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B., Alfred, April 21, 1976, tape 1, side 1

April 21, 1976

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B., Alfred, April 21, 1976, tape 1, side 1
  • Title
  • B., Alfred, April 21, 1976, tape 1, side 1
  • Date
  • April 21, 1976
  • Identifier
  • 31735073054458-01
  • Source Identifier
  • 31735073054458
  • Description
  • Alfred B. discusses his father moving to Pennsylvania from Virginia, followed by his mother and siblings, and working in Homestead during the strike in 1892. Growing up as a young boy in the early 1910s-20s in Homestead, a "melting pot" town. His experiences of another wave of migration into the Pittsburgh area from the South during World War I and the Great Depression, and the differences between Black migrants and those native to Homestead. The 1919 Steel Strike. Attending vocational school to be a machinist and working various manual labor jobs during summers, including being assigned to a labor gang. Joining the workforce alongside his father in the sanitation department after finishing school, then moving to work in the Homestead Borough. His parents' deaths, his marriage, and moving within Homestead.
  • Extent
  • 46:11 minutes
  • Type
  • sound recording-nonmusical
  • Genre
  • oral histories (literary genre)
  • Source
  • Southern Blacks' Migration to Pittsburgh Oral History Project, 1973-1977
  • Language
  • eng
  • Contributor
  • University of Pittsburgh
  • Collection
  • Southern Blacks' Migration to Pittsburgh Oral History Project
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