Voices from Alabama
Subtitle: a twentieth-century mosaic
By: J. Mack Lofton, Jr. ; photographs selected by Michael Thomason.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Tuscaloosa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 348
Subjects: Interviews -- Alabama.; Alabama -- Social life and customs.; Alabama -- Biography.
Description: 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.