- Collection:
- Living Atlanta oral history collection
- Title:
- Oral history interview of Alice Adams, tape 1 of 2
- Creator:
- West, E. Bernard
- Contributor to Resource:
- Adams, Alice
- Publisher:
- Living Atlanta oral history collection
- Date of Original:
- 1978-12-14
- Subject:
- Domestics--Georgia--Atlanta
Segregation--Georgia--Atlanta
Street railroads
Bolden, Dorothy, 1923-
Lakewood Fairgrounds (Atlanta, Ga.) - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- audio recordings
- Type:
- Moving Image
- Format:
- audio/mpeg
- Description:
- In part one of this two-part interview, former domestic worker Alice Adams describes working for a family in the Druid Hills neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia from approximately 1932-1972. She describes her job as one that required long hours with little pay in return. She earned $4.00 a week but her pay increased to $25.00 a day in her latter years. She was required to work from 7 am until 7 pm everyday except Thursday and Sunday when she worked a half a day. She tells of an instance in which she confronted the woman she worked for and demanded to have two full days off per week. After some initial resistence from her employer her request was granted. Her experiences as a domestic brought her into contact with union organizer Dorothy Bolden. Later in the interview she talks about taking a streetcar to work from her house on Randolph Street in the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood and having to sit in the back when there were seats available. She described times when there were disturbances between blacks and whites on streetcars and also noted the irony of being in such close contact with whites throughout the day and not being allowed to sit next a white person.
- Local Identifier:
- MSS 637.01.01
ahc637001001 - Metadata URL:
- http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/cdm/singleitem/collection/LAohr/id/17/rec/1
- Rights Holder:
- This material is protected by copyright law. (Title 17, U.S Code) Permission for use must be cleared through The Kenan Research Center at the Atlanta History Center. Licensing agreement may be required.
- Extent:
- 7" reel-to-reel audio tape, 3 3/4 ips
Running time, 33:28 - Holding Institution:
- Atlanta History Center
- Rights:
-
