UAB library presents snapshot into life on an iron plantation

Oral histories of life in a Birmingham landmark will be presented Jan. 26.

Hear fascinating oral histories of life for black workers living in the Sloss Furnaces company housing during the 1900s. The stories are from the “Like it Ain't Never Passed” monograph and will be presented by the Friends of UAB Sterne Library at 4 p.m. Jan. 26, 2012 in the Mervyn Sterne Library Seminar Room 174, 917 13th Street South.

Karen Utz, curator for the Sloss Furnaces National Historic Landmark and adjunct history instructor at UAB, is the guest speaker. This free, public event is part of UAB Community Week and is an Alabama Humanities Foundation sponsored Road Scholars Presentation.