Sloan, Louise Russell

Date:
1998-10-12
Length:
120 minutes
Interviewer:
Campisano, Deborah
Transcription available:
no
Series:
General collection
Series ID:
0000-000
Interview Number(s):
2015_70_1
2015_70_2
Summary:
Louise Russell Sloan talks about her life experiences growing up near Okolona, a rural neighborhood in Jefferson County, Kentucky during the first quarter of the twentieth century. She talks about African American property owners in the Cooper Chapel Road area and how peoples lives centered around family, farm, neighbors, and church. Mrs. Sloan later had a seventeen-year career as a school bus driver.
Topic(s):
African Americans--Kentucky--Louisville, Okolona (Louisville, Ky.), Farm life, Bus drivers