The Black Belt Oral History Project searchable by keywords
Color Code by occupations: small farming; sharecropping;
tenant farming; landowning; non-agriculture; wood related;
music related; livestock related; coal mining
0001
Born 1930s; female; tenant farming; rural life; Civil Rights; segregation; house
description; Selma to Montgomery March; education; cotton; Coy, Wilcox
County
0002
Born 1920s; male; female; sharecropper; farming; husband and wife; Civil
Rights; segregation; field hand; wage work; rural life; hunting; Coy; Wilcox
County
0003
Born 1910s; male; rural life; farming; educator; education; Alabama A&M;
Civil Rights; ku klux klan encounter; Harry S. Truman; Nation of Islam;
National Democratic Party; Camden, Wilcox
0004
Born 1920s; female; rural life; tenant farming; Civil Rights; Martin Luther King
in Camden, Wilcox County; Coy
0005
Born 1930s; male; rural life; farming, Alabama A&M; Civil Rights; educator;
education; school integration; Anne Manie, Wilcox County
0006
Born 1920s; male; rural life; small farming; north for jobs; politics; politician;
voter fraud; Eutaw, Greene County
0007
Born 1930s; male; rural life; small farming; current farming; discrimination of
land ownership; power company; Tishabee, Greene County
0008
Born 1920s; female; tenant farming; rural life; Civil Rights; Coy, Wilcox
County
0009
Born 1930s; female; rural life; sharecropper; farming; education; Civil Rights;
church meeting with Martin Luther King; segregation of businesses; World War
II; rationing; weather; voter registration; Knoxville, Greene County
0010
Born 1930s; male; landowner; sharecroppers; farming; tenant farming; Civil
Rights; deer hunting; voter intimidation; Boligee, Greene County; Hale County
0011
Born 1940s; male; Fisk University; Nashville, Tennessee; Civil Rights and black
athletes; creating segregated communities; educators and desegregation;
Tuskegee, Macon County
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0012
Born 1960s; male; rural life; small farming, parents involved in Civil Rights;
cattle; The Federation; current farming; Eutaw, Greene County
0013
Born 1930s; male; family owned sawmills in York, AL; segregated
communities; Civil War; maids; attorney; York; Livingston, Sumter County
0014
Born 1920s; male; rural life; sharecropper farming in Marion County; hunting,
segregation, moving to Eutaw, Greene County
0015
Born 1950s; female; rural life; sharecropper farming; segregation; land eviction,
The Federation; Forkland, Greene County
0016
Born 1950s; female; Civil Rights; integration of schools; attorney; Fisk
University; first black Deputy Marshall; education; minority issues
0017
Born 1920s; females; interview of two friends; Kinterbish, beauty parlor; World
War II involvement; sawmill at Bellamy, The Federation during Civil Rights;
registering to vote; cotton picking; farming
0018
Born 1940s; male; Tuskegee University, educator, Civil Rights Movement;
segregation of schools; education in the inner city; Tuskegee, Macon County
0019
Born 1920s; female; rural life; tenant farmer in Mantua, Greene County;
segregation; Greyhound bus; uncle put in prison for disrespecting a white man;
cosmetology; school board; education; Eutaw, Greene County
0020
Born 1930s; female; rural life; landowner; sharecroppers; catfish farming, sheep
farming; Boyd, Sumter County
0021
Born 1930s; female; rural life; educator; black owned business; land ownership
discrimination; segregation in education and work; current racial issues
0022
Born 1930s; male; rural life; sharecropping; farming; Alabama A&M; educator;
school board
0023
Born 1930s; male and female; husband and wife interview; logging community;
town life; sawmill; women's liberation; childhood memories; Land community
and town of Butler in Choctaw County;
0024
Born 1920s; female; rural life; education; life during World War II; Boyd,
Sumter County
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0026
Born 1930s; male; Born 1940s; female; husband and wife inteview; ghosts; Civil
Rights; discrimination; farming; sharecropper farming; education; rural life;
Community of Buck's Chapel; Kinterbish; Cuba; Sumter County
0027
Born 1940s; male; grew up in Meridian, MS and Birmingham; Attorney Arthur
Shores; Fred Shuttlesworth family; Collegeville; Smithfield-"Bomber's Hill;
Civil Rights; Segregation; NAACP; Stokely Carmichael; Tuskegee, Macon
County
0028
Born 1940s; male; rural life; Tuskegee University; Army, Civil Rights;
Victoryland; greyhound racing; small farming; law enforcement; Tuskegee;
Shorter, Macon County
0029
Born 1920s; female; Callaway School; town life; rural life; garment factory;
Scooba; Mississippi; Kemper County; Livingston, Sumter County
0030
Born 1930s; male; rural life; tenant farming; path to landownership; Civil
Rights; power company; Tishabee; Greene County
0031
Born 1930s; male; landowner; sharecropping; farming; house description;
