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1 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 0002 Born 1920s; male; female; sharecropper; farming; husband and wife; Civil Rights; segregation; field hand; wage work; rural life; hunting; Coy; Wilcox 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 ; Coy 0005 Born 1930s; male; rural life; farming, Alabama A&M; Civil Rights; educator; education; school integration; Anne Manie, Wilcox 0006 Born 1920s; male; rural life; small farming; north for jobs; politics; politician; voter fraud; Eutaw, Greene 0007 Born 1930s; male; rural life; small farming; current farming; discrimination of land ownership; power company; Tishabee, Greene 0008 Born 1920s; female; tenant farming; rural life; Civil Rights; Coy, Wilcox 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 0010 Born 1930s; male; landowner; sharecroppers; farming; tenant farming; Civil Rights; deer hunting; voter intimidation; Boligee, Greene ; Hale 0011 Born 1940s; male; Fisk University; Nashville, Tennessee; Civil Rights and black athletes; creating segregated communities; educators and desegregation; Tuskegee, Macon

2 0012 Born 1960s; male; rural life; small farming, parents involved in Civil Rights; cattle; The Federation; current farming; Eutaw, Greene 0013 Born 1930s; male; family owned sawmills in York, AL; segregated communities; Civil War; maids; attorney; York; Livingston, Sumter 0014 Born 1920s; male; rural life; sharecropper farming in Marion ; hunting, segregation, moving to Eutaw, Greene 0015 Born 1950s; female; rural life; sharecropper farming; segregation; land eviction, The Federation; Forkland, Greene 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 0019 Born 1920s; female; rural life; tenant farmer in Mantua, Greene ; segregation; Greyhound bus; uncle put in prison for disrespecting a white man; cosmetology; school board; education; Eutaw, Greene 0020 Born 1930s; female; rural life; landowner; sharecroppers; catfish farming, sheep farming; Boyd, Sumter 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 ; 0024 Born 1920s; female; rural life; education; life during World War II; Boyd, Sumter

3 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 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 0028 Born 1940s; male; rural life; Tuskegee University; Army, Civil Rights; Victoryland; greyhound racing; small farming; law enforcement; Tuskegee; Shorter, Macon 0029 Born 1920s; female; Callaway School; town life; rural life; garment factory; Scooba; Mississippi; Kemper ; Livingston, Sumter 0030 Born 1930s; male; rural life; tenant farming; path to landownership; Civil Rights; power company; Tishabee; Greene 0031 Born 1930s; male; landowner; sharecropping; farming; house description; weather; barber; electricity; Emelle; Sumter ; same participant as # 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 0036 Born 1910s; male; The Great Depression; automobiles; education; rural life; town life; segregation; Thomasville, Clarke ; Marengo 0037 Born 1920s; male; subsistence farm, immigration from Europe; life during World War II; electricity; segregation; rural life; Jackson and Rockville, Clarke 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

4 0040 Born 1920s; female; rural life; education; courting, farming; ghosts; slingshot; Belmont; Coatopa; Sumter 0041 Born 1930s; male; Civil Rights activist; SNCC; snow hill institute; church; protests; demonstrations; Snow Hill; Wilcox 0042 Born 1970s; female; segregation in schooling; poverty in black communities due to inequalities; historical preservation; Orrville; Dallas ; Montgomery 0043 Born 1930s; male; female; husband and wife interview; sawmill; town life; rural life; busing; dirt roads; WWII in Linden; rationing; Linden, Marengo 0044 Born 1950s; male; rural life; town life; segregation at restaurants; church; politics; Civil Rights; voter registration; politician; Livingston, Sumter 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 0046 Born 1940s; female; making white pine baskets; home remedies from plants; sharecropping; hunting; family; education; folk artist; Demopolis, Marengo 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 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 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 0050 Born 1940s; male; landowner; weather; hospital born; cotton gin; racial violence; farm machinery; farming; rural life; Bellamy description; Emelle, Sumter Co Born 1910s; male; World War II; veteran; Tuskegee Airman; 99th Squadron; segregation; discrimination; Amory, Mississippi; Tuskegee, Macon

