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Mr. Herbert Haygood, Twila Haygood Jan 1973

Mr. Herbert Haygood, Twila Haygood

Happiness & Hard Times

Mr. Haygood is a 65 year old retired railroad employee who has lived in and around Savannah most of his life. He describes the hard conditions for a black worker in the past decades. "I was working for a farmer in the county [for] eight dollars a month. Eight dollars and dinner for a month's work."

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Mr. Sam Jones, Mr. Bruce Washington, Mr. Herman Johnson, Mr. Rick Morgan, Thomas Fuller Jan 1973

Mr. Sam Jones, Mr. Bruce Washington, Mr. Herman Johnson, Mr. Rick Morgan, Thomas Fuller

Happiness & Hard Times

This was a group interview of four members of the Black American Movement (B.A.M.) of Armstrong State College expressing their views on the movement in Savannah.

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Mrs. Laudess James, Debbie Ulmer Jan 1973

Mrs. Laudess James, Debbie Ulmer

Happiness & Hard Times

Mrs. James has lived in Savannah for 65 years. She vividly describes the city market. "They'd have Negro women there with big old baskets of cooked crab and shrimp and they'd put them on their head and walk in the streets hollering, 'Yeah Crabs! Yeah Shrimps!' going on like that."

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Mrs. Ethel Lee Lanon, Twila Haygood Jan 1973

Mrs. Ethel Lee Lanon, Twila Haygood

Happiness & Hard Times

Mrs. Lanon has been in Savannah since the end of the Depression. She talks about church groups in the 1940's.

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Mr. Ben Mitchell, Twila Haygood Jan 1973

Mr. Ben Mitchell, Twila Haygood

Happiness & Hard Times

He is now 65 years old, but Mr. Mitchell came to Savannah during the Depression years as a young man to find construction work. "Yeah and railroad in the area as a young man. Work on Southern railroad and the Coastline railroad... It was hard work but I was a young man."

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Mrs. Jones, Donna Thomas Jan 1973

Mrs. Jones, Donna Thomas

Happiness & Hard Times

Mrs. Jones came to Savannah in 1926 and got her first job. "The first job I had was working at Adlers on Dollar Days. You worked 12 hours for one dollar." She talks about life in the 30's, food stamps, and running a service station in 1945.

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Mr. M.C. Pruitt, Becky Pruitt Jan 1973

Mr. M.C. Pruitt, Becky Pruitt

Happiness & Hard Times

Mr. Pruitt has lived in Savannah since 1926. He remembers during his childhood visiting the Tin City section of town. "There were literally hundreds of homes where the Negro population lived. They built these homes out of tin and cardboard and wood or whatever. Some of them were no more than four by four. These were stuck back in among the mangrove and elderberry swamps along the Savannah River."

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Mr. Frank Rossiter, Becky Pruitt Jan 1973

Mr. Frank Rossiter, Becky Pruitt

Happiness & Hard Times

Mr. Rossiter is a native Savannahian who talks about his boyhood in the Irish section of town. He talks about the newspapers, local politics, and his love of Savannah. "I'd rather be a fiddler in Savannah than a harpist in heaven."

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General Paschal N. Strong, Donna Thomas, Debbie Ulmer Jan 1973

General Paschal N. Strong, Donna Thomas, Debbie Ulmer

Happiness & Hard Times

A graduate of West Point at the age of 20, General Strong is a man of wide experiences, as an Army engineer, adventurer, and writer of stories. "I wrote a lot of sports stories, a lot of sailing stories, a lot of mountain stories. I wrote about everything."

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Mr. Anthony Ryan, Donna Thomas Jan 1973

Mr. Anthony Ryan, Donna Thomas

Happiness & Hard Times

Mr. Ryan talks about the economic changes of River Street from 1932 - 1973. "The buildings are very unique. They are 4 and 5 stories tall. They were built in the early 1800's for cotton warehouses. The lower levels were used to store cotton and the main street or Bay Street level was the office and the level above it was used as the hotel for the planters to come and stay when they came to do business."

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Mr. James E. Taylor, Debbie Ulmer, Donna Thomas Jan 1973

Mr. James E. Taylor, Debbie Ulmer, Donna Thomas

Happiness & Hard Times

Mr. Taylor, a black educationalist, talks about the problems of getting a higher education for blacks. "I'm afraid there is some disdain accorded to quote 'Black Professionals' unquote. Many people seem to engender a feeling of distrust."

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Mrs. Josephine Taylor, Becky Pruitt Jan 1973

Mrs. Josephine Taylor, Becky Pruitt

Happiness & Hard Times

Mrs. Taylor talks about the old city market, Tybee Island, the Prohibition Era in Savannah, and the joy of living in the city. "Savannah is like an old shoe. The longer you wear it the better it fits."

