Collection Items

  • Audio Recording
    Enid Pinkney interview conducted by Candacy A. Taylor, 2018-12-27. Dr. Pinkney spearheaded the restoration of the historic Hampton House, a Green Book hotel in Miami, Florida. The Hampton House was the premier spot for black celebrities and travelers in the 1950s and 1960s. It was frequented by luminaries such as Martin Luther King Jr.--(it was where he practiced his "I Have a Dream" speech)--and it also the place where Malcolm X proselytized Cassius…
    • Contributor: Pinkney, Enid C. - Occupational Folklife Project - Taylor, Candacy A.
    • Date: 2018-01-01
  • Audio Recording
    Edward Clinton Davis interview conducted by Candacy A. Taylor, 2018-12-31. Dr. Edward Davis talks about his father's role in owning the Ben Moore, a Green Book hotel in Montgomery Alabama. His father purchased seventeen properties in the neighborhood street where the Ben Moore hotel was located. Davis inherited all of the properties after his father passed and he discusses the challenges of being a property owner and his efforts to preserve the building. Davis…
    • Contributor: Occupational Folklife Project - Taylor, Candacy A. - Davis, Edward Clinton
    • Date: 2018-01-01
  • Audio Recording
    Charles Don Loper interview conducted by Candacy A. Taylor, 2018-12-03. Mr. Loper inherited his auto repair business from his father, who originally listed the shop in the Green Book. Mr. Loper discusses the difficulty associated with running a small business in a poverty-stricken neighborhood plagued with crime. He also talks about the changes in the automobile/tire repair industry and the role that computers and auto dealerships have played in possibly making small, independent businesses…
    • Contributor: Occupational Folklife Project - Taylor, Candacy A. - Loper, Charles Don
    • Date: 2018-01-01
  • Audio Recording
    Jerry Markowitz interview conducted by Candacy A. Taylor, 2018-12-28. Jerry Markowitz's parents owned the Hampton House, a popular Green Book hotel in Miami, Florida. Markowitz talks about the history of the Hampton House and the talent that performed at and patronized the establishment including Martin Luther King Jr., Cassius Clay/Muhammad Ali, Flip Wilson, Cab Calloway and Cannonball Adderley as well as a female impersonator. Growing up as a teenager, Markowitz bused tables and…
    • Contributor: Markowitz, Jerry M. - Occupational Folklife Project - Taylor, Candacy A.
    • Date: 2018-01-01
  • Audio Recording
    Ollie Gates interview conducted by Candacy A. Taylor, 2018-11-30. Ollie Gates owns and operates Gates Bar-B-Q in Kansas City, Missouri. He and his family have had six locations in the area over the last 72 years. Gates talks about working with his father when the establishment was called "Old Kentuck's BBQ." Gates briefly discusses the regional differences between Kansas City and Tennessee barbecue flavors. He also talks about the relentless and ongoing issue…
    • Contributor: Gates, Ollie - Occupational Folklife Project - Taylor, Candacy A.
    • Date: 2018-01-01
  • Audio Recording
    Henrie M. Treadwell interview conducted by Candacy A. Taylor, 2018-12-17. Henrie Treadwell's aunt, Modjeska Simkins, ran a Green Book hotel about 10 miles outside of Columbia, South Carolina. Treadwell talks about growing up with Simkins, a fierce civil rights activist, who set up several NAACP chapters throughout South Carolina. She tells a story about spending time with James Brown as a child when he stayed at the motel and took her to one of…
    • Contributor: Treadwell, Henrie M. - Occupational Folklife Project - Taylor, Candacy A.
    • Date: 2018-01-01
  • Audio Recording
    Dino Thompson interview conducted by Candacy A. Taylor, 2018-12-08. Dino Thompson, a white/Greek-American, grew up at his family's restaurant, the Kozy Korner, in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. This is where he met Charlie Fitzgerald, a black nightclub owner, whose establishment, Charlie's Place, was listed in the Green Book. Dino regularly patronized Charlie's Place, and in this interview, he shares stories about Charlie Fitzgerald and the experiences he had at his nightclub as well…
    • Contributor: Thompson, Dino - Occupational Folklife Project - Taylor, Candacy A.