5 0052 Born 1930s; male; rural life; education; segregation; weather; pulp and paper industry; engineering; Butler, Choctaw 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 0056 Born 1950s; female; rural life; politics; moved up North; politician; school boycott; Civil Rights; Forkland, Greene 0057 Born 1930s; female; discrimination; church; brick masonry; Alabama A&M; education; educator; Faunsdale; Uniontown; Marengo ; Perry ; Coatopa, Sumter 0058 Born 1910s; male; World War II; veteran; Tuskegee Airman; 99th Squadron; segregation; discrimination; Amory, Mississippi; Tuskegee, Macon 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 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 ; Prattville; Autauga ; Montgomery, Montgomery 0061 Born 1930s; rural life; farming; ghost stories; picking cotton; education; voting rights; segregation; canning; cooking; Chance, Choctaw ; Mobile 0062 Born 1920s; rural life; sharecropper; farming; friendship with landowner's daughter; hunting; house description; mules; living without electricity; Boyd, Sumter Born 1940s; male; rural life; farming; cotton; cooking; worked up North; community; restaurant; current life; Boligee; Greene 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

6 0067 Born 1920s; male; sawmill; lumber; company camp; military service; World War II experience; trains; Fulton; Clarke 0068 Born 1930s; male; farming; rural life; education; ghost stories; moved up North; illness; Saint Matthew; Greene ; Montgomery; Montgomery 0069 Born 1910s; male; Coatopa; Sumter ; Greensboro; Hale 0070 Born 1930s; life during WWII; Pearl Harbor; landowner; country store; rural life; Civil Rights; school integration; Yantley; Choctaw ; Butler; same interview participant as Born 1940s; female; rural life; politician; town life; segregation; Faunsdale; Marengo 0072 Born 1930s; male; newspaper; reporter; town life; military service; Korean War; hunting; interviewing famous celebrities; education; Gilbertown; Land; Choctaw ; 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 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 ; Chance; Clarke 0075 Born 1950s; male; politics; politician; coal ash dump; weather; county politics; black belt economy; local economy; current life; prisons; Wal-Mart; Marion; Perry 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 0077 Born 1920s; male; auto mechanic; race relations; airport work; Marion; Perry ; Tuskegee; Macon 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

7 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 0080 Born 1930s; male; educator; alabama history; professor; school integration; advent of computers; edmundite missions; Tuscaloosa; Selma; Dallas 0081 Born 1920s; male; school integration; military service; community organizer; black belt economy; discrimination; Aliceville; Sipsey River; Pickens 0082 Born 1930s; female; town life; childhood; education; civil rights; marching band; cooking; Eutaw; Greene 0083 Born 1920s; male; football; military service; attorney; Civil Rights; education; segregation; Montgomery; Montgomery 0084 Born 1930s; female; town life; local government; childhood; convict camp; water; education; church; Thomaston, Marengo Born 1920s; male; landowner; farming; rural life; tenant farming; cattle; childhood; milk; life during WWII; Thomaston; Marengo 0087 Born 1930s; female; town life; education; black belt economy; school segregation; childhood; Uniontown; Perry ; Montgomery; Montgomery 0088 Born 1930s;female; carnival; roadshow; tornado; education; retail work; girl scouts; Montgomery, Montgomery 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 ; Linden; Marengo ; Perry 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 ; Montgomery; Montgomery ; 0091 Born 1930s; male; rural life; farming; movie theater; railroads; black belt economy; current life; current education; school integration; local economy; Dayton; Linden; Marengo

