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Series: John S. Scott, Jr.
: 648 West Delavan Drive, Janesville
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1976 August 24
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Tape/Side
16/1-A
Time
0:00 to 0:25
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Introduction
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Tape/Side
16/1-A
Time
0:26 to 6:40
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Family background--mother born in Illinois, father in Indiana--family lived in Coweta, Oklahoma--father as a drayman and farmer
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Tape/Side
16/1-A
Time
6:41 to 17:15
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Coweta--Scott family one of few with northern background--Scotts as a black family in Coweta, got along with whites and Indians--recollection of Indian pow-wow in June--feasts for the dead--lodges and churches
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Tape/Side
16/1-A
Time
17:16 to 24:56
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Segregated schools in Coweta--county exams, black students graded low--nearest black high schools at Tulsa and Muskogee--Indians attended white schools
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Tape/Side
16/1-A
Time
24:57 to 27:37
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Scotts lost home in Coweta--Dr. Carter
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Tape/Side
16/1-A
Time
27:37 to 29:32
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Family religious background--father offended by church-going hypocrites
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Tape/Side
16/1-B
Time
0:00 to 4:35
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Family political background--parents “working the poll tax”--no voting rights for blacks in Waggoner County, Oklahoma--awareness of voting as power--use of the term “colored”
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Tape/Side
16/1-B
Time
4:36 to 10:26
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Little sense of class--no library in Coweta's black school--throw-away books and crayons--other school problems
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Tape/Side
16/1-B
Time
10:27 to 15:49
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Parents did not compare Coweta with Indiana or Illinois--no reaction against segregation--spiking tops on the playground--J. S. wanted to be a doctor
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Tape/Side
16/1-B
Time
15:50 to 25:08
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J. S. and the railroads, hired by the Pullman Co.--move to Chicago--hitchhiking, driving for drummers--fourteen year-old hobo out of Coweta, left home in Coweta hoping to be able to go to high school, no opportunity available--ranged over the whole country during early Depression years, welcomed back home by father
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Tape/Side
16/1-B
Time
25:09 to 30:14
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Riding the freight trains, living in hobo jungles--the workhouses--dodging the railroad dicks--states to stay out of
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Tape/Side
16/2-A
Time
0:00 to 0:10
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Introduction
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Tape/Side
16/2-A
Time
0:10 to 10:15
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Women in hobo jungles--protection--more on evading railroads dicks--hoboing in cold weather--comment on Grapes of Wrath--J. S. as the “youngest bum”--boarding trains
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Tape/Side
16/2-A
Time
10:16 to 17:06
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Railroad men helped hobos evade railroad dicks--hitching-hiking and riding rails--law enforcement and hobos--help from churches in Chicago--Pilgrim Baptist Church, later when working for Pullman
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Tape/Side
16/2-A
Time
17:07 to 21:42
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Hardships in Chicago, before being hired by Pullman--beginning with Pullman--too much travel with Pullman--then a waiter with the Chicago and Northwestern
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Tape/Side
16/2-A
Time
21:43 to 28:53
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Member of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters--strikebreakers and the grocery store--fights with winos during strikes, J. S. has scar from such a fight--during stockyards strikes
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Tape/Side
16/2-B
Time
0:00 to 2:25
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Comments on Sleeping Car Porters leadership--respect for A. Philip Randolph
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Tape/Side
16/2-B
Time
2:26 to 8:40
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Service on the “Dakota 400” and the “Merry-go-round”--fellow dining car workers--leaving the Chicago and Northwestern in 1948, no more troop trains
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Tape/Side
16/2-B
Time
8:41 to 12:55
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Looking for a home in Wisconsin--problem in Chicago school--need to be home more--fears of Chicago
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Tape/Side
16/2-B
Time
12:56 to 14:56
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Visiting in Janesville--unaware of the absence of blacks--attended First Baptist Church
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Tape/Side
16/2-B
Time
14:57 to 19:37
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Primarily worked on troop trains with the Chicago and Northwestern, the “Challenger” comments on passenger service--late-running passenger trains
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Tape/Side
16/2-B
Time
19:38 to 25:23
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Finding a home in Janesville--getting approval from the “Good Neighborhood Association”--overview of working experience--coal from Hill's Coalyard
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Tape/Side
16/2-B
Time
25:24 to 29:19
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J. S. had to buy a home in Janesville--no rentals to blacks, lost room at Milton Hotel, finally got a room at 104 S. Locust--deal for present home--decided to stay in Janesville after retirement
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1976 September 9
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Tape/Side
20/1-A
Time
0:00 to 0:15
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Introduction
