Interviewer
Barbara Steinke
Files
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Description
This interview is one of series conducted concerning the Oral History of Appalachia. Jeff E. Thomas discusses: his personal history; his family (some of whom worked in coal mines, which he discusses in great detail); his education (including at West Virginia Tech); segregation; church and religion; labor unions and strikes; his childhood and childhood activities; vacations (including camping trips); his dad forming a non-union mining coal company; wanting to be a funeral director and his job in the B.C. Hooper Funeral Home and other funeral homes; his Appalachian identity as well as Appalachian culture and Appalachian stereotypes; and other topics.
Publication Date
1999
Identifier
OH64-625
Type
Text
Comments
Interview is included in the Marshall University Oral History Collection. The index number is OH64-625.
Rights
Educational use only, no other permissions given. Copyright to this resource is held by the content creator, author, artist or other entity, and is provided here for educational purposes only. It may not be reproduced or distributed in any format without written permission of the copyright owner.
Recommended Citation
Marshall University Special Collections, OH64-625, Huntington, WV.
Library of Congress Subjects
Thomas, Jeff E., 1958- -- Autobiography.
B.C. Hooper Funeral Home -- Oral histories.
Coal mines and mining -- West Virginia -- Oral histories.
West Virginia Institute of Technology -- Oral histories.
4-H clubs -- West Virginia -- Oral histories.