8 0093 Born 1910s; female; birthed by doctor at home; childhood; rural life; town life; education; race relations; Demopolis; Marengo 0094 Born 1920s; male; rural life; city life; community service; childhood; segregation; military service; Korean war; living without electricity; Selma; Dallas 0095 Born 1920s; male; childhood; town life; trains; college; World War II experience; family history; military service; Thomaston; Marengo 0096 Born 1910s; female; city life; Jewish faith; childhood; education; great depression; civil rights; Craig field; Selma; Dallas 0097 Born 1930s; male; military service; sports; edmundite; boys club; city life; WWII service; community service; Selma; Dallas 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 ; Montgomery; Montgomery 0100 Born 1920s; male; town life; education; military service; World War II experience; college; social events; Eutaw; Greene 0101 Born 1930s; male; rural life; farming; college; Auburn University; military service; entrepreneur; Pintlala; Montgomery; Montgomery 0102 Born 1930s; male; movie theaters; jeweler; city life; military service; radio station; segregation; Selma; Dallas 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 ; Livingston; Sumter 0104 Born 1920s; male; childhood; city life; agriculture; plantation work; college; Auburn University; stockyards; banking; Jazz; Selma; Dallas 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 ; Pickens

9 0106 Born 1930s; male; turpentine collecting; family business in turpentine; turpentine uses; pine trees and turpentine; family history; Deer Park; Washington 0107 Born 1950s; male; songwriter; musician; musical inspiration; guitars; creation of Sucarnochee Revue; radio; management of the Sucarnochee Revue; Mississippi; Livingston; Sumter 0108 Born 1930s; male; hand-makes instruments, guitars; musician; Sucarnochee Revue; childhood and music; dance band; Emelle; Sumter ; same participant as # male; military service; carnivals; fortune tellers; circus; artist; art business; Marion; Perry 0110 Born 1950s; male; music career; musician; Black Belt music; Sucarnochee Revue; songwriting; performing; Meridian; Mississippi; Livingston; Sumter 0111 Born 1940s; female; town life; childhood; race relations; Jimmie Lee Jackson; career; family history; Civil Rights; work at Judson College; Marion; Perry 0112 Born 1920s; female; Civil Rights; town life; Coretta Scott King; Martin Luther King; demonstrations; The Selma to Montgomery March; race issues; Greensboro; Hale ; same participant as int Born 1920s; male; rural life; city life; farming; boll weevil; soil comparison in relation to boll weevils; Montgomery; Montgomery 0114 Born 1940s; male; local history; church; local economy; Pintlala; Montgomery 0115 Born 1930s; male; city life; education; musician; blue grass; music career; Birmingham; Jefferson ; Montgomery; Montgomery 0116 Born 1940s; female; civil rights; Tuskegee Institute; TILE; Montgomery Bus Boycott ; the Selma to Montgomery March; Martin Luther King; voting rights; Montgomery; Montgomery ; same as participant in int 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

10 0118 Born 1920s; female; city life; childhood; life during WWII; life during the depression; household workers; movie theatre; Montgomery; Montgomery 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 0120 Born 1920s; male; Alabama Power; Auburn University; college; black belt artist; art; hay bales; method of creating art; current life; Demopolis; Marengo ; Forkland; Greene 0121 Born 1930s; female; rural life; farming; education; childhood; actress; black belt plays; race relations; Union Springs; Bullock 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 0124 Born 1920s; male; education; childhood; Greenville; Butler 0125 Born 1940s; male; childhood; town life; black belt economy; local economy; law practice; education issues; local business; Eutaw; Greene 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 ; Brent; Bibb 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 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

11 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 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 ; Boligee, Greene 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 ; Peterman; Beatrice; Illinois; Missouri; 0137 Born 1950s; male; artist; poster prints; current life; observations of York, Sumter and Gordo, Pickens ; corporations 0138 Born 1960s;female; farming; Alabama State: Army; UPS; moved up North; Emelle; Gainesville, Sumter 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 0140 Born 1940s; female; town society; town life; education; current healthcare; food; life history; private academies; public school; current life; Greensboro, Hale 0141 Born 1960s;county politics; current town life; toxic coal ash dump; human rights issues; nightclub; Uniontown, Perry 0142 Born 1950s; military service; sharecropping; farming; rural life; voting issues; politics; politician; postal service; Greensboro; Sawyerville; Hale 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 0146 Born 1940s; male; dairy farming; milk economics; cattle; current tagging cattle; current corn prices; genetics and cattle; Marion Junction, Dallas

