World History Oral History Project- Sean Cousins (interviewing Rick D. Cleland)

My grandfather is a man of few but powerful words. Especially with his diminishing health this is an excellent opportunity to talk to him and learn even the smallest details about him.

Steven Akins, Dolphus Putman, , , and

1993 interview of Dolphus Lawrence Putman, the son of an Alabama coal miner who was killed in a mining accident in 1927, relating to his growing up as one of 8 children being raised by a single mother during the...