- Collection:
- Happiness & hard times
- Title:
- Mr. Ben Mitchell
- Creator:
- Mitchell, Ben
Haygood, Twila - Date of Original:
- 1973
- Subject:
- Savannah (Ga.)--History--20th century
Savannah (Ga.)--Social life and customs--20th century
Depressions--1929--Georgia--Savannah
Agriculture--Georgia--Savannah
Savannah (Ga.)--Race relations
African Americans--Georgia--Savannah--Interviews
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )--Georgia--Savannah
African Americans--Civil rights--Georgia--Savannah - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Chatham County, Savannah, 32.08354, -81.09983
- Medium:
- oral histories (literary works)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- 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."
- Metadata URL:
- https://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/happiness-lane/17/
- Language:
- eng
- Holding Institution:
- Lane Library (Georgia Southern University, Armstrong Campus)
- Rights:
-
