- Collection:
- Happiness & hard times
- Title:
- Mr. Herbert Haygood
- Creator:
- Haygood, Herbert
Haygood, Twila - Date of Original:
- 1973
- Subject:
- Savannah (Ga.)--History--20th century
Savannah (Ga.)--Social life and customs--20th century
African Americans--Georgia--Savannah--Interviews
Sharecropping
African Americans--Religion
Transportation--Georgia--Savannah
Savannah (Ga.)--Race relations - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- At the time of the interview, Mr. Haygood was a 65 year old retired railroad employee who had 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."
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/happiness-lane/12
- Language:
- eng
- Holding Institution:
- Lane Library (Georgia Southern University, Armstrong Campus)
- Rights:
-
