Working in Paterson

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Working in Paterson

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Item Title

"I think it's time for me to retire, I can go no further."

Author/Creator

Interviewer: Levitas, Susan, 1961-

Created/Published

August 19, 1994

Notes

Interview with Leonard Jones, urban gardener, hardware store worker, motorcycle club member.
Summary of audio segment: After fourteen years at the wire plant, they brought in a man and told me to break him as the foreman and I said after it took me all these years, you want me to train him to tell me? So, I retired. No matter what I did, I could go no further. That was 1967; thought maybe since he was black he wouldn't qualify. "I decided to keep my knowledge with me." If they weren't going to drain my knowledge to control me that would be different; it's like showing the enemy how he can catch you. I got tired of working seven days a week anyway. "I gave them the best years of my life, that's why I felt hurt."

Subjects

African Americans
Interviews
Oral history
Sound recordings
Ethnography
Interviews
United States--New Jersey--Paterson

Object Type

sound recording-nonmusical

Related Names

Narrator: Jones, Leonard

Medium

Digital Audio Tape

Language

English

Call Number

AFC 1995/028: WIP-SL-A017; A: 34:35

Reproduction Number

AFC 1995/028: WIP-SL-A017

Part of

Working in Paterson Folklife Project

Repository

Library of Congress, Archive of Folk Culture, American Folklife Center, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital ID

afcwip sla01707
http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.afc/afcwip.sla01707