On a burning deck
Subtitle: an oral history of the great migration
By: Tom Jones
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781544025377
Subjects: Working class families; Interviews; Rural-urban migration; Elementary school teachers; Rubber industry workers; History
Description: Presents edited oral histories to trace the migration of the family of Haskell and Florence Jones from rural Kentucky to Akron, Ohio in 1917, to work in the rubber factories. Follows them on a move back to Kentucky during the Depression and then a return to the Akron area.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: vol. 1.; title: The road to Akron, 1900-1920 --