.libraries.ua.edu/cdm/ref/collection/u0008_0000003/id/218"],"dcterms_temporal":null,"dcterms_rights_holder":null,"dcterms_bibliographic_citation":null,"dlg_local_right":["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."],"dcterms_medium":["interviews","transcripts"],"dcterms_extent":null,"dlg_subject_personal":null,"dcterms_subject_fast":null,"fulltext":null},{"id":"alm_u0008-0000003_236","title":"Interview with Willie Johnson","collection_id":"alm_u0008-0000003","collection_title":"Working Lives Oral History Project","dcterms_contributor":["Johnson, Willie","McCallum, Brenda"],"dcterms_spatial":["United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249"],"dcterms_creator":null,"dc_date":["1984-06-26"],"dcterms_description":["In this interview, Willie Johnson talks about life during the Depression, the Ku Klux Klan, his dealings with labor unions, and describes at length the conditions of the mines in which he worked. Johnson describes how his father, like many farmers, moved to the city to work. He and his father were both employed by TCI. Johnson never made it past the fifth grade because he needed to help the family make money, especially during the Depression. He explains that he admired the ideals of the labor unions, and as the United Steelworkers weren't present in Alabama yet, he went to work in the coal mines and joined the UMWA (United Mine Workers of America). Johnson discusses how the unions caused some problems. They divided the workers and were sometimes difficult to deal with. He describes how he began to see that the Walker Country UMWA would strike at times convenient for the workers to go home and do their planting. Johnson also discusses the conditions of the mines. He says they were dangerous and people often died in them. He describes the physical layout of the mines and talks about dealing with rats, keeping them out of their lunches. He talks about children working in the mines, often to help their parents, but they would have to sign a waiver keeping the mine from being responsible for them. Prisoners also worked in the mines for little money, and many of them saved that money so that they could buy property. Johnson describes the Ku Klux Klan's habit of running around scaring people but says he never heard of any violence in his area. He says he talked to one white man who claimed that the Klan wasn't organized around the purpose it came to have in that day. He says the man said it originated for the race, and that blacks should have their own Klan.","The digitization of this collection was funded by a gift from EBSCO Industries."],"dc_format":["audio/mpeg","image/jpeg"],"dcterms_identifier":null,"dcterms_language":["eng"],"dcterms_publisher":null,"dc_relation":["The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections"],"dc_right":["http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/"],"dcterms_is_part_of":["Working Lives Oral History Project"],"dcterms_subject":["Johnson, Willie--Interviews"],"dcterms_title":["Interview with Willie Johnson"],"dcterms_type":["Sound","Text"],"dcterms_provenance":["William Stanley Hoole Special Collections Library"],"edm_is_shown_by":null,"edm_is_shown_at":["http://digitalcollections.libraries.ua.edu/cdm/ref/collection/u0008_0000003/id/236"],"dcterms_temporal":null,"dcterms_rights_holder":null,"dcterms_bibliographic_citation":null,"dlg_local_right":["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."],"dcterms_medium":["interviews","transcripts"],"dcterms_extent":null,"dlg_subject_personal":null,"dcterms_subject_fast":null,"fulltext":null},{"id":"alm_u0008-0000003_275","title":"Interview with Leola Harris","collection_id":"alm_u0008-0000003","collection_title":"Working Lives Oral History Project","dcterms_contributor":["Harris, Leola","McCallum, Brenda"],"dcterms_spatial":["United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249"],"dcterms_creator":null,"dc_date":["1984-06-25"],"dcterms_description":["Leola Harris was born in 1919 in the Muscoda mining camp. She recalls growing up in the mining camp and describes the houses people lived in and the physical layout of the camp. She describes daily life in the camp and her early education in the company schools. Harris also recounts her later years as a school teacher in Birmingham. Harris recalls growing up during The Depression. She said her family received food (cheese, butter, flour, etc.) from the government. Of daily life in the camp, Harris recalls attending church in the mining camp, explaining that the women of the camp convinced the company to build the church. Different denominations would meet on alternating Sundays. She explains that the children of the camp received free medical and dental care from the company doctors and dentists. She also talks about blues and boogie-woogie music being played in the camp, by the miners. Harris explains that the children who grew up in mining towns were known as \"round the mountain gang.