David Swett, Owner, Swett’s Restaurant. Nashville, Tennessee.

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America Works

Library of Congress

25 episodes

5 months ago

Features the voices of contemporary workers from throughout the United States talking about their lives, their workplaces, and their on-the-job experiences. Drawn from hundreds of longer oral history interviews collected by fieldworkers for the American Folklife Center's Occupational Folklife Project (OFP), America Works is a testament to the wisdom, wit, knowledge, and dedication of today's working Americans. These engaging oral histories, which have are preserved in the American Folklife Center's archive, are enriching and expanding America's historical record.

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David Swett, Owner, Swett’s Restaurant. Nashville, Tennessee.

America Works

6 minutes 9 seconds

1 year ago

David Swett, Owner, Swett’s Restaurant. Nashville, Tennessee.

David Swett, the owner of Swett’s Restaurant, a family-owned establishment and culinary landmark in Nashville, Tennessee since 1954, talks with documentarian Candacy Taylor about running an African American family business, working in the food industry and his pride in Swett’s history as part of her larger project “The Green Book: Documenting African American Entrepreneurs.”