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Albert krris, July 23, 1985, Taylorville, Illinois.
Kevin Corley , Intewie~r
Q: Mr. mrris, wld you please state your £dl -2
A: Albert H. lbrris.
Q: &tts the "H" stand for
.
Q: b t
was the time and place of your birth
A: 1 ws born on July the second, 1911 in bhakinock, Iowa.
Q: All right.
A: After that coal camp was closed dawn, the mine closed there, we awed
to Fluxton, Iowa.
Q: Okay.
A: B-U-X-T-0-N, Buxton, Iowa.
Q: How old =re ycu tjnen you wed to Eluxton
A: I was about, I wuld say, six years old.
Q: h t
do you r m e r about Whakinock
A: I don' t ranember anything about Whakinock but I do Wucton, Iowa
because there ms a dmle lnmch of mines a r d there and there ms about
10,000 population. I wuld say about 90 percent of them were colored
people. Old rran Euxton, he imported them from dom south and everythhg
for those coal mines. They wrked in those coal mines all those a r d
there. At one time it was dangerous to be down there, samebody ws
getting killed every night dawn there. (laughter)
Q: my did he import them, cheaper labor or . . .
A: Yes, that ws it. They had a carrpany store there, that was the old
tim. With the campany store there, they didn't get any mney. I can
r d r later when my dad wrked rq+t with them. They Ere all good
woxkrs ad everything. My dad said they =re good people, but he said
they just didn' t get nothing. He said he felt sorry for them a lot of
t h s . One time there one of those colored he ws wrking with, he said