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Mr. Reppard L. Thomas, Donna Thomas Jan 1973

Mr. Reppard L. Thomas, Donna Thomas

Happiness & Hard Times

Mr. Thomas describes what it was like to be a bus and streetcar operator in Savannah for 37 years. "And you met some mighty nice people, some mighty rugged people. Of all section, of all kinds; preachers, down to gangsters. And you had to treat a passenger as a passenger."

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Mr. W.D. Ulmer, Debbie Ulmer Jan 1973

Mr. W.D. Ulmer, Debbie Ulmer

Happiness & Hard Times

Mr. Ulmer is a retired plumber who has lived and worked in Savannah for almost 54 years. "The plumbers and the helpers rode bicycles in those days. We rode bicycles as far as Pooler, Bethesda, and Thunderbolt."

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Ms. Myna Lee Zeigler, Twila Haygood Jan 1973

Ms. Myna Lee Zeigler, Twila Haygood

Happiness & Hard Times

Ms. Zeigler recalls the integration demonstrations in Savannah and her participation. "I didn't lay down but if they say don't go to a store I tried not to go..."

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The Story Of Bulloch County, Brooks Coleman Jan 1973

The Story Of Bulloch County, Brooks Coleman

Bulloch County Historical Society Publications

A history of Bulloch County, Georgia. Chapters include: “In the Beginning,” “Bulloch County is Created,” “Early Manners and Customs,” “Statesboro,” “Bulloch County Goes Democratic,” “Slavery, Succession, and War,” and “Schools.”

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Bulletin Of Armstrong State College 1973-1974, Armstrong State College Jan 1973

Bulletin Of Armstrong State College 1973-1974, Armstrong State College

Armstrong Office of the Registrar: Undergraduate Catalogs (Archived)

Academic catalog for Armstrong State College.

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Proboscipedia, A Homeotic Mutant In Aedes Aegypti (L.) (Diptera: Culicidae), John Roach Roberts Jr. Jan 1973

Proboscipedia, A Homeotic Mutant In Aedes Aegypti (L.) (Diptera: Culicidae), John Roach Roberts Jr.

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

No abstract provided.

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Reflector, Georgia Southern University Jan 1973

Reflector, Georgia Southern University

Reflector Yearbook (1926-1989)

University yearbook

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Mrs. Evelyn Davis, Donna Thomas, Debbie Ulmer Jan 1973

Mrs. Evelyn Davis, Donna Thomas, Debbie Ulmer

Happiness & Hard Times

Mrs. Davis talks about the depression, the Ford Plantation in Richmond Hill, and the hard times of those lean years. "And there was times that you would wonder where the next meal was actually going to come from. It was just hard times."

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Mrs. Lucille Myer, Donna Thomas Jan 1973

Mrs. Lucille Myer, Donna Thomas

Happiness & Hard Times

Mrs. Myer was a W.P.A. fieldworker during the hard years of the 1930's, serving in school cafeterias.

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Mrs. Newkirk, Debbie Ulmer, Sandra Ulmer Jan 1973

Mrs. Newkirk, Debbie Ulmer, Sandra Ulmer

Happiness & Hard Times

Mrs. Newkirk of Rincon talks about her family who were among the first German immigrants to Georgia, the Salzburgers, who settled in Ebenezer in Effingham County.

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Mrs. Betty Pruitt, Becky Pruitt Jan 1973

Mrs. Betty Pruitt, Becky Pruitt

Happiness & Hard Times

Mrs. Pruitt tells of the mutual help needed during the Depression years. "Everyone would help each other and all. I can remember Momma and the lady down the street exchanging food stamps if one had what the other wanted."

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The Identification And Analysis Of Factors Which Influenced Georgia Southern College Recreation Major Graduates Who Have Taken Full Time Recreation Positions To Leave The Recreation Profession, Wayne Lamar Gay Jan 1973

The Identification And Analysis Of Factors Which Influenced Georgia Southern College Recreation Major Graduates Who Have Taken Full Time Recreation Positions To Leave The Recreation Profession, Wayne Lamar Gay

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

No abstract provided.

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Black Midas: Arthur George Gaston, Patricia Thompson Stelts Jan 1973

Black Midas: Arthur George Gaston, Patricia Thompson Stelts

College of Graduate Studies: Theses & Dissertations (1964–2006)

No abstract provided.

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Life History Of Aaron Munlin, Aaron Munlin, Willie A. Munlin Jan 1973

Life History Of Aaron Munlin, Aaron Munlin, Willie A. Munlin

Bulloch County Historical Society Publications

An autobiography by former slave, Aaron Munlin.

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Geechee 1973, Armstrong State College Jan 1973

Geechee 1973, Armstrong State College

Geechee Yearbook

No abstract provided.

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Ruby D. Hill Dec 1972

Ruby D. Hill

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

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Mrs. Minnie Ree Jones Green Dec 1972

Mrs. Minnie Ree Jones Green

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

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Miss Letha Deloach Dec 1972

Miss Letha Deloach

African American Funeral Programs

No abstract provided.

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