Our Gathering Places Oral History Project: Interview with Art Rinehart

Titles: Our Gathering Places Oral History Project: Interview with Art Rinehart (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Art Rinehart was born and educated in West Virginia. He worked as a barber in his own shop for about forty years. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Difficulties of getting barber's license. Changing men's hair styles. Various black barbers. Moving from West Virginia to Minnesota. Type of clientele. Segregation. Changes in the Rondo area. Ministers and community leaders. Maxfield School relocation. His haircuts by father. Barbershop talk when children present. Philosophy of respect. Different hairstyles. Why and how he came to be a barber. Mentoring. Personal reflections.

Dates

• 09/08/1997 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Rinehart, Art
• interviewer: Taylor, David Vassar

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 100
• Accession Number: AV2003.65.14

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Our Gathering Places Oral History Project' <OH 100>

Quantity: 1 hour sound cassette 9 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 00:41:41 running time

Subjects

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