weather; barber; electricity; Emelle; Sumter County; same participant as # 0108
0032
Born 1950s; male; Civil Rights; school desegregation; activist mother; death of
Martin Luther King; education; Montgomery Bus Boycott
0033
Born 1930s; male; Born 1950s; male; interview with two friends; farming;
sharecropping; farming; rural life; foodways; hunting; doctor; home remedies;
electricity; preserving food
0035
Born 1940s; male; town life; Alabama state senate; Civil Rights; voting rights;
integration; ku klux klan encounter; banking; Butler; Choctaw County
0036
Born 1910s; male; The Great Depression; automobiles; education; rural life;
town life; segregation; Thomasville, Clarke County; Marengo County
0037
Born 1920s; male; subsistence farm, immigration from Europe; life during
World War II; electricity; segregation; rural life; Jackson and Rockville, Clarke
County
0038
Born 1940s; male; black owned business; Montgomery Bus Boycott; Civil
Rights; segregation; Martin Luther King's reaction after his home was bombed;
Marching band; integrating the work place
The Black Belt Oral History Project searchable by keywords
0040
Born 1920s; female; rural life; education; courting, farming; ghosts; slingshot;
Belmont; Coatopa; Sumter County
0041
Born 1930s; male; Civil Rights activist; SNCC; snow hill institute; church;
protests; demonstrations; Snow Hill; Wilcox County
0042
Born 1970s; female; segregation in schooling; poverty in black communities due
to inequalities; historical preservation; Orrville; Dallas County; Montgomery
0043
Born 1930s; male; female; husband and wife interview; sawmill; town life; rural
life; busing; dirt roads; WWII in Linden; rationing; Linden, Marengo County
0044
Born 1950s; male; rural life; town life; segregation at restaurants; church;
politics; Civil Rights; voter registration; politician; Livingston, Sumter County
0045
Born 1920s and 1930s;male;female;husband and wife; town life; rural life; small
farming; cattle; hay; World War II in Sumter; heating and cooling homes with
no electricity; party-line telephones; Sumterville; Livingston, Sumter County
0046
Born 1940s; female; making white pine baskets; home remedies from plants;
sharecropping; hunting; family; education; folk artist; Demopolis, Marengo
County
0047
Born 1920s; male; town life; rural life; company camp; sawmill; logging;
German Prisoners of War; WWII in Clarke; storyteller; baseball; life during
great depression; childhood; Fulton, Clarke County
0048
Born 1930s; male; rural life; tenant farmer; education; cooking; church; weather;
logging with horses and two man saw; segregation and work; religion;
Livingston; Coatopa; Sumter County
0049
Born 1940s; male; small farming; education; Civil Rights; rural life; moved up
North; military; law enforcement; weather; food versus food today; Pigford
vs.Glickman; land ownership discrimination; cane syrup; Eutaw, Greene
County
0050
Born 1940s; male; landowner; weather; hospital born; cotton gin; racial
violence; farm machinery; farming; rural life; Bellamy description; Emelle,
Sumter Co.
0051
Born 1910s; male; World War II; veteran; Tuskegee Airman; 99th Squadron;
segregation; discrimination; Amory, Mississippi; Tuskegee, Macon County
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0052
Born 1930s; male; rural life; education; segregation; weather; pulp and paper
industry; engineering; Butler, Choctaw County
0053
Born 1940s; male; sharecropper; rural life; education; church; ghosts; moved up
North; home remedies; farming; cotton; ice truck; mules; living by Tombigbee
River; flooding; going to town; house description; hunting; Coatopa, Sumter
County
0056
Born 1950s; female; rural life; politics; moved up North; politician; school
boycott; Civil Rights; Forkland, Greene County
0057
Born 1930s; female; discrimination; church; brick masonry; Alabama A&M;
education; educator; Faunsdale; Uniontown; Marengo County; Perry County;
Coatopa, Sumter County
0058
Born 1910s; male; World War II; veteran; Tuskegee Airman; 99th Squadron;
segregation; discrimination; Amory, Mississippi; Tuskegee, Macon County
0059
Born 1920s; friend interview; male; male; childhood; the Great Depression;
banking during the Depression; serving in WWII; pilot; airplane mechanic;
honeybees; town life; education; Gilbertown; Choctaw County
0060
Born 1930s; female; mechanization of farming; life in Prattville; story told that
happened during Civil War; hearing about Pearl Harbor; school integration;
rationing; polio; historian; Montgomery Bus Boycott; domestic work; German
POWs; Demopolis; Marengo County; Prattville; Autauga County; Montgomery,
Montgomery County
0061
Born 1930s; rural life; farming; ghost stories; picking cotton; education; voting
rights; segregation; canning; cooking; Chance, Choctaw County; Mobile County
0062
Born 1920s; rural life; sharecropper; farming; friendship with landowner's
daughter; hunting; house description; mules; living without electricity; Boyd,
Sumter County.
