Interview with Ada Tolbert

Interview with Ada Tolbert

In this interview, Ada Tolbert recalls attending Industrial High School, later called Parker. She explains that they were taught a good balance of regular academic subjects and practical skills. They took such classes as cooking and sewing (for the girls) and carpentry and printing (for the boys). S...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Format: Electronic
Published: University of Alabama Libraries
Subjects:
Oral histories
Online Access:http://purl.lib.ua.edu/54346
format Electronic
collection Working Lives Oral History Collection
building University of Alabama Libraries
publisher University of Alabama Libraries
topic Oral histories
spellingShingle Oral histories
Interview with Ada Tolbert
fulltopic Oral histories
Tolbert, Ada--Interviews; interviews; transcripts
description In this interview, Ada Tolbert recalls attending Industrial High School, later called Parker. She explains that they were taught a good balance of regular academic subjects and practical skills. They took such classes as cooking and sewing (for the girls) and carpentry and printing (for the boys). She also remembers being taught by later famous musicians Fess Whatley and Malachi Wilkerson. Tolbert herself eventually became a teacher. She taught at the Slate School and also at several company schools. She says the company schools were much better than the ones in the county.The digitization of this collection was funded by a gift from EBSCO Industries.
spelling Interview with Ada TolbertTolbert, Ada (Interviewee); Hamrick, Peggy (Interviewer)Sound; Text1984 August 29engelectronic; image/jpeg; 1 audio cassette; 1 transcriptIn this interview, Ada Tolbert recalls attending Industrial High School, later called Parker. She explains that they were taught a good balance of regular academic subjects and practical skills. They took such classes as cooking and sewing (for the girls) and carpentry and printing (for the boys). She also remembers being taught by later famous musicians Fess Whatley and Malachi Wilkerson. Tolbert herself eventually became a teacher. She taught at the Slate School and also at several company schools. She says the company schools were much better than the ones in the county.The digitization of this collection was funded by a gift from EBSCO Industries.Tolbert, Ada--Interviews; interviews; transcriptsUnited States--Alabama--Jefferson County--BirminghamThe University of Alabama Libraries Special CollectionsWorking Lives Oral History Projectu0008_0000003_0000068http://purl.lib.ua.edu/54346Images are in the public domain or protected under U.S. copyright law (Title 17, U.S. Code), and both types may be used for research and private study. For publication, commercial use, or reproduction, in print or digital format, of all images and/or the accompanying data, users are required to secure prior written permission from the copyright holder and from archives@ua.edu. When permission is granted, please credit the images as Courtesy of The University of Alabama Libraries Special Collections.http://cdm17336.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/u0008_0000003/id/75
title Interview with Ada Tolbert
titleStr Interview with Ada Tolbert
url http://purl.lib.ua.edu/54346
id UAworkingoh75
thumbnail http://cdm17336.contentdm.oclc.org/utils/getthumbnail/collection/u0008_0000003/id/75
_version_ 1705814249001975808

Similar Items