Audio Recording Oral history with 80 year old white male, Marked Tree, Arkansas

Oral history with 80 year old white male, Marked Tree, Arkansas

May 28, 1981

About this Item

Title
Oral history with 80 year old white male, Marked Tree, Arkansas
Contributor Names
Clements, William (Collector)
Clark, John Williams (Speaker)
Created / Published
May 28, 1981
Subject Headings
-  English language--Dialects--Arkansas
-  Cotton picking--Arkansas
-  Floods--Mississippi River Valley
-  Men, White--Arkansas--Marked Tree--Language
-  Depressions--1929--Arkansas--Personal narratives
-  Marked Tree (Ark.)--Social life and customs
-  Farmers--Arkansas--Marked Tree--Language
-  Agricultural laborers--Arkansas--Marked Tree--Language
-  United States. Farm Security Administration
-  Stores, Retail--Arkansas--Marked Tree
-  Race relations--Arkansas
-  Furniture--Arkansas--Marked Tree
-  Interviews
-  Narratives
-  Oral histories
-  Personal narratives
-  United States -- Arkansas -- Marked Tree
Genre
Interviews
Narratives
Oral histories
Personal narratives
Notes
-  For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Mid-South center for Oral History, Arkansas State University. Jonesboro, AR
-  80 year old white male.
-  Sharecropping, farming
-  Education. Race relations. Mississippi floods 1937, Farm Security Administration
-  Have additional transcript images not present on the tape (after page 11).
-  "Whites and blacks got along well." He learned how to farm in Arkansas from black farmers. Served in Army from 1942-1943. Got into retail furniture business after the War, in 1944. Talks about business relationships with Jews in St. Louis, and later, ab
Medium
Audio tape; 10.5” reel, 7.5 ips; duration: 31:19
Call Number/Physical Location
AFC 1986/022: AFS 24,301 b02
Source Collection
Center for Applied Linguistics Collection (AFC 1986/022)
Repository
American Folklife Center
Digital Id
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afc1986022.sr03b02
Online Format
audio

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Clements, William, and John Williams Clark. Oral history with 80 year old white male, Marked Tree, Arkansas. 1981. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afccal000031/. (Accessed January 20, 2018.)

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Clements, W. & Clark, J. W. (1981) Oral history with 80 year old white male, Marked Tree, Arkansas. [Audio] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/afccal000031/.

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Clements, William, and John Williams Clark. Oral history with 80 year old white male, Marked Tree, Arkansas. 1981. Audio. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <https://www.loc.gov/item/afccal000031/>.