0064
Born 1940s; male; rural life; farming; cotton; cooking; worked up North;
community; restaurant; current life; Boligee; Greene County
0066
Born 1930s; female; male; husband and wife interview; small farming; rural life;
factory work; protests; Martin Luther King; childhood; education; Civil Rights;
voting rights; Sedan; Camden; Wilcox County
The Black Belt Oral History Project searchable by keywords
0067
Born 1920s; male; sawmill; lumber; company camp; military service; World
War II experience; trains; Fulton; Clarke County
0068
Born 1930s; male; farming; rural life; education; ghost stories; moved up North;
illness; Saint Matthew; Greene County; Montgomery; Montgomery County
0069
Born 1910s; male; Coatopa; Sumter County; Greensboro; Hale County
0070
Born 1930s; life during WWII; Pearl Harbor; landowner; country store; rural
life; Civil Rights; school integration; Yantley; Choctaw County; Butler; same
interview participant as 0237
0071
Born 1940s; female; rural life; politician; town life; segregation; Faunsdale;
Marengo County
0072
Born 1930s; male; newspaper; reporter; town life; military service; Korean War;
hunting; interviewing famous celebrities; education; Gilbertown; Land; Choctaw
County; Los Angeles; California
0073
Born 1940s; male; town life; family history; movie theatre; military service;
local business; segregation; racial violence; local economy; black belt economy;
Geiger; Livingston; Sumter County
0074
Born 1930s; female; education; town life; life during WWII; segregation; race
relations; childhood; house description; Chatom; St. Stephens; college;
University of Montevallo; University of Alabama; Washington County; Chance;
Clarke County
0075
Born 1950s; male; politics; politician; coal ash dump; weather; county politics;
black belt economy; local economy; current life; prisons; Wal-Mart; Marion;
Perry County
0076
Born 1940s;female; farming; sawmills; river; Tombigbee; flooding; college life;
Alabama A&M; education; hunting; family history; community; fishing; Paces
Landing; Bethel community; Swamp; Coatopa; Sumter County
0077
Born 1920s; male; auto mechanic; race relations; airport work; Marion; Perry
County; Tuskegee; Macon County
0078
Born 1930; male; rural life; small farming; community; college; NAACP; voting
rights; Civil Rights; cattle; changes in farming; house description; Vanity Fair;
Forkland; Greene County
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0079
Born 1910s; female; town life; family history; local history; attorney; education;
church; religion; life during WWII; Vanity Fair; domestic workers; hearing of
Pearl Harbor; Finchburg; Monroeville; Monroe County
0080
Born 1930s; male; educator; alabama history; professor; school integration;
advent of computers; edmundite missions; Tuscaloosa; Selma; Dallas County
0081
Born 1920s; male; school integration; military service; community organizer;
black belt economy; discrimination; Aliceville; Sipsey River; Pickens County
0082
Born 1930s; female; town life; childhood; education; civil rights; marching
band; cooking; Eutaw; Greene County
0083
Born 1920s; male; football; military service; attorney; Civil Rights; education;
segregation; Montgomery; Montgomery County
0084
Born 1930s; female; town life; local government; childhood; convict camp;
water; education; church; Thomaston, Marengo County.
0086
Born 1920s; male; landowner; farming; rural life; tenant farming; cattle;
childhood; milk; life during WWII; Thomaston; Marengo County
0087
Born 1930s; female; town life; education; black belt economy; school
segregation; childhood; Uniontown; Perry County; Montgomery; Montgomery
County
0088
Born 1930s;female; carnival; roadshow; tornado; education; retail work; girl
scouts; Montgomery, Montgomery County
0089
Born 1920s; male; Born 1930s; female; husband and wife interview; military
service; World War II; church; education; The Great Depression; current
educational issues; paper mill; rural life; farming; Hale County; Linden;
Marengo County; Perry County
0090
Born 1930s; female; female; male; interview of cousins; Montgomery; city life;
childhood; race relations; Gullah; golf course; family life; politics; military
service; social injustice; family history; Greensboro; Hale County;
Montgomery; Montgomery County;
0091
Born 1930s; male; rural life; farming; movie theater; railroads; black belt
economy; current life; current education; school integration; local economy;
Dayton; Linden; Marengo County
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0093
Born 1910s; female; birthed by doctor at home; childhood; rural life; town life;
education; race relations; Demopolis; Marengo County
0094
Born 1920s; male; rural life; city life; community service; childhood;
segregation; military service; Korean war; living without electricity; Selma;
Dallas County
0095
Born 1920s; male; childhood; town life; trains; college; World War II
experience; family history; military service; Thomaston; Marengo County
0096
Born 1910s; female; city life; Jewish faith; childhood; education; great
depression; civil rights; Craig field; Selma; Dallas County
0097
Born 1930s; male; military service; sports; edmundite; boys club; city life;
WWII service; community service; Selma; Dallas County
0098
Born 1940s; female; lawyer; politics; civil rights; current life; judge; u.s
magistrate; childhood; education; college; Howard University; Columbia
University; church; YMCA; black belt economy
0099
Born 1940s;male; childhood; minister; church; college; military service; Emelle;
Sumter County; Montgomery; Montgomery County
0100
Born 1920s; male; town life; education; military service; World War II
experience; college; social events; Eutaw; Greene County