    • Date: 2018-01-01
  • Audio Recording
    Herbert Sulaiman interview conducted by Candacy A. Taylor, 2018-12-08. Herbert Sulaiman, a black man raised in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, talks about Charlie Fitzgerald, a black business owner who ran Charlie's Place, an integrated nightclub that was listed in the Green Book. Also listed as "Fitzgerald's," the establishment featured fabulous musicians: from Count Basie to Duke Ellington to Little Richard. Sulaiman shares stories about the racism he experienced driving with his parents through…
    • Contributor: Occupational Folklife Project - Sulaiman, Herbert - Taylor, Candacy A.
    • Date: 2018-01-01
  • Film, Video
    Leah Chase interview conducted by Candacy A. Taylor, 2018-12-18. Leah Chase is chef and owner of Dooky Chase's restaurant in New Orleans, LA. Dooky Chase's has been called one of the first fine dining restaurant for black people in the United States. Chase was 96 years old at the time of this interview and she passed just months after, so it is a gift to record her lucid, passionate, insightful, and powerful stories…
    • Contributor: Occupational Folklife Project - Chase, Leah - Taylor, Candacy A.
    • Date: 2018-01-01
  • Audio Recording
    Marcus Wimby interview conducted by Candacy A. Taylor, 2018-12-13 Marcus Wimby's grandfather's aunt, Geneva Haugabrooks, started Haugabrooks Funeral Home in Atlanta in 1929. It was listed in the Green Book and became a staple in the community. It has served its community for 90 years. At its height, Haugabrooks was burying about 1,000 people a year. Wimby talks about the Home's founder, Geneva, also called "Ma Haugabrooks," who was a major force in…
    • Contributor: Wimby, Marcus - Occupational Folklife Project - Taylor, Candacy A.
    • Date: 2018
  • Audio Recording
    Nelson Malden interview conducted by Candacy A. Taylor, 2018-12-31. Nelson Malden was Martin Luther King's barber. He cut Reverend King's hair for six years from 1954 to 1960 at the Malden Bros. Barbershop, which was located on the first floor of the Ben Moore Hotel, a Green Book site in Montgomery, Alabama. Malden started cutting hair in 1948 and served other legendary figures such as Little Richard, B.B. King, Reverend Abernathy's wife, and…
    • Contributor: Taylor, Candacy A. - Occupational Folklife Project - Malden, Nelson
    • Date: 2018-01-01
  • Audio Recording
    Patricia Christman Bailey and Kenneth Christman interview conducted by Candacy A. Taylor, 2018-12-05. Kenneth Christman and Patricia Christman Bailey's father opened the R&R Liquor Store in 1948 in Nashville, Tennessee, and it has been in operation ever since. The store was built by a black architect, and Kenneth worked there for 42 years. He speaks about the detrimental affect the freeway (urban renewal) has had on their business. The siblings discuss other business challenges, including the fact…
    • Contributor: Occupational Folklife Project - Christman, Kenneth - Bailey, Patricia Christman - Taylor, Candacy A.
    • Date: 2018-01-01
  • Audio Recording
    David Swett interview conducted by Candacy A. Taylor, 2018-12-05. David Swett's is a very successful African American business owner. His father ran several businesses in the 1950s, including a jitney service, a grocery store, a restaurant, and a tavern. Swett's restaurant opened in 1954 and has remained a family business ever since. David started working there in 1969 when he was in high school. He tells how he then worked briefly at a…
    • Contributor: Swett, David - Occupational Folklife Project - Taylor, Candacy A.
    • Date: 2018-01-01
  • Audio Recording
    Allen Threatt interview conducted by Candacy A. Taylor, 2019-01-07. Reverend Allen Threatt's grandfather opened the Threatt Service Station in 1915 in Luther, Oklahoma. The station is situated right on Route 66. Although it was not listed in the Green Book, it was one of the few black-owned service stations on the Mother Road. Since nearly half of all counties on Route 66 were "sundown towns"-- (i.e., all-white towns that banned black people after…
    • Contributor: Occupational Folklife Project - Threatt, Allen - Taylor, Candacy A.
    • Date: 2019-01-01