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Growing Up In Mobile: Depression & Wartime, 1929-1949
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Mobile during the Depression and World War II
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Judy Walton, MPL Youth Services,
Erin Kellen, MPL Youth Services,
& George Schroeter, MPL Local History & Genealogy
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Mobile Public Library
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1983
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USA Photographic Archives,
Spring Hill College,
Mobile Historic Development Commission
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English
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Descriptions of Oral History Interview Tapes
Dorothy Bivens
-father's business - black - owned coal yard
-children's games and pet pig Timmy, city ordinance forbidding in city livestock
-her girlfriends
-neighborhood and Mobile descriptions
-overcrowding in Mobile - soldiers everywhere
-deterioration of race relations as a result of war build-up
-segregation
George Taylow
-childhood on the Eastern Shore-Montrose
-first car family owned
-lived in Mobile after marriage
-in Merchant Marine before and during war, torpedo-ed 3 times
-lived in New York, different perspective on Mobile for a black man at this time
-black apprenticeship and place in shipping, going to sea as a very young boy, father was a sailor
Mrs. LeFlore
-living in a little, mostly white neighborhood on the (then) outskirts of town. Whites and blacks were friendly with one another
-segregation
-Civil Rights
-Mardi Gras (Joe Cain)
Col. Lockett
-white middle-class neighborhood description
-neighbors knew each other because people walked instead of driving
-streetcars
-talks extensively of his wartime and Army career, service in the Pacific during World War II
-short interview - 30 minutes - one side only
Frank Fields (no photo)
-description of pre-World War I black neighborhoods
-hard work for blacks, low pay
-mail carrier, highest pay available to blacks
-worked at Scottish Rite Temple
-segregation - Civil Rights
-member of the Knights of Pythias, a black fraternal organization
-joined Army towards the end of World War I, does not see action
-organized picnics in Africatown, every week, remembers seeing Cudjo Lewis
GROWING UP IN MOBILE; DEPRESSION AND WARTIME. 1929-1939
Oral History Interviews
Summer, 1983
Walter Lee Allen
Date of birth: July 1, 1922
Date of Interview: June 22, 1983
Interviewer: Reve Carlson
Assistants: Tom Oberding
Frank McCloskey
Joaquin M. Holloway, Sr.
Date of Birth: January 27, 1908
Date of Interview: June 27, 1983
Interviewer: Lalie Felis
Assistants: De Juan Kidd
Patricia Harrison
Dorothy Steele Bivens
Date of Birth: November 23, 1925
Date of Interview: June 20, 1983
Interviewer: De Juan Kidd
Assistant: Joey Brackner
Robert Hunter
Date of Birth: 1920
Date of Interview: June 25, 1983
Interviewer: Frank McCloskey
Assistant: None
(Two tapes)
Elizabeth Vickers Courtney
Date of Birth: February 2, 1930
Date of Interview: July 1, 1983
Interviewer: Lalie Felis
Assistants: Sherrie Chavis
Rebecca Harrison
Archbishop Oscar Lipscomb
Date of birth:
Date of Interview: July 14, 1983
Interviewer: Frank McCloskey
Assistant: None
Susan Randolph Crichton
Date of Birth: October 8, 1896
Date of Interview: June 23, 1983
Interviewer: Reve Carlson
Assistant: Frank McCloskey
Col. Herbert S. Lockett
Date of Birth:
Date of Interview: June 24, 1983
Interviewer: De Juan Kidd
Assistant: Joey Brackner
Frank Fields
Date of Birth: August 26, 1900
Date of Interview: June 30, 1983
Interviewer: Joey Brackner
Assistant: None
(Two tapes)
Edith Eliza Thompson McClain
Date of Birth: January 6, 1904
Date of Interview: June 24, 1983
Interviewer: Frank McCloskey
Assistant: None
(Two tapes)
Ann Battle Hawkins
(Mrs. Donald A. Hawkins)
Date of Birth: August 27, 1912
Date of Interview: June 21, 1983
Interviewer: Lalie Felis
Assistant: Sherry Chavis
(Two tapes)
Elizabeth Barbour Pipes
(Mrs. R. Ford Pipes)
Date of Birth: January 30, 1918
Date of Interview: June 20, 1983
Interviewer: Lalie Felis
Assistant: Sherry Chavis
Mary Frances Young Plummer
Date of Birth: October, 1913
Date of Interview: June 21, 1983
Interviewer: Reve Carlson
Assistants: Tom Oberding
Frank McCloskey
Delores Jenkins Taylor
(Mrs. George O. Taylor)
Date of Birth:
Date of Interview: June 22, 1983
Interviewer: Jeffrey Hunter
Assistant: Sherry Chavis
George O. Taylor
Date of Birth: July 23, 1915
Date of Interview: June 22, 1983
Interviewer: De Juan Kidd
Assistant: Joey Brackner
Arch R. Winter
Date of Birth: September 13, 1913
Date of Interview: June 23, 1983
Interviewer: Lalie Felis
Assistant: Sherry Chavis
Patricia G. Harrison
Coordinator - Oral History Project
Notes:
The general theme of the oral history interviews was "Growing Up in Mobile: Depression and Wartime, 1929-1949." Many of the questions pertained to the Depression or to World War II. However, many of the persons interviewed were young adults during the Depression or World War II. Some of these interviews, therefore, are valuable in illustrating what it was like to grow up in Mobile during an earlier period.
The young people prepared a standard interview. They adapted this interview to fit the individual.
Two of the interviews - those of Elizabeth Vickers Courtney and Robert Hunter - pertain to growing up in Spring Hill . Robert Hunter also includes some information regarding Spring Hill College. He also discusses historic preservation in Mobile.
The interview with Mrs. Edith McClain contains information relating to black Episcopalians in the South. She also discusses black leadership in Mobile. She was the first black librarian with a degree in Mobile.
Mrs. Dorothy Bivens was interviewed in her office at Bishop State Junior College. A central air conditioner ran during the interview. The tape is audible. However, this tape is not as clear in portions as are most of the other tapes.
Walter Allen did not grow up in Mobile., He states that he grew up "out in the country". He was drafted into the army in 1942. Tom Oberding, the assistant, began interviewing Mr. Allen when the interview was underway. The Young Interviewees were not always able to change their prepared interviews when the subject did not fit the pattern. This is apparent in parts of this interview.
Most of the remaining interviews pertain to Mobile during the Depression or World War II. Many of the interviews are excellent and are historically valuable.
Mrs. Teach Beck LeFlore (Mrs. John L. LeFlore, Sr.) was interviewed during this project. Unfortunately the recorder malfunctioned or some other problem prevented this tape from being audible. Joey Brackner who assisted with the interview has included some notes relating to this interview.
The interviews were conducted during the summer of 1983.
Project Coordinator: Patricia G. Harrison
Research Assistants: Joey Brackner
Sherry Chavis
Frank McCloskey
Young people working on oral history project:
Reve Carlson, age 11, Leinkauf School
Lalie Felis, age 14, Daphne Jr. High School
Jeffrey Hunter, age 14, Palmer Pillans Middle School
De Juan Kidd, age 12, St. Mary's Middle School
Tommy Oberding, age 10, Aquinas Academy
Dublin Core
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Title
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Descriptions of Oral History Interview Tapes
Subject
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Oral history interviews
Description
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Summaries and notes for the oral history interviews
Creator
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Patricia G. Harrison
Source
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Growing Up in Mobile: Depression & Wartime Project
Publisher
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Mobile Public Library
Date
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1983
Format
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pdf
Language
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English
Identifier
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Growing-up-in-Mobile-Descriptions of Oral Histories-1983
Ann Battle Hawkins
Arch Winter
De Juan Kidd
Delores Jenkins Taylor
Dorothy Steele Bivens
Edith Eliza Thompson McClain
Elizabeth Barbour Pipes
Elizabeth Vickers Courtney
Frank Fields
George Taylor
Great Depression
Herbert Lockett
Jeffrey Hunter
Joaquin Holloway Sr.
Lalie Felis
Mary Francis Plummer
Mobile
oral history
Oscar Lipscomb
Patricia Harrison
Reve Carlson
Susan Randolph Crichton
Teah LeFlore
Tommy Oberding
Walter Lee Allen
World War II