Bus drivers

Parent and school bus driver remembers the first months of busing in Jefferson County.

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.