12 0147 Born 1940s; female; migrant workers; educator; Florida; library work; current life; college; current town life; public schools; private academies; Greensboro, Hale 0148 Born 1930s;male; female; interview with husband and wife; goat farming; small farm; rural life; middle-eastern customs; The Federation; Louisiana; Boyd, Sumter ; 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 0150 Born 1940s; female; educator; college life; husband in military service; public schools; cattle; Greensboro; Hale 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 0152 Born 1930s; male; farming; rural life; tornado; cattle; cooking; forestry; lumber; prisons; anecdotes; Brent; Bibb 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 0154 Born 1950s; female; blues musician; music; church; juke joints; musician; Carrolton; Aliceville; Pickens ; Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa Count 0155 Born 1940s;female; rural life; music; Scared Harp; Christian Harmony; church; Primitive Baptist; tornado; Vietnam War; Brent; Bibb 0156 Born 1930s; Born 1970s; mother and daughter interview; female; sharecropper; farming; rural life; toxic coal ash dump; pollution; environmental issues; Uniontown; Perry 0157 Born 1970s; female; current education issues; public schools; current town life; current life; Uniontown, Perry 0158 Born 1940s; female; town society; NASA; computers; technology; town life; childhood; Eutaw; Greene ; Greensboro; Hale

13 0159 Born 1940s; female; Latino human rights issues; town life; protesting; gender issues; library work; Evergreen; Conecuh 0160 Born 1940s; male; rural life; cattle; politician; politics; cattle stockyards; cattle prices; current corn price issue; race issues; Letohatchee; Lowndes 0161 Born 1940s; Civil Rights; Malcolm X;SNCC; race and illness; tuberculosis; class issues; race issues; Montgomery; Montgomery Co.; same participant as Born 1940s; male; small farming; rural life; community; education; educator; Civil Rights; Selma to Montgomery March; 1970s; 1980s; voter registration; Lowndesboro; Lowndes 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 0164 Born 1930s; male; bar-tending; clubs; music; Meridian; pool hustling; dominoes; gambling; York; Sumter 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 0166 Born 1950s; female; local business owner; Vanity Fair; Monroeville; Monroe 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 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

14 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 0172 Born 1950s; male; race issues; genealogical history; Creek; Native Americans; school integration; rock and roll; music; George Wallace; log cabins; Wetumpka; Moundville; Hale 0173 Born 1930s; male; Vanity Fair; manufacturing; corporations; NAFTA; garment plants; labor issues; Monroeville; Monroe ; Demopolis; Marengo 0174 Born 1950s; female; small farming; rural life; education; canning; born at home by midwife; wagons; ferry; community; courting; college; Jackson State; Coatopa; Sumter ; Demopolis; Marengo 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 ; Gordonville; Little Texas; Lowndes 0176 Born 1950s; cotton gin; Alabama rivers; working on the rivers; engineering; town life; marching band; soybeans; college; 1970s; Eutaw; Greene ; Livingston; Sumter 0177 Born 1960s; male; town life; local economy; Veteran's Affairs; Army; Greensboro; Hale 0178 Born 1980s; male; sausage; hogs; local business; family business; Evergreen; Conecuh 0179 Born 1910s; female; rural life; education; sharecropper; farming; church; boarding school; courting; community; Gainesville; Sumter 0180 Born 1930s; female; winter garden; rural life; church; milk cows; sweet potatoe banking; chores; moved up North; Hamner; Gainesville; Sumter 0181 Marachi band; latino life; HB Born 1950s; female; town life; landowners; sharecroppers; Civil War reenactment; family history; genealogical history; race issues; University of Alabama; DHR; Hospice: politics; Gainesville; Sumter