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Tape/Side
20/1-A
Time
0:16 to 5:55
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Decision to move to Janesville--Chicago overcrowded--suggestion from couple on train, gift of money
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Tape/Side
20/1-A
Time
5:56 to 8:32
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More on finding a house in Janesville--visiting Wilson School--few other black families--ability to get along with whites
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Tape/Side
20/1-A
Time
8:33 to 16:15
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Work at Janesville Country Club, low pay--job with Chicago and Northwestern at South Janesville--keeping track clear
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Tape/Side
20/1-A
Time
16:16 to 28:56
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Backgrounds of fellow workers at South Janesville yard--work as a carman, repairing cars--use of American Ass'n of Railroads rulebook--inspection and care of freight cars--flat spots on wheels
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Tape/Side
20/1-B
Time
0:00 to 3:30
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J. S. as member of Brotherhood of Railroad Carmen--comments on fellow workers
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Tape/Side
20/1-B
Time
3:31 to 5:31
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Reason for freight train priority over passenger trains
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Tape/Side
20/1-B
Time
5:32 to 8:17
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No recollection of discrimination from Chicago and Northwestern--acquaintance with manager, Mr. Lightheiser--switchman as desirable job
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Tape/Side
20/1-B
Time
8:18 to 13:30
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Living in Janesville--member of First Baptist Church--wife asked to join choir--J. S. as usher captain--getting acquainted
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Tape/Side
20/1-B
Time
13:31 to 16:06.
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The Scott children and Janesville's schools--story about daughter Sandra--note about African forefathers
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Tape/Side
20/1-B
Time
16:07 to 17:55
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Availability of public facilities
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Tape/Side
20/1-B
Time
17:56 to 24:38
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Discrimination at local tavern, support from a friend--served at Isabel's that night--other minority residents in Janesville, Dr. Nino and the Lopez family
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Tape/Side
20/1-B
Time
24:39 to 26:29
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Other black people in Janesville--George Davis and the city body shop--Ike Williams family--Stud Wilson
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Tape/Side
20/1-B
Time
26:30 to 27:55
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Little contact with Beloit black community until J. S. worked at Beloit Iron Works and joined the Kennedy Lodge
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Tape/Side
20/2-A
Time
0:00 to 0:10
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Introduction
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Tape/Side
20/2-A
Time
0:11 to 3:53
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The Al Beck story, dismissed from GM because of race, Beck did not appeal
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Tape/Side
20/2-A
Time
3:54 to 6:54
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Timing of Al Beck's firing--importance of his fair-skinned appearance--Beck Working at Chrysler today
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Tape/Side
20/2-A
Time
6:55 to 10:15
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J. S. getting a job at GM--assistance from a Mason friend--J. S. once assisted a white Mason
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Tape/Side
20/2-A
Time
10:16 to 17:32
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S. Janesville yard closed down--work in Chicago and Beloit--pay discrimination at Beloit Iron Works, bad treatment there--then work at Clinton, Iowa yard with Chicago and Northwestern
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Tape/Side
20/2-A
Time
17:32 to 21:12
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Then received call from Fisher Auto Body--worked through Paul Meicher in public relations office--Tom Jeffries as personnel director then
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Tape/Side
20/2-A
Time
21:13 to 25:38
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J. S. “knew the score”--allegations of discriminative clause in local union contract--no hard evidence--Elmer Yenney refused J. S. a copy of the contract, prior to J. S.'s hiring by Fisher
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Tape/Side
20/2-A
Time
25:38 to 29:03
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Conversation with Local 95 official, no follow-up--J. S. insulted in conversation with Elmer Yenney, J. S. characterized as “another Paul Robeson”
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Tape/Side
20/2-B
Time
0:00 to 6:40
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Self-restraint in face of insult, spiritual influence--J. S. reluctant to force issue--Yenney died shortly before J. S. was hired--J. S. in Clinton at time of his hiring by Fisher
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Tape/Side
20/2-B
Time
6:41 to 17:46
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“Robeson” comment taken as Communist slur--recollection of meeting Blue Jenkins from Racine, labor leader there--Jenkins took J. S.'s Gazette clippings relative to job discrimination, letters to editor--experience fishing near Fort Atkinson--Jenkins failed to return clippings--Jenkins asked about hiring at GM, several years prior to hiring of J. S., no mention of Beck case
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Tape/Side
20/2-B
Time
17:47 to 21:11
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Nature of J. S.'s work at Fisher--started at straight pay due to proficiency
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Tape/Side
20/2-B
Time
21:12 to 28:12
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Attitudes of fellow workers--new job, steaming headliners--problem of depleted stock at beginning of shift and cut steam hose, harassment--pressure for working early to set up job
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