Stories tagged "Workers": 40
Stories
Hiding in Plain Sight
"My father tells stories of how occasionally he would leave the city and go to a farm area. And someone would allow him to work for them in exchange for food. And he would sleep in the barn. And he said that happened to him a couple of times.…
Life Under the Nazi Regime
"The family made plans to separate when it became clear that their lives were in danger. They found friends that they could stay with separately. They set up times to meet. And they would never all be together the four of them. They would pass…
Meeting in Atlanta
"[My parents] met here in the U.S. in 1954, when my mother came on holiday to visit from London.
And they were introduced by mutual friends at a concert at Atlanta Symphony Hall, and that’s how they first met.
My father [Helmuth Jacobi]…
The American Rosie the Riveter Association
"Well, you know I wasn’t even interested in it, but somebody had found out my name and told Jane Tucker, and Jane Tucker called me, and she said, 'Would you come and tell us how you got your name?' 'Oh,' I said, 'I’d…
The United Service Organizations (USO)
"We came on Saturday, and my girlfriend from the U of D [University of Detroit] went with me, and we both got assigned to work on Saturday from six to twelve, or maybe it was seven to eleven, I don’t remember, but anyway, we were coming there,…
Working in Saudi Arabia
"And in the Middle East, they came to our place, came to our laboratory, and we talked to them and tell them what we were doing…and someone in the Middle East bought a license from Union Carbide. And they found out that they really didn’t know…
Working for Union Carbide
"I went to work for a company called Union Carbide. This company had a division called the Visking Division, and this division would make skins for skinless wieners. There was a man who noticed that America was buying more and more hot dogs. …
Enrolling at Tuskegee
"After high school in Henry County, I learned the Tuskegee would offer people jobs. They would give ’em work scholarships, and if you would come to Tuskegee and wan—and you were willing to work, you could just about work your way through…
Helping Grandparents
"Well, Eufaula is on the bluff of the Chattahoochee River, and it’s called “The Bluff City.” It was a small town when I lived there, about 6,000 people, and it was about 50% black and 50% white. My—my father, my grandfather was a janitor at…
Joining the American Rosie the Riveter Association
"Well, I knew about the Riveters all the time when it first started, but I didn't think I'd qualify because it said 'riveters,' but I didn't rivet. I did none of that kind of work.
What I did was not really a…