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Tape/Side/Part
6/1/1
Time
0:00
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Introduction
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Tape/Side/Part
6/1/1
Time
0:19
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Family background in Kentucky--grandfather as a carpenter in
Louisville--family came to Beloit before the Mississippi migration
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Tape/Side/Part
6/1/1
Time
5:29
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Charles Simmons work as a guide at Fairbanks-Morse--recollection of John
McCord as a recruiter in Mississippi for F-M--problems at F-M holding work
force--Walter Ingram as a recruiter--poor whites followed black migrants from
Mississippi
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Tape/Side/Part
6/1/1
Time
11:14
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Further comments on John McCord-the “Potato,” Mississippi
story--Cliff White and the exhaust fan
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Tape/Side/Part
6/1/1
Time
15:54
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John McCord's job responsibilities--problems at F-M with workers from
Chicago--McCord and Eugene Burlingame, F-M personnel manager
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Tape/Side/Part
6/1/1
Time
20:25
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McCord's recruiting tactics--potential workers told about additional
freedoms in Beloit--McCord recruited for a brief time because of fear, quit because
of danger
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Tape/Side/Part
6/1/1
Time
26:06
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Walter Ingram as a recruiter--better at “maneuvering” than
McCord
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Tape/Side/Part
6/1/1
Time
28:37
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Reaction to terms, “black” as a fighting word
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Tape/Side/Part
6/1/2
Time
0:00
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Further comments on Walter Ingram--Ingram family--Walter currently a
minister in Racine--migrants to Beloit as less established in
Mississippi
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Tape/Side/Part
6/1/2
Time
5:01
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Most of their contemporaries as moved away or dead--comments on Zach
White
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Tape/Side/Part
6/1/2
Time
6:50
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Recording break
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Tape/Side/Part
6/1/2
Time
10:26
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Further comments on life in Louisville--living near the Ohio River--race
relations in Louisville--story about grandmother's white half-brother
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Tape/Side/Part
6/1/2
Time
20:02
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Grandparents coming to Beloit--Charles Simmons' first impressions of
Beloit--interim in St. Louis, “too congested”--little recreation in
Beloit, played with white children--problem in court
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Tape/Side/Part
6/1/2
Time
27:43
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Comments on Leon Petersib
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Tape/Side/Part
6/2/1
Time
0:00
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Introduction
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Tape/Side/Part
6/2/1
Time
0:11
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Robert Mayo, Charles' stepfather, as a 20th Century Club member at
Fairbanks-Morse--Robert Mayo's religious background--fair treatment at
F-M
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Tape/Side/Part
6/2/1
Time
7:16
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Mr. Taylor and safety at F-M--Charles Simmons' work at F-M--at the
Foremen's Club as a young office worker--reaction against foundry work--absence of
discrimination in work experience--pay scale
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Tape/Side/Part
6/2/1
Time
20:57
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Charles Simmons attitude toward younger generation
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Tape/Side/Part
6/2/1
Time
23:57
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Recollections of first migrants from Mississippi--language differences
between Charles Simmons and the migrants from Mississippi
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Tape/Side/Part
6/2/2
Time
0:00
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Different customs of the Mississippi migrants--migrants prejudiced against
light-complected Negroes
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Tape/Side/Part
6/2/2
Time
5:56
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Mrs. Simmons from Indianola, Mississippi--relatives wanted to return to
Mississippi, but not Charles Simmons--negative reaction to Mississippi from earlier
trip--reaction against blacks in Mississippi using “nigger” in
conversation
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Tape/Side/Part
6/2/2
Time
15:06
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Further comments on customs, F-M story
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Tape/Side/Part
6/2/2
Time
17:30
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Reactions of white people to migrants--sweaty workers on the
streetcar
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Tape/Side/Part
6/2/2
Time
22:16
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J.D. Stephenson's influence, also Reverend Brown and Leon
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overboard”--problem of getting used to factory work--movement to other
cities
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