15 0183 Born 1930s; female; professional musician; Bluegrass; Gospel; rural life; small farming; Leroy; Washington ; 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 ; Bellamy; Sumter ; same participant as Born 1950s; female; town life; church; town fire; education; civil war reenactment; Gainesville; Sumter 0186 Born 1940s; male; county newspaper; newspaper business; Alabama Legislature; local park; St. Stephens; Washington ; Jackson; Clarke 0187 Born 1940s; male; town life; current life; business owner; college; Livingston; voter fraud; welfare system; Greensboro; Hale 0188 Born 1950s; male; Vanity Fair; town life; education; college; insurance business; turkey hunting; cattle; Monroeville; Monroe 0189 Born 1930s; female; rural life; sharecropper; farming; sacred harp; christian harmony; education; church; Eoline; Bibb 0190 Born 1940s; male; attorney; judicial system; landowner; newspaper business; politics; hunting; Greensboro; Hale 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 0192 Born 1940s; female; town life; community; hunting; catfish plant; education; non-profit work; discrimination; hospital work; canning; Greensboro; Hale 0193 Born 1950s;female; latino rights; immigration; latino life; current events; HB56; Catholic Church; human trafficking; Montgomery; Montgomery 0194 Born 1920s; male; small farming; strawberry farming; rural life; education; WWII; China; military service; telephones; living without electricity; moonshine; Evergreen; Castleberrry; Conecuh 0195 Born 1950s; male; rural life; hunting; dogs; family history; history of land; Ellards; Perry

16 0196 Born 1950s; male; blues; blues musician; friendship with Willie King; juke joints; Carrollton; Pickens ; Northport, Tuscaloosa 0197 Born 1960s; female; town life; race relations; domestic workers; politics; education; school integration; childhood; Uniontown; Perry 0198 Born 1940s; male; Vanity Fair; town life; artisan; pottery; Monroeville; Monroe 0199 Born 1950s; female; town life; Vanity Fair; corporations; NAFTA; current town life; Monroeville; Monroe 0200 Born 1930s; Born 1950s; female; female; rural life; sharecropping; farming; land eviction; landowners; education; Gainesville; Sumter 0202 Born 1950s; town life; church; family history; librarian work; animal shelter; dogs; Evergreen; Conecuh 0203 Born 1930s; male; Civil Rights activist; sit-ins; military service; current life; town life; voter registration; voting rights; Eutaw; Greene 0204 Born 1920s; female; sharecropper; farming; rural life; town life; Civil Rights; Greensboro; Hale 0205 Born 1970s; female; church; current education; public schools; local economy; Panola; Gainesville; Sumter 0206 Born 1970s; latino life; immigration; current education; race issues; church; Montgomery; Montgomery 0207 Born 1920s; female; Civil Rights; town life; church; education; sports; Coretta Scott King; Martin Luther King; Greensboro; Hale ; look at Born 1950s; male; family business; family history; Evergreen; Conecuh 0210 Born 1940s; female; sharecropping; small farming; rural life; church; home remedies; midwives; moved up North; artist; segregation; college; Tishabee; Greene 0211 Born 1950s; female; school integration; rural life; segregation; education; politics; Coatopa; Livingston; Sumter

17 0212 Born 1980; female; attorney; immigration rights; HB56; latinos; hispanics; community organizing; Alabama Legislature; University of West Alabama; Livingston; Sumter ; Montgomery; Montgomery 0213 Born 1920s; male; town life; postal service; city council; rolling store; education; water shortage; Centreville; Bibb 0214 Born 1950s; male; politician; politics; sawmill; community; rural life; church; World War II anecdote; McShan community; Carrolton; Pickens 0215 Born 1930s; female; sharecropping; farming; truck farming; POW camp; life during World War II; community organizing; Old Carrollton Courthouse; Carrollton; Pickens 0216 Born 1930s; rural life; farming; education; local history; family history; MOWA: native americans; life without electricity; historian; Chatom; Hobson community; Washington 0217 Born 1920s; female; education; educator; rural life; town life; Montgomery; Montgomery ; Hayneville; Lowndes 0218 Born 1980s; female; business owner; fashion; clothing; boutique; marketing; Monroeville; Monroe 0219 Born 1930s; female; mill village; victory gardens; canning; tap dancing; Jasper; Walker ; Brent; Bibb 0220 Born 1930s; male; rural life; small farming; wages; cotton; hogs; Lawley; Brent; Bibb ; same participant as int Born 1920s; coal mining; coal mining town; commissary; Cahaba River; segregation; photography; Dora; Walker ; West Blocton; Bibb 0222 Born 1920s; female; educator; public schools; education; tenant farming; rural life; town life; Civil Rights; current education issues; landowner; Lisman; Choctaw 0223 Born 1920; female; coal mining town; farming; Brent; Bibb 0224 Born 1930s; sharecropping; small farming; rural life; church; education; Civil Rights; Methodist pastor; Martin Luther King; hunting; college; Auburn University; Bermuda; Conecuh ; Monroeville; Monroe ; same participant as 0287

