| Title: |
Buster Williams
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| Document type: |
Oral history
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| Accessibility: |
Free Only
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| Repository: |
City of Alexandria, Virginia. Historic Alexandria
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| Collection: |
Historic Alexandria Oral History Collection
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| Description: |
Charles K. (Buster) Williams was born in Alexandria in 1908 and has lived here all his life. He attended elementary school at St. Josephs and Parker Gray, then went to high school in Washington D.C. because there were no secondary schools in the city for African Americans at that time. Some of the jobs that he talks about are hauling ice on an ice cart, boot black at a local barber shop, truck driver and delivery person for Virginia Public Service, working at the White House, and barnstorming as a semi-pro baseball player. He has fond memories of growing up in a small city as a child.
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| URL: |
http://oha.ci.alexandria.va.us/oha-main/oralhistory/oha-busterwilliams.html
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| Original Language: |
English
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| Time span: |
Not indicated ... to 1999 (Year of interview)
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| Speaker: |
Williams, Charles K. (Buster), 1908-
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| Speaker gender: |
Male
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| Speaker date of birth: |
1908
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| Speaker place of birth: |
Alexandria, VA; Virginia; United States; North America
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| Speaker race: |
American Indian
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| Speaker occupation: |
Transportation worker
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| Age at speaking: |
91
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| Document location: |
Alexandria, VA
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| Document date: |
05-Feb-1999
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| Interviewer: |
Weinschenk, Mitch
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| Locations discussed: |
Alexandria, VA; North America; United States; Virginia
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| Topics discussed - ASP terms: |
Alexandria (Va.)--History; Alexandria, VA; Local history; North America; Old Town (Alexandria, Va.)--History; Oral history; United States; Virginia
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| ASP release: |
2005-06
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| Document code: |
OHI0029174-32258
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