Title: Voices from Alabama : a twentieth-century mosaic /
Authors: Lofton, J. Mack, 1928-
Publisher: University of Alabama Press,
Year: 1993
Subjects: Interviews Alabama.; Alabama Social life and customs.; Alabama Biography.
Abstract: Entertaining oral history of mostly rural Alabama from the turn of the century onward, drawn from a myriad of professions, races, and religious persuasions. There are sections on the Depression, on working in the coal mines near Birmingham, on truck and oyster farming, on potlucks and revivals and going off to war.
Contents: Jim Carlson. A Mountain Store / Burton Troup. Sacking 'Em Up / Jeff Coleman. An Eye for Business / Ben Meriwether -- Mine Country. Three-Wagon Caravan / Cullman Powell. Every Foot of Land / Charlie Hill. A Ton of Coal / Sue Pickett, Libby Fi.