18 0225 Born 1930s; female; town life; tornado; Marion; Perry ; Brent; Bibb 0226 Born 1930s; female; town life; family; education; current life; church; Reform; Pickens 0227 Born 1940s; male; rural life; farming; education; car racing; moonshine; discrimination; Lowndesboro; Lowndes 0228 Born 1930s; female; rural life; community; small farming; education; church; college; quilting; current education; Womack Hill: Choctaw ; Greensboro; Hale 0229 Born 1940s; male; cattle; show cattle; stockyards; Monroeville, Monroe 0230 Born 1940s; male; town life; transportation; tornado; church; politician; politics; education; Brent; Centreville; Bibb 0231 Born 1930s; male; professor; newspaper business; tornado; town life; Centreville; Bibb ; Tuscaloosa; Tuscaloosa 0232 Born 1930s; female; rural life; farming; marriage; cigar plant; Selma; Marion; Perry ; Brent; Bibb ; same participant as Born 1960s; newspaper business; local economy; current life; town life; transportation; photography; Evergreen; Conecuh 0236 Born 1930s; female; rural life; coal mining town; subsistence farming; church; education; Belle Ellen; Bibb 0237 Born 1930s; female; country store; sharecroppers; life during World War II; family history; Yantley; Choctaw ; Butler; Choctaw ; same interview participant as Born 1950s; male; forestry; school integration; pine trees; pine tree farming; wildlife; Vietnam War; forest fires; military service; veteran; childhood; Brewton; Escambia ; Evergreen, Conecuh 0239 Born 1920s; female; The Great Depression; small farming; rural life; education; University of Montevallo; educator; Murphy's Crossing; Bibb ; Livingston, Sumter 0240 Born 1930s; male; local history; genealogical history; family history; local economy; church; Grove Hill; Jackson; Clarke

19 0241 Born 1930s; male rural life; sharecropping; landowner; farming; politician; politics; hunting; fishing; Pickensville; Pickens 0242 Born 1910s; male; rural life; roma; sawmills; great depression; cattle rustling; mules; wagons; Edna; Choctaw 0243 Born 1920s; male; veteran of World War II; the pacific; Pearl Harbor; small farming; rural life; education; Bostic; Gordo, Pickens ; Millport; Lamar 0244 Born 1950s; male; rural life; small farming; SNCC; Selma to Montgomery March; Alabama State University in Montgomery; accounting; school integration; White Hall; Lowndes 0245 Born 1940s; female; town life; nursing; education; family history; library work; after-school programs; current life; Union Springs; Bullock 0246 Born 1940s; hog farming; rural life; farming; landowner; town life; country music; songwriter; musician; Greenville; Butler 0247 Born 1930s; male; pharmacy; basketball; town life; Civil Rights; school integration; segregation; Marion; Perry 0248 Born 1930s; male; town life; segregation; Civil Rights; family history; family business; politics; jewish; politician; school integration; Marion, Perry 0249 Born 1980s; suburbs; Illinois; musician; Sucarnochee revue; University of West Alabama; Livingston; Sumter 0250 Born 1940s; rural life; community; small farming; attorney; Civil Rights; military service ; college; current life; politics; Marion; Perry 0251 Born 1930s; male; tenant farming; educator; education; changes in education; current education; race issues; rural life; college; cattle; stockyards; Burkeville; Lowndes 0252 Born 1920s; female; sharecropping; rural life; community; church; education; educator; board of education; Fort Deposit; Lowndes 0253 Born 1930s; male; small farming; rural life; town life; education; college; Troy State; art; artist; quilting; living without electricity; segregation; Union Springs; Bullock