\" There was a certain stigma associated with being raised in the camp; many thought the children would never amount to anything as adults. In her discussion of unions in the camp, she said her father was not a union man and was considered a \"scab.\" Her father eventually died of emphysema (or silicosis).; Note: The first [00:08:30:00] of the second audio file is not transcribed.","The digitization of this collection was funded by a gift from EBSCO Industries."],"dc_format":["audio/mpeg","image/jpeg"],"dcterms_identifier":null,"dcterms_language":["eng"],"dcterms_publisher":null,"dc_relation":["The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections"],"dc_right":["http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/"],"dcterms_is_part_of":["Working Lives Oral History Project"],"dcterms_subject":["Harris, Leola--Interviews"],"dcterms_title":["Interview with Leola Harris"],"dcterms_type":["Sound","Text"],"dcterms_provenance":["William Stanley Hoole Special Collections Library"],"edm_is_shown_by":null,"edm_is_shown_at":["http://digitalcollections.libraries.ua.edu/cdm/ref/collection/u0008_0000003/id/275"],"dcterms_temporal":null,"dcterms_rights_holder":null,"dcterms_bibliographic_citation":null,"dlg_local_right":["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."],"dcterms_medium":["interviews","transcripts"],"dcterms_extent":null,"dlg_subject_personal":null,"dcterms_subject_fast":null,"fulltext":null},{"id":"alm_u0008-0000003_252","title":"Interview with Thelma Emmons","collection_id":"alm_u0008-0000003","collection_title":"Working Lives Oral History Project","dcterms_contributor":["Emmons, Thelma","McCallum, Brenda"],"dcterms_spatial":["United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249"],"dcterms_creator":null,"dc_date":["1984-06-25"],"dcterms_description":["In this interview, Thelma Emmons talks about her mother, Suberta Coleman, a member of the Alabama Women's Hall of Fame. Coleman was one of the first Alabamians to graduate from Fisk University, the first full-time African-American supervisor in a mining village and the first black Alabamian to study with Jane Addams in the Hull House in Chicago. Coleman was also a school teacher and principal for the Muscoda Camp schools. She describes her mother's work and the changes she made in the mining camp, such as teaching parents about nutrition and establishing a canning club. Emmons also served as a social worker in the camp; for her training, she was sent to Chicago to work with Jane Addams. Emmons also describes the company schools. She explains that these were excellent schools; money was taken out of each employee's check to support the school. They were able to pay teachers well so they often got the best teachers. Emmons was educated in the Muscoda School and went on to teach there. She also discusses living through The Depression. She recalls sewing classes provided by the Red Cross, and her mother also taught a butler class for \"people who wanted to improve themselves.\" Emmons eventually went on to teach in the Bessemer area until 1970.","The digitization of this collection was funded by a gift from EBSCO Industries."],"dc_format":["audio/mpeg","image/jpeg"],"dcterms_identifier":null,"dcterms_language":["eng"],"dcterms_publisher":null,"dc_relation":["The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections"],"dc_right":["http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/"],"dcterms_is_part_of":["Working Lives Oral History Project"],"dcterms_subject":["Emmons, Thelma--Interviews"],"dcterms_title":["Interview with Thelma Emmons"],"dcterms_type":["Sound","Text"],"dcterms_provenance":["William Stanley Hoole Special Collections Library"],"edm_is_shown_by":null,"edm_is_shown_at":["http://digitalcollections.libraries.ua.edu/cdm/ref/collection/u0008_0000003/id/252"],"dcterms_temporal":null,"dcterms_rights_holder":null,"dcterms_bibliographic_citation":null,"dlg_local_right":["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."],"dcterms_medium":["interviews","transcripts"],"dcterms_extent":null,"dlg_subject_personal":null,"dcterms_subject_fast":null,"fulltext":null},{"id":"alm_u0008-0000003_288","title":"Interview with Mack Gibson","collection_id":"alm_u0008-0000003","collection_title":"Working Lives Oral History Project","dcterms_contributor":["Gibson, Mack","Kuhn, Cliff"],"dcterms_spatial":["United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249"],"dcterms_creator":null,"dc_date":["1984-06-22"],"dcterms_description":["In this interview, Mack Gibson recalls his years as a coal miner. He talks about mining methods, working conditions and the various dangers associated with mining. He recalls seeing many men killed in the mine and says that while it never made him want to quit, it did make him more careful. Gibson also recalls The Depression in the interview. He says that people would often grow a little corn or cotton to help get by. He had a