Ingram, Earl, Jr

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Robert Smith interviews Earl Ingram, Jr. Ingram discusses discrimination in schools and during his time working at A.O. Smith, and he discusses the closing of the plant. Ingram also compares the civil rights movements in the North and South.This interview is part of an oral history series done of Milwaukee residents on the effects of Milwaukee plant closings on the city's African-American community since 1970. The Wisconsin Historical Society, in collaboration with the Wisconsin Black Historical Society & Museum, sponsored an oral history project that ran June-August, 2015. Four Milwaukee high school and college students were trained in oral history techniques by UW-Milwaukee professors Michael Gordon and Rob Smith and then interviewed black residents who had first-hand knowledge of these events. In the interviews, students asked about four broad areas: 1) family history; 2) education; 3) work history; 4) and the plant closings and their consequences. Interviews took place at t

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Wisconsin Historical Society

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Recollection Wisconsin