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OH233 Stanford Barnes Oral History
Get PDFBarnes discusses the influential high school club, Vocational Industrial Clubs of America (VICA), which he was active in as a teacher in Kentucky. He faced discrimination as an African American advisor for the club that eventually led him to resign from the position. He was concerned that his students would have limited opportunities due to the VICA supervisor\u27s prejudice against him
OH268 Corine Ray Oral History
Get PDFCorine Ray began the interview by naming the schools that she attended in her hometown of Paducah, Kentucky in the early 1900s. She chronicled her teaching career in Tennessee and western Kentucky, detailed her experiences at Paducah\u27s Garfield School and at the one-room Sanders School in Arcadia, Kentucky. She cited the legislation that required women to give up teaching once they married, which was why she stopped teaching in 1927. Ray recounted how she began giving music lessons at her home after she resigned as a public school teacher. She mentioned a lynching of an African American male in Paducah in 1919. She spoke of the band at Lincoln School and her classmates who became professional musicians. She described living, learning, and working at Wilberforce University in Ohio. She recalled the financial hardships in the Jackson Purchase during the Great Depression, particularly the difficulty in finding jobs and making enough money to provide for the family. She described the musicality of her children and her son\u27s band, Clouds of Joy. She ends the interview with a quote from her high school salutatorian speech
OH245 Ceola Danner Oral History
Get PDFCeola Danner discusses her experiences at attending segregated schools, Lincoln Elementary and High School, in Paducah, Kentucky during the 1920s and 1930s. She divulges her family’s financial struggle during the Great Depression and how it prevented her from graduating from West Kentucky Industrial College in Paducah. She also details her family’s stint as refugees during the Flood of 1937. Danner describes race relations between white and African American communities in Paducah during the 1920s and 1930s and how integration improved social conditions for blacks. Lastly, she tells of her father, Ollie Rogers, and his experience in an all-black cavalry regiment in the United States Army during the Spanish-American War and his efforts to organize a drum and bugle corps in Paducah during the Second World War
OH243 Betty Ann Crisp Oral History
Get PDFBetty Ann Crisp describes the physical conditions of the Kane School, an African American elementary school in Clinton, Hickman County, Kentucky, in the late 1930s and 1940s. She details both the academic and recreational aspects of her elementary education, including the games that the girls played during recess, her teachers, the annual graduation ceremony and punishments received by mischievous students. She recalls how the town of Clinton did not have a high school for African Americans, so she and others from Clinton had to travel a complicated busing route to attend the segregated high school at Hickman, Kentucky. She mentioned school consolidation in Hickman County as a parent and describes the experiences of her son when he transferred to the desegregated Central School of Hickman County in the sixth grade
OH080 Rube Davis Oral History
Get PDFRube Davis discusses the activities of the Night Riders in Marshall and Calloway counties in Kentucky during the first decade of the 20th Century. He recalls an incident when he was shot at by a Night Rider. Davis also discusses methods used by Night Riders to prevent the sale of tobacco to the American Tobacco Company
OH219 Richard E. Sears Oral History
Get PDFRichard E. Sears describes his experiences as a draftsman and electrical engineer working with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) on the Kentucky Dam. He recalls the region prior to the construction of the dam, including the lack of industry, rural road system and ferries crossing the river. He recollects participating in the National Youth Administration at Paducah before being hired by the TVA. He discusses the hiring process, salaries, his duties and responsibilities, labor union relations with management, public safety operations, living conditions at the Kentucky Dam Village, racial relations (no mixed race work crews in his department), work related accidents and construction problems
OH213 Robert Morrow Oral History
Get PDFRobert Morrow describes working as an office secretary, plumbers apprentice and pipe fitter during the construction of the Kentucky Dam from 1938 to 1941. He recalled being part of the plumbers union and being paid one dollar an hour. He mentioned union activities, race relations during construction of the dam, segregated villages, safety procedures, accidents, deaths and fights among employees. Just prior to the Second World War he worked at Camp Livingston, Louisiana, where the Black Horse Squadron had been stationed, as a plumber in preparation for the war. He was drafted into the United States Army in July of 1941 but remained stateside during the entire war. He also reflects upon living in Lone Oak during the 1920s, working for the Federal Housing Project at Paducah, painting the Illinois Central Railroad Bridge across the Ohio River and the impact of the dam on the surrounding communities Alben Barkley had worked for his grandfather as a farm laborer
OH199 Joe Fields Oral History
Get PDFJoe Fields of Marshall County, Kentucky discusses his experience with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) on the construction of the Kentucky Dam. He recounts the day he was hired and his assigned duties as a mail-carrier on the worksite. He recalls employee horseplay, safety concerns, alcohol consumption on the worksite, thievery, social interactions, labor unions, and racial relations
OH194 Frank Depriest Oral History
Get PDFFrank Depriest discusses his experiences while working with the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) during the construction of Kentucky Dam and the relocation of homesteads in the early 1940s. He recalls the region prior to the construction of the dam and the impact of the TVA on the residents living in the Tennessee Valley. He describes his duties as a construction laborer and the various work related projects associated with the dam. Issues such as racial relations, job safety and interaction with co-workers are mentioned throughout the interview
OH195 William Bill Derington Oral History
Get PDFWilliam “Bill” Derington of Marshall County, Kentucky discusses his experiences as a laborer during the construction of Kentucky Dam and working in Detroit, Michigan during the Second World War. He describes working conditions and the impact of labor unions in both Kentucky and Michigan. He recalled the many changes brought to Marshall County, Kentucky when the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) began construction of the dam and after its completion. He recounts safety issues, race relations, hiring practices, alcohol consumption in the camps and work related injuries