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Beloit Bicentennial Oral History Project Interviews 1976
- Beloit Bicentennial Oral History Project
Audio 637A
24 tape recordings
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
Tape-recorded interviews conducted in 1976 by Clem Imhoff for the Beloit
Bicentennial Commission with black and white residents of Beloit, Wisconsin, concerning
migration of blacks to the city from Kentucky and Mississippi after World War I and their
lives before and after the move. Included in the interviews are references to employment and
labor problems at Fairbanks-Morse, education, churches, the Women's Community Club, Beloit
College, and the local chapter of the NAACP. The 15 interviewees include Sadie Bell, Rubie
Bond, David Fifield, Ambrose Gordon, Ben Gordon, Lorenzo Grady, Anne and Neal Harris, Walter
Ingram, Robert Irrman, D.W. Johnson, Ocie Peterson, Charles Simmons, Georgette Smith, and
Raymond Wright. English
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