0101
Born 1930s; male; rural life; farming; college; Auburn University; military
service; entrepreneur; Pintlala; Montgomery; Montgomery County
0102
Born 1930s; male; movie theaters; jeweler; city life; military service; radio
station; segregation; Selma; Dallas County
0103
Born 1940s; male; town life; childhood; college; education; Selma to
Montgomery March; military service; National Guard; football; segregation;
freedom riders; race relations; Linden; Demopolis; Marengo County;
Livingston; Sumter County
0104
Born 1920s; male; childhood; city life; agriculture; plantation work; college;
Auburn University; stockyards; banking; Jazz; Selma; Dallas County
0105
Born 1920s; male; rural life; education; sharecropping; educating of farming
children; college; Alabama A&M; Civil Rights; school integration; football;
mechanization in farming; Greene County; Pickens County
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0106
Born 1930s; male; turpentine collecting; family business in turpentine;
turpentine uses; pine trees and turpentine; family history; Deer Park;
Washington County
0107
Born 1950s; male; songwriter; musician; musical inspiration; guitars; creation of
Sucarnochee Revue; radio; management of the Sucarnochee Revue; Mississippi;
Livingston; Sumter County
0108
Born 1930s; male; hand-makes instruments, guitars; musician; Sucarnochee
Revue; childhood and music; dance band; Emelle; Sumter County; same
participant as # 0031
0109
male; military service; carnivals; fortune tellers; circus; artist; art business;
Marion; Perry County
0110
Born 1950s; male; music career; musician; Black Belt music; Sucarnochee
Revue; songwriting; performing; Meridian; Mississippi; Livingston; Sumter
County
0111
Born 1940s; female; town life; childhood; race relations; Jimmie Lee Jackson;
career; family history; Civil Rights; work at Judson College; Marion; Perry
County
0112
Born 1920s; female; Civil Rights; town life; Coretta Scott King; Martin Luther
King; demonstrations; The Selma to Montgomery March; race issues;
Greensboro; Hale County; same participant as int 0207
0113
Born 1920s; male; rural life; city life; farming; boll weevil; soil comparison in
relation to boll weevils; Montgomery; Montgomery County
0114
Born 1940s; male; local history; church; local economy; Pintlala; Montgomery
County
0115
Born 1930s; male; city life; education; musician; blue grass; music
career; Birmingham; Jefferson County; Montgomery; Montgomery County
0116
Born 1940s; female; civil rights; Tuskegee Institute; TILE; Montgomery Bus
Boycott ; the Selma to Montgomery March; Martin Luther King; voting rights;
Montgomery; Montgomery County; same as participant in int 0161
0117
Born 1940s; female; city life; Civil Rights; Montgomery Bus Boycott;
community; poverty; class division; current education issues; lack of education
and more prisons; Rosa Parks; Montgomery; Montgomery County
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0118
Born 1920s; female; city life; childhood; life during WWII; life during the
depression; household workers; movie theatre; Montgomery; Montgomery
County
0119
Born 1940s; male; city life; family business; Civil Rights; NAACP; childhood;
education; race and newspapers; black history; college; Alabama State
University; historian; Montgomery; Montgomery County
0120
Born 1920s; male; Alabama Power; Auburn University; college; black belt
artist; art; hay bales; method of creating art; current life; Demopolis; Marengo
County; Forkland; Greene County
0121
Born 1930s; female; rural life; farming; education; childhood; actress; black belt
plays; race relations; Union Springs; Bullock County
0123
Born 1920s; male; photographer; photography of Civil Rights era; ku klux klan
encounter; Rosa Parks; photographing Martin L. King; photographing Governor
Wallace; Montgomery; Montgomery County
0124
Born 1920s; male; education; childhood; Greenville; Butler County
0125
Born 1940s; male; childhood; town life; black belt economy; local economy;
law practice; education issues; local business; Eutaw; Greene County
0126
Born 1920s; male; town life; rural life; syrup mill; education; living without
electricity; farming; tenant farming; mules; Vivian Jones; University of
Alabama; city council; banking; Eutaw; Alabama
0128
Born 1920s; female; rural life; childhood; farming; life during WWII; education;
tobacco; preserving food; Moundville; Hale County; Brent; Bibb County
0129
Born 1960s; male; chef; foodways; southern cooking; art of cooking; cooking as
a career; subjectivity of cooking; cultural heritage of food; oral history; history
and life of food; Marion; Perry County
0131
Born 1940s; male; newspaper; reporter; military service; Birmingham; Civil
Rights Movement; marine corps; Jewish; trial of Viola Liuzzo; Bessemer; ku
klux klan encounter; Selma; Dallas
0132
Born 1920s; female; childhood; town life; local businesses; rural life; church;
movie theatre; education; life during WWII; Birmingham; Eutaw; Greene
County
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0133
Born 1920s; male; Pastor; SNCC; voting right; Alabama State University; Civil
Rights ;voting rights; The Selma to Montgomery March; Selma; Dallas county
0134
Born 1920s; female; small farm; farming; education; rural life; college; moved
up North; military service; educator; Coatopa; Livingston; Sumter County
0134
Born 1920s; male; landowner; farming; politics; politician; law enforcement;
town life; rural life; cattle; rodeos; ku klux klan; Selma march and state troopers;
discrimination; march in Eutaw, Greene County; Boligee, Greene County
0136
Born 1930s; female; male; husband and wife interview; genealogical history;