20 0254 Born 1910s; female; rural life; education; small farming; college; educator; Marion; Perry 0255 Born 1930s; male; landowning; sharecropping; cucumbers; farming; rural life; politics; family history; Ridge; Greenville; Butler 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 0258 Born 1910s; male; military service; World War II experience; North Africa; Italy; rural life; CCC; hunting; bird dogs; golfing; college; ROTC; Butler ; Prattville; Autauga 0259 Born 1940s; female; modern farming; family history; cotton market; current life; Leroy; Washington 0261 Born 1940s; female; town life; rural life; logistics; ship-building; education; technology; Butler; Choctaw 0262 Born 1940s; female; rural life; race issues; quilting; education; church; Civil Rights; town life; Sunflower ; Mississippi; Union Springs; Bullock 0263 Born 1930s; male; rural life; church; education; small farming; Troy State; college; writer; professor; Hall's Crossyard; Bullock 0264 Born 1950s; rural life; town life; education; college; Troy State; community; church; poverty; segregation; Department of Human Resources; St. Clair; Lowndesboro; Lowndes ; Tuskegee; Macon 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 ; Monroeville; Monroe county; Georgiana; Butler 0266 Born 1920s; female; great depression; Foscue House; rural life; childhood; town life; Gaineswood; Demopolis; Marengo ; Birmingham; Jefferson 0267 Born 1930s; male; sharecropping; farming; rural life; segregation; discrimination; landowners; town life; race relations; Geiger; Sumter

21 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 0269 Born 1920s; male; rural life; community; education; hunting; race relations; Gieger; Sumter 0270 Born 1940s; female; town life; POW camp; library work; church; childhood; camp Aliceville; University of Alabama; life during Vietnam era; Aliceville; Pickens 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 0272 Born 1970s; male; local banking; town life; church; Vanity Fair; NAFTA; economics discussion; Monroeville, Monroe 0274 Born 1930s; male; town life; agricultural science; cattle; Auburn University; Pine Apple; Wilcox 0275 Born 1940s; female; town life; childhood; Department of Human Resources; education; church; Linden; Marengo 0276 Born 1930s; female; town life; playing; life during World War II; rationing; restaurants; church; movie theatres; society; hunting; Camden, Wilcox 0278 Born 1940s; male; rural life; education; college education ; Knoxville College; educator; mathematics; changes in education; Camden Academy; educational method; technology; Boykin; Camden; Wilcox ; Mobile, Mobile 0280 Born 1930s; male; sawmill; logging; rural life; education; East Perry; Perry ; Brent; Bibb 0281 Born 1930s; female; rural life; farming; Selma; Marion; Perry ; Brent; Bibb ; same participant as Born 1930s; female; sharecropper; farming; quilting; education; rural life; country store; rolling store; West Blocton; Centreville; Brent, Bibb 0283 female; church; country store; educator; education; rural schoolhouse; church; Brent; Bibb

22 0284 Born 1930s; male; sharecropping; farming; rural life; community; church; military service; Randolph; Six Mile; Brent; Bibb 0285 Born 1930s; male; small farming; rural life; education; community; Bessemer; Lawley; Brent; Bibb ; same participant as int Born 1930s-1950s; group interview; male; female; rural life; community; sharecropping; landowners; Scooba; Mississippi; Panola; Gainesville; Hamner; Sumter ; Pickens 0287 Born 1930s; male; sharecropper; small farming; rural life; community; home remedies; illness; daily routine; hunting; college; Bermuda; Conecuh ; Monroeville; Monroe ; same participant as Born 1920s; female; hymns; Barbara Allen; Bellamy; Sumter ; Bear Creek Road; Bibb ; same participant as Born 1920s; male; rural life; education; career; barbeque club; Tombigbee River; trains; business owner; missionary work; family history; Panola; Sumter