LIST OF ORAL HISTORIES RESOURCES
ATLANTA UNDERSIDE
• Kate McTell talks about a numbers man who was killed while riding a motorcycle due to being chased by a police officer. Men on motorcycles were seen as a menace, doing degenerate behavior or running numbers. If a woman was on the back of the motorcycle, they were assumed not to be part of the underground community. By the 1940s, people were going to jail for running numbers. • The liquor trade was big money; there were hiding spots and stash spots all over the city once the site would be putting liquor stills in the water.
DOMESTIC WORKERS
INTERVIEW WITH WILLIE MAE JACKSON, COOK, AND DOROTHY BOLDEN, MAID. During this era, most Black women worked as domestics; for $1.50/ week or $0.50/ day, a family could hire help. Typically, the worker would be present all day, 7 am to 7 pm, on most days and work half days on Sundays and Thursdays, 7 am till 1 or 3 pm. Churches began to hold evening services on Sundays to accommodate church attendance by Black women. A typical working-class White family had the following workers: chauffeur, yard man, butler, maid, laundry, and cook because the pay of Black workers was so low.
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