Interview with Rev. D. W. Johnson, May 19, 1976, Beloit, Wisconsin
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Johnson, D. W
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Clem Imhoff interviews Rev. D. W. Johnson on May 19, 1976 in Beloit, Wisconsin. The third in a series of three interviews by Imhoff, Johnson discusses his mother's use of the