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Tape/Side/Part
17/1/1
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0:00
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Introduction
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Tape/Side/Part
17/1/1
Time
0:26
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Gordon family backround near Houston, Mississippi--grandparents from
Africa, settled at Ross Hill
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Tape/Side/Part
17/1/1
Time
3:47
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Backgrounds of parents--schoolteachers--the Ross Hill community
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Tape/Side/Part
17/1/1
Time
7:18
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Parents' training as teachers--father Grant Gordon remembered as a teacher
by other Beloiters
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Tape/Side/Part
17/1/1
Time
11:19
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Influence of the church in Mississippi--inability of parents to teach in
Beloit
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Tape/Side/Part
17/1/1
Time
13:48
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Interracial relations in Houston--denial of political rights in
Mississippi--father's voter registration activities in Houston, resulting problems
caused him to leave--Bible as key influence
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Tape/Side/Part
17/1/1
Time
23:14
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Reasons for moving to Beloit--availability of work in Beloit--mother
supported decision to move--further comments on father's efforts to continue
teaching in Beloit, no opportunities--A.G.'s sister became a teacher in
Milwaukee
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Tape/Side/Part
17/1/1
Time
28:37
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Early reactions to Beloit--first family in the Edgewater
Apartments--housing differences between whites and blacks in Beloit
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Tape/Side/Part
17/1/2
Time
0:00
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Father's work as a scalesman at Fairbanks-Morse--desire for better
work--father left F-M to become a teamster hauling ashes and dirt--father Grant
Gordon continued political activities in Beloit-- discouraged by employers--friends
in the white community
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Tape/Side/Part
17/1/2
Time
8:51
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Further comments on father's work at Fairbanks-Morse, need to visit end
politic--father and J.D. Stephenson--father's reading habits, Crisis and Chicago
Defender
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Tape/Side/Part
17/1/2
Time
13:47
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Ambrose Gordon's attitudes toward W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T.
Washington--A.G.'s sister, Louise, as a student of Dubois--Dubois as a
teacher
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Tape/Side/Part
17/1/2
Time
20:53
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Father's attitudes toward wealth and poverty--relationships with white
workers at Fairbanks-Morse
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Tape/Side/Part
17/1/2
Time
23:29
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Block churches in Beloit--father helped organize Emmanuel
Baptist--differences between churches in Beloit and Mississinpi--differerences
between ministers--contrast between Rev. Barksdale and Rev. W.E.W. Brown
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Tape/Side/Part
17/2/1
Time
0:00
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Introduction
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Tape/Side/Part
17/2/1
Time
0:11
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Story about Rev. Barksdale's son--Rev. Barksdale's humility
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Tape/Side/Part
17/2/1
Time
1:56
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Criticism of the personal style of ministry--A.G.'s style of worship--sense
of religious superiority in black churches
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Tape/Side/Part
17/2/1
Time
7:25
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Differences between religious practice in Beloit and
Mississippi--worldliness
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Tape/Side/Part
17/2/1
Time
8:46
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Recollections of family farm--farm as a truck garden
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Tape/Side/Part
17/2/1
Time
13:02
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Recollection of elementary school--Riverview school=-name calling and
fighting--color generally “not that big an issue”--intervention by
teachers
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Tape/Side/Part
17/2/1
Time
20:13
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Ambrose Gordon's children in school--serious problem for youngest
daughter
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Tape/Side/Part
17/2/1
Time
26:00
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Further comments on A.G.'s elementary school--good teachers--recalls Frank
Turman, the marble champion
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Tape/Side/Part
17/2/2
Time
0:00
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Gordons purchase farm, help from brother Jim
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Tape/Side/Part
17/2/2
Time
2:21
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Influence of church on A.G. as a youth--awareness of hypocrisy--decision to
join church, baptism in Rock River--Rev. Dillon of New Zion
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Tape/Side/Part
17/2/2
Time
16:56
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Further comments on religious faith
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Tape/Side/Part
17/2/2
Time
24:10
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The “double-minded person”--car accident at sixteen--miraculous
recovery from cancer
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