garden and raised hogs for extra money and food. Gibson talks about the first union organizers that came around, explaining that the meetings could not be held on company property and would often be held in the woods. He recalls seeing men beaten by a company deputy for saying they were too sick to work on a particular day. He also discusses prison labor that was used in the mines.","The digitization of this collection was funded by a gift from EBSCO Industries."],"dc_format":["audio/mpeg","image/jpeg"],"dcterms_identifier":null,"dcterms_language":["eng"],"dcterms_publisher":null,"dc_relation":["The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections"],"dc_right":["http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/"],"dcterms_is_part_of":["Working Lives Oral History Project"],"dcterms_subject":["Gibson, Mack--Interviews"],"dcterms_title":["Interview with Mack Gibson"],"dcterms_type":["Sound","Text"],"dcterms_provenance":["William Stanley Hoole Special Collections Library"],"edm_is_shown_by":null,"edm_is_shown_at":["http://digitalcollections.libraries.ua.edu/cdm/ref/collection/u0008_0000003/id/288"],"dcterms_temporal":null,"dcterms_rights_holder":null,"dcterms_bibliographic_citation":null,"dlg_local_right":["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."],"dcterms_medium":["interviews","transcripts"],"dcterms_extent":null,"dlg_subject_personal":null,"dcterms_subject_fast":null,"fulltext":null},{"id":"alm_u0008-0000003_210","title":"Interview with Cleatus and Louise Burns","collection_id":"alm_u0008-0000003","collection_title":"Working Lives Oral History Project","dcterms_contributor":["Burns, Cleatus","Burns, Louise","Kuhn, Cliff"],"dcterms_spatial":["United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249"],"dcterms_creator":null,"dc_date":["1984-06-12"],"dcterms_description":["In this joint interview Cleatus and Louise Burns discuss working conditions and mining methods in the Alabama coal mines, beginning in the 1930s (e.g. mining with mules). Cleatus Burns describes early labor movement efforts and recounts the eventual unionization of the mines. He also describes living in a company camp and some of the earliest union meetings. Mr. Burns also describes trying to organize the De Bardelben mines as well as union organizers being shot at by company guards. He explains that people who lived in the rural areas around the mines would often help union members by giving them food from their farms. According to Mr. and Mrs. Burns, Bankhead was the first mine to strike, due to low pay. Louise Burns describes growing up in a mining camp in Mississippi. She explains that women canned food in the summer and quilted in the winter. She also describes rural life, her early education and farming. Cleatus Burns says he liked mining; he explains that the pay was good, and the mines were cool in the summer and warm in the winter. He does admit that mining was dangerous, describing explosions, working in 18 inches of space and laboring in knee-deep water. Mr. and Mrs. Burns also describe life during the Depression, explaining that they don't know what people would have done were it not for the WPA.","The digitization of this collection was funded by a gift from EBSCO Industries."],"dc_format":["audio/mpeg","image/jpeg"],"dcterms_identifier":null,"dcterms_language":["eng"],"dcterms_publisher":null,"dc_relation":["The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections"],"dc_right":["http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/"],"dcterms_is_part_of":["Working Lives Oral History Project"],"dcterms_subject":["Burns, Cleatus--Interviews","Burns, Louise--Interviews","Work environment--Alabama","Coal miners--Alabama","Labor unions--Alabama","Mining camps--Mississippi","Canning and perserving","Quilting","United States--Civilization--1970-"],"dcterms_title":["Interview with Cleatus and Louise Burns"],"dcterms_type":["Sound","Text"],"dcterms_provenance":["William Stanley Hoole Special Collections Library"],"edm_is_shown_by":null,"edm_is_shown_at":["http://digitalcollections.libraries.ua.edu/cdm/ref/collection/u0008_0000003/id/210"],"dcterms_temporal":null,"dcterms_rights_holder":null,"dcterms_bibliographic_citation":null,"dlg_local_right":["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."],"dcterms_medium":["interviews","transcripts"],"dcterms_extent":null,"dlg_subject_personal":null,"dcterms_subject_fast":null,"fulltext":null},{"id":"alm_u0008-0000003_134","title":"Interview with W.J. Ridgeway","collection_id":"alm_u0008-0000003","collection_title":"Working Lives Oral History Project","dcterms_contributor":["Ridgeway, W. J.","Kuhn, Cliff"],"dcterms_spatial":["United States, Alabama, Jefferson County, Birmingham, 33.52066, -86.80249"],"dcterms_creator":null,"dc_date":["1984-06-10"],"dcterms_description":["In this interview, W. J. Ridgeway talks about his work in the coal mines. 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