Interview with Johnny Phillips
In this interview, Phillips briefly discusses living through the Depression in Birmingham, Alabama. Phillips explains that he took no help from anybody during the Depression. He didn't take advantage of the Red Cross or work for the WPA; he grew a garden and raised animals. He says his family b...
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| Summary: | In this interview, Phillips briefly discusses living through the Depression in Birmingham, Alabama. Phillips explains that he took no help from anybody during the Depression. He didn't take advantage of the Red Cross or work for the WPA; he grew a garden and raised animals. He says his family bought coal and also burned their own wood. He mentions hoboing and how dangerous it was, but he says he never hoboed. Phillips explains that he left Birmingham and went up north in the forties and fifties for work. Work was scarce in Birmingham, but he got a job at a Ford plant in Chicago.The digitization of this collection was funded by a gift from EBSCO Industries. |
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