Oral History

Minister Robert Campbell - Slinging bricks (clip)

Interviewed by George Barrett and Kathryn Wall on October 28, 2022

Robert Campbell: Going back to constructing some of the houses. Uncle Leo and Uncle Handy and Uncle Bill taught us how to sling bricks.

George Barrett: Ok.

RC: Sling bricks. Sometimes you could take a flat board, almost like a paddle, you could throw the bricks up and somebody could catch them and stack them. It was a lot easier doing that than trying to carry five or six bricks up a ladder. You could take it and put it on one stack of scaffolding, and then you had to transfer them up to the other. It was easy to be able to throw them up to whatever level you were going to. We learned how to do that.

Minister Robert Campbell - Slinging bricks (clip)

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Oral history interview of Campbell, Robert conducted by Barrett, George on October 28, 2022 at RENA Community Center, Chapel Hill, NC.

Citation: Marian Cheek Jackson Center, “Minister Robert Campbell - Slinging bricks (clip),” From the Rock Wall, accessed November 23, 2024, https://fromtherockwall.org/oral-histories/minister-robert-campbell-slinging-bricks.

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