tree farming; medical technology; medical ethics; hunting; college life; military
service; paratrooper; Monroeville, Monroe County; Peterman; Beatrice; Illinois;
Missouri;
0137
Born 1950s; male; artist; poster prints; current life; observations of York, Sumter
County and Gordo, Pickens County; corporations
0138
Born 1960s;female; farming; Alabama State: Army; UPS; moved up North;
Emelle; Gainesville, Sumter County
0139
Born 1930s; current education; city life; education; librarian work; writer; local
history; church; rural life; Civil Rights; Paper Mill; Meridian, Mississippi;
Butler, Naheola, Choctaw County
0140
Born 1940s; female; town society; town life; education; current healthcare; food;
life history; private academies; public school; current life; Greensboro, Hale
County
0141
Born 1960s;county politics; current town life; toxic coal ash dump; human rights
issues; nightclub; Uniontown, Perry County
0142
Born 1950s; military service; sharecropping; farming; rural life; voting issues;
politics; politician; postal service; Greensboro; Sawyerville; Hale County
0144
Born 1940s; female; national politics; state politics; local politics; current human
rights issues; current community organizing; environmental issues; writer; The
Okra Festival
0145
Born 1930s; male; banking; rural life; sharecropper; farming; Sacred Harp;
Christian Harmony; education; Eoline; Brent, Bibb County
0146
Born 1940s; male; dairy farming; milk economics; cattle; current tagging cattle;
current corn prices; genetics and cattle; Marion Junction, Dallas County
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0147
Born 1940s; female; migrant workers; educator; Florida; library work; current
life; college; current town life; public schools; private academies; Greensboro,
Hale County
0148
Born 1930s;male; female; interview with husband and wife; goat farming; small
farm; rural life; middle-eastern customs; The Federation; Louisiana; Boyd,
Sumter County; birth at home with midwife; honey; sheep; education
0149
Born 1930s; male; tenant farmer; rural life; farming; land eviction; the
Federation; voter registration; landowner; Civil Rights; Panola; Gainesville;
Sumter County
0150
Born 1940s; female; educator; college life; husband in military service; public
schools; cattle; Greensboro; Hale County
0151
Born1940s;female;sharecropper;farming;carpentry; food; church; music; home
remedies; born at home with midwife; illness; landowner; land eviction;
education; sports; courting; moved up North; Epes; Panola; Gainesville; Sumter
County
0152
Born 1930s; male; farming; rural life; tornado; cattle; cooking; forestry; lumber;
prisons; anecdotes; Brent; Bibb County
0153
Born 1930s; male; farming; rural life; education; University of Alabama;
college; cattle; pine tree farming; sharecroppers; landowner; Civil War;
Reconstruction; Julia Tutwiler; early women's education; genealogical history;
Havana Junction; Hale County
0154
Born 1950s; female; blues musician; music; church; juke joints; musician;
Carrolton; Aliceville; Pickens County; Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa Count
0155
Born 1940s;female; rural life; music; Scared Harp; Christian Harmony; church;
Primitive Baptist; tornado; Vietnam War; Brent; Bibb County
0156
Born 1930s; Born 1970s; mother and daughter interview; female; sharecropper;
farming; rural life; toxic coal ash dump; pollution; environmental issues;
Uniontown; Perry County
0157
Born 1970s; female; current education issues; public schools; current town life;
current life; Uniontown, Perry County
0158
Born 1940s; female; town society; NASA; computers; technology; town life;
childhood; Eutaw; Greene County; Greensboro; Hale County
The Black Belt Oral History Project searchable by keywords
0159
Born 1940s; female; Latino human rights issues; town life; protesting; gender
issues; library work; Evergreen; Conecuh County
0160
Born 1940s; male; rural life; cattle; politician; politics; cattle stockyards; cattle
prices; current corn price issue; race issues; Letohatchee; Lowndes County
0161
Born 1940s; Civil Rights; Malcolm X;SNCC; race and illness; tuberculosis;
class issues; race issues; Montgomery; Montgomery Co.; same participant as
0116
0162
Born 1940s; male; small farming; rural life; community; education;
educator; Civil Rights; Selma to Montgomery March; 1970s; 1980s; voter
registration; Lowndesboro; Lowndes County
0163
Born 1940s; sister interview; female; female; town life; landowner;
sharecroppers; public schools; coal ash dump; current voting issues; Latin
America; historical home; environmental issues; politics; Uniontown; Perry
County
0164
Born 1930s; male; bar-tending; clubs; music; Meridian; pool hustling;
dominoes; gambling; York; Sumter County
0165
Born 1960s; female; rural life; farming; current education; coal ash dump;
health-care; current town life; politics; community organizing; segregation; race
issues; Uniontown; Perry County
0166
Born 1950s; female; local business owner; Vanity Fair; Monroeville; Monroe
County
0167
Born 1940s; male; wildlife; prison work; bridges; mountain lions; turkeys; black
panthers; segregation; Evergreen; Conecuh Count
0168
Born 1920s; male; rural life; bird dog; bird dog trainer; quail hunting; education;
hand-carved clocks; Marion Junction; Dallas County
0169
Born 1920s; male; town life; World War II; occupation of Europe; race issues;
segregation; writer; local historian; concentration camps; Holocaust; Vanity
Fair; Korean War; Monroeville; Monroe Count
0170
Born 1930s; male; farming; living without electricity; church; life after WWII;
wages; Panola; Gainesville; Sumter County
The Black Belt Oral History Project searchable by keywords
0171
