DARE Interview : Birmingham, Alabama; Primary Informant AL059

Fieldworker

Brown, Charlotte

Date

• 1970

Publisher

Dictionary of American Regional English

Summary

• Informant Data:
• AL059: Black; male; age: 60 (old); education: grade school; community type: large city
• Media Files:
• Arthur the Rat. Speaker: AL059 (5:14) [High-pitched whine on tape]
• Full Interview (Tape 0046-S1).
• Content:
• 00:20 Describes town, local history
• 02:50 Working as a letter carrier, moving to railway mail service
• 05:20 End of railway mail system
• 06:45 Changes in postal service since 1938
• 09:15 Merit/demerit system of railway mail system
• 10:25 Helping to manage service station to supplement pension
• 11:25 His large church, building
• 14:25 Daughter went to Catholic schools, became Catholic, other daughter now a teacher
• 15:40 School integration
• 16:35 Arthur the Rat
• 21:45 Tape end