Harris, Neal
Description
Clem Imhoff interviews Neal Harris on March 16, 1976 in Beloit, Wisconsin. The third in a series of three interviews by Imhoff, Harris discusses a sit-down strike at Fairbanks-Morris and his participation in the strike. Other topics discussed include the Black church in Beloit, the Ku Klux Klan in Beloit, and Harris as a republican. This oral history is part of a series of 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.
Sound
Open Reel Tape
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