Born 1930s; male; education; town life; black business; military service; Army;
moved up North; sports; race issues; 1906s; Civil Rights; voter registration;
SCLC; voting issues; politics; Columbia University; Greensboro; Hale County
0172
Born 1950s; male; race issues; genealogical history; Creek; Native Americans;
school integration; rock and roll; music; George Wallace; log cabins;
Wetumpka; Moundville; Hale County
0173
Born 1930s; male; Vanity Fair; manufacturing; corporations; NAFTA; garment
plants; labor issues; Monroeville; Monroe County; Demopolis; Marengo County
0174
Born 1950s; female; small farming; rural life; education; canning; born at home
by midwife; wagons; ferry; community; courting; college; Jackson State;
Coatopa; Sumter County; Demopolis; Marengo County
0175
Born 1950s; male; race issues; segregation; SNCC; rural life; school integration;
sheriff; politics; politician; current life; education; mental health; voter
registration; voter fraud; absentee ballot; Selma to Montgomery March; church
meetings; tent city; armed defense; Pratt City; Jefferson County; Gordonville;
Little Texas; Lowndes County
0176
Born 1950s; cotton gin; Alabama rivers; working on the rivers; engineering;
town life; marching band; soybeans; college; 1970s; Eutaw; Greene County;
Livingston; Sumter County
0177
Born 1960s; male; town life; local economy; Veteran's Affairs; Army;
Greensboro; Hale County
0178
Born 1980s; male; sausage; hogs; local business; family business; Evergreen;
Conecuh County
0179
Born 1910s; female; rural life; education; sharecropper; farming; church;
boarding school; courting; community; Gainesville; Sumter County
0180
Born 1930s; female; winter garden; rural life; church; milk cows; sweet potatoe
banking; chores; moved up North; Hamner; Gainesville; Sumter County
0181
Marachi band; latino life; HB56
0182
Born 1950s; female; town life; landowners; sharecroppers; Civil War
reenactment; family history; genealogical history; race issues; University of
Alabama; DHR; Hospice: politics; Gainesville; Sumter County
The Black Belt Oral History Project searchable by keywords
0183
Born 1930s; female; professional musician; Bluegrass; Gospel; rural life; small
farming; Leroy; Washington County; Louisiana
0184
Born 1920s; female; small farming; rural life; sacred harp; Christian harmony;
company town; church; education; moonshine; home remedies; canning; Bear
Creek Road; Bibb County; Bellamy; Sumter County; same participant as 0288
0185
Born 1950s; female; town life; church; town fire; education; civil war
reenactment; Gainesville; Sumter County
0186
Born 1940s; male; county newspaper; newspaper business; Alabama
Legislature; local park; St. Stephens; Washington County; Jackson; Clarke
County
0187
Born 1940s; male; town life; current life; business owner; college; Livingston;
voter fraud; welfare system; Greensboro; Hale County
0188
Born 1950s; male; Vanity Fair; town life; education; college; insurance business;
turkey hunting; cattle; Monroeville; Monroe County
0189
Born 1930s; female; rural life; sharecropper; farming; sacred harp; christian
harmony; education; church; Eoline; Bibb County
0190
Born 1940s; male; attorney; judicial system; landowner; newspaper business;
politics; hunting; Greensboro; Hale County
0191
Born 1930s; female; sharecropper; farming; rural life; illness; moved up North;
home crafts; quilting; pine weave baskets; Life after World War II; playing;
church; school; Christmas; Eutaw, Greene County
0192
Born 1940s; female; town life; community; hunting; catfish plant; education;
non-profit work; discrimination; hospital work; canning; Greensboro; Hale
County
0193
Born 1950s;female; latino rights; immigration; latino life; current events; HB56;
Catholic Church; human trafficking; Montgomery; Montgomery County
0194
Born 1920s; male; small farming; strawberry farming; rural life; education;
WWII; China; military service; telephones; living without electricity;
moonshine; Evergreen; Castleberrry; Conecuh County
0195
Born 1950s; male; rural life; hunting; dogs; family history; history of land;
Ellards; Perry County
The Black Belt Oral History Project searchable by keywords
0196
Born 1950s; male; blues; blues musician; friendship with Willie King; juke
joints; Carrollton; Pickens County; Northport, Tuscaloosa County
0197
Born 1960s; female; town life; race relations; domestic workers; politics;
education; school integration; childhood; Uniontown; Perry County
0198
Born 1940s; male; Vanity Fair; town life; artisan; pottery; Monroeville; Monroe
County
0199
Born 1950s; female; town life; Vanity Fair; corporations; NAFTA; current town
life; Monroeville; Monroe County
0200
Born 1930s; Born 1950s; female; female; rural life; sharecropping; farming; land
eviction; landowners; education; Gainesville; Sumter County
0202
Born 1950s; town life; church; family history; librarian work; animal shelter;
dogs; Evergreen; Conecuh County
0203
Born 1930s; male; Civil Rights activist; sit-ins; military service; current life;
town life; voter registration; voting rights; Eutaw; Greene County
0204
Born 1920s; female; sharecropper; farming; rural life; town life; Civil Rights;
Greensboro; Hale County
0205
Born 1970s; female; church; current education; public schools; local economy;
Panola; Gainesville; Sumter County
0206
Born 1970s; latino life; immigration; current education; race issues; church;
Montgomery; Montgomery County
0207
Born 1920s; female; Civil Rights; town life; church; education; sports; Coretta
Scott King; Martin Luther King; Greensboro; Hale County; look at 0112
0208
Born 1950s; male; family business; family history; Evergreen; Conecuh County
0210
Born 1940s; female; sharecropping; small farming; rural life; church; home
remedies; midwives; moved up North; artist; segregation; college; Tishabee;
Greene County
0211
Born 1950s; female; school integration; rural life; segregation; education;
politics; Coatopa; Livingston; Sumter County
The Black Belt Oral History Project searchable by keywords
0212
Born 1980; female; attorney; immigration rights; HB56; latinos; hispanics;
community organizing; Alabama Legislature; University of West Alabama;
Livingston; Sumter County; Montgomery; Montgomery County
0213
Born 1920s; male; town life; postal service; city council; rolling
store; education; water shortage; Centreville; Bibb County
0214
Born 1950s; male; politician; politics; sawmill; community; rural life; church;
World War II anecdote; McShan community; Carrolton; Pickens County
0215
Born 1930s; female; sharecropping; farming; truck farming; POW camp; life
during World War II; community organizing; Old Carrollton Courthouse;
Carrollton; Pickens County
0216
Born 1930s; rural life; farming; education; local history; family history;
MOWA: native americans; life without electricity; historian; Chatom; Hobson
community; Washington County
0217
Born 1920s; female; education; educator; rural life; town life; Montgomery;
Montgomery County; Hayneville; Lowndes County
0218
Born 1980s; female; business owner; fashion; clothing; boutique; marketing;
Monroeville; Monroe County
0219
Born 1930s; female; mill village; victory gardens; canning; tap dancing; Jasper;
Walker County; Brent; Bibb County
0220
Born 1930s; male; rural life; small farming; wages; cotton; hogs; Lawley; Brent;
Bibb County; same participant as int 0285
0221
Born 1920s; coal mining; coal mining town; commissary; Cahaba River;
segregation; photography; Dora; Walker County; West Blocton; Bibb County
0222
Born 1920s; female; educator; public schools; education; tenant farming; rural
life; town life; Civil Rights; current education issues; landowner; Lisman;
Choctaw County
0223
Born 1920; female; coal mining town; farming; Brent; Bibb County
0224
Born 1930s; sharecropping; small farming; rural life; church; education; Civil
Rights; Methodist pastor; Martin Luther King; hunting; college; Auburn
University; Bermuda; Conecuh County; Monroeville; Monroe County; same
participant as 0287
The Black Belt Oral History Project searchable by keywords
0225
Born 1930s; female; town life; tornado; Marion; Perry County; Brent; Bibb
County
0226
Born 1930s; female; town life; family; education; current life; church; Reform;
Pickens County
0227
Born 1940s; male; rural life; farming; education; car racing; moonshine;
discrimination; Lowndesboro; Lowndes County
0228
Born 1930s; female; rural life; community; small farming; education; church;
college; quilting; current education; Womack Hill: Choctaw County;
Greensboro; Hale County
0229
Born 1940s; male; cattle; show cattle; stockyards; Monroeville, Monroe County
0230
Born 1940s; male; town life; transportation; tornado; church; politician; politics;
education; Brent; Centreville; Bibb County
0231
Born 1930s; male; professor; newspaper business; tornado; town life;
Centreville; Bibb County; Tuscaloosa; Tuscaloosa County
0232
Born 1930s; female; rural life; farming; marriage; cigar plant; Selma; Marion;
Perry County; Brent; Bibb County; same participant as 0281
0235
Born 1960s; newspaper business; local economy; current life; town life;
transportation; photography; Evergreen; Conecuh County
0236
Born 1930s; female; rural life; coal mining town; subsistence farming; church;
education; Belle Ellen; Bibb County
0237
Born 1930s; female; country store; sharecroppers; life during World War II;
family history; Yantley; Choctaw County; Butler; Choctaw County; same
interview participant as 0070
0238
Born 1950s; male; forestry; school integration; pine trees; pine tree farming;
wildlife; Vietnam War; forest fires; military service; veteran; childhood;
Brewton; Escambia County; Evergreen, Conecuh County
0239
Born 1920s; female; The Great Depression; small farming; rural life; education;
University of Montevallo; educator; Murphy's Crossing; Bibb County;
Livingston, Sumter County
0240
Born 1930s; male; local history; genealogical history; family history; local
economy; church; Grove Hill; Jackson; Clarke County
The Black Belt Oral History Project searchable by keywords
0241
Born 1930s; male rural life; sharecropping; landowner; farming; politician;
politics; hunting; fishing; Pickensville; Pickens County
0242
Born 1910s; male; rural life; roma; sawmills; great depression; cattle rustling;
mules; wagons; Edna; Choctaw County
0243
Born 1920s; male; veteran of World War II; the pacific; Pearl Harbor; small
farming; rural life; education; Bostic; Gordo, Pickens County; Millport; Lamar
County
0244
Born 1950s; male; rural life; small farming; SNCC; Selma to Montgomery
March; Alabama State University in Montgomery; accounting; school
integration; White Hall; Lowndes County
0245
Born 1940s; female; town life; nursing; education; family history; library work;
after-school programs; current life; Union Springs; Bullock County
0246
Born 1940s; hog farming; rural life; farming; landowner; town life; country
music; songwriter; musician; Greenville; Butler County
0247
Born 1930s; male; pharmacy; basketball; town life; Civil Rights; school
integration; segregation; Marion; Perry County
0248
Born 1930s; male; town life; segregation; Civil Rights; family history; family
business; politics; jewish; politician; school integration; Marion, Perry County
0249
Born 1980s; suburbs; Illinois; musician; Sucarnochee revue; University of West
Alabama; Livingston; Sumter County
0250
Born 1940s; rural life; community; small farming; attorney; Civil Rights;
military service ; college; current life; politics; Marion; Perry County
0251
Born 1930s; male; tenant farming; educator; education; changes in education;
current education; race issues; rural life; college; cattle; stockyards; Burkeville;
Lowndes County
0252
Born 1920s; female; sharecropping; rural life; community; church; education;
educator; board of education; Fort Deposit; Lowndes County
0253
Born 1930s; male; small farming; rural life; town life; education; college; Troy
State; art; artist; quilting; living without electricity; segregation; Union Springs;
Bullock County
The Black Belt Oral History Project searchable by keywords
0254
Born 1910s; female; rural life; education; small farming; college; educator;
Marion; Perry County
0255
Born 1930s; male; landowning; sharecropping; cucumbers; farming; rural life;
politics; family history; Ridge; Greenville; Butler County
0256
Born 1920s; female; rural life; town life; education; social life; genealogical
library; Greenville; Butler Library
0257
Born 1910s; male; landowner; sharecropping; rural life; farming; cattle; local
economy; education; military service; World War II; national guard; great
depression; country store; Greenville; Butler County
0258
Born 1910s; male; military service; World War II experience; North Africa;
Italy; rural life; CCC; hunting; bird dogs; golfing; college; ROTC; Butler
County; Prattville; Autauga County
0259
Born 1940s; female; modern farming; family history; cotton market; current life;
Leroy; Washington County
0261
Born 1940s; female; town life; rural life; logistics; ship-building; education;
technology; Butler; Choctaw County
0262
Born 1940s; female; rural life; race issues; quilting; education; church; Civil
Rights; town life; Sunflower County; Mississippi; Union Springs; Bullock
County
0263
Born 1930s; male; rural life; church; education; small farming; Troy State;
college; writer; professor; Hall's Crossyard; Bullock County
0264
Born 1950s; rural life; town life; education; college; Troy State; community;
church; poverty; segregation; Department of Human Resources; St. Clair;
Lowndesboro; Lowndes County; Tuskegee; Macon County
0265
Born 1920s; female; town life; rural life; education; life during World War II;
office work; Vanity Fair; museum work; Bellville; country music; Evergreen;
Conecuh County; Monroeville; Monroe county; Georgiana; Butler County
0266
Born 1920s; female; great depression; Foscue House; rural life; childhood; town
life; Gaineswood; Demopolis; Marengo County; Birmingham; Jefferson County
0267
Born 1930s; male; sharecropping; farming; rural life; segregation;
discrimination; landowners; town life; race relations; Geiger; Sumter County
The Black Belt Oral History Project searchable by keywords
0268
Born 1930s; male; small farming; rural life; town life; barbecue club; church;
hunting dogs; college; Livingston; horse racing; turkey day; railroad; politics;
Livingston; Geiger; Sumter County
0269
Born 1920s; male; rural life; community; education; hunting; race relations;
Gieger; Sumter County
0270
Born 1940s; female; town life; POW camp; library work; church; childhood;
camp Aliceville; University of Alabama; life during Vietnam era; Aliceville;
Pickens County
0271
Born 1930s; female; bartering; saw mills; living without electricity; Camden
Academy; playing; life during World War II; work up North; poverty; town life;
rural life; church; Camden, Wilcox County
0272
Born 1970s; male; local banking; town life; church; Vanity Fair; NAFTA;
economics discussion; Monroeville, Monroe County
0274
Born 1930s; male; town life; agricultural science; cattle; Auburn University;
Pine Apple; Wilcox County
0275
Born 1940s; female; town life; childhood; Department of Human Resources;
education; church; Linden; Marengo County
0276
Born 1930s; female; town life; playing; life during World War II; rationing;
restaurants; church; movie theatres; society; hunting; Camden, Wilcox County
0278
Born 1940s; male; rural life; education; college education ; Knoxville College;
educator; mathematics; changes in education; Camden Academy; educational
method; technology; Boykin; Camden; Wilcox County; Mobile, Mobile County
0280
Born 1930s; male; sawmill; logging; rural life; education; East Perry; Perry
County; Brent; Bibb County
0281
Born 1930s; female; rural life; farming; Selma; Marion; Perry County; Brent;
Bibb County; same participant as 0232
0282
Born 1930s; female; sharecropper; farming; quilting; education; rural life;
country store; rolling store; West Blocton; Centreville; Brent, Bibb County
0283
female; church; country store; educator; education; rural schoolhouse; church;
Brent; Bibb County
The Black Belt Oral History Project searchable by keywords
0284
Born 1930s; male; sharecropping; farming; rural life; community; church;
military service; Randolph; Six Mile; Brent; Bibb County
0285
Born 1930s; male; small farming; rural life; education; community; Bessemer;
Lawley; Brent; Bibb County; same participant as int 0220
0286
Born 1930s-1950s; group interview; male; female; rural life; community;
sharecropping; landowners; Scooba; Mississippi; Panola; Gainesville; Hamner;
Sumter County; Pickens County
0287
Born 1930s; male; sharecropper; small farming; rural life; community; home
remedies; illness; daily routine; hunting; college; Bermuda; Conecuh County;
Monroeville; Monroe County; same participant as 0224
0288
Born 1920s; female; hymns; Barbara Allen; Bellamy; Sumter County; Bear
Creek Road; Bibb County; same participant as 0184
0289
Born 1920s; male; rural life; education; career; barbeque club; Tombigbee
River; trains; business owner; missionary work; family history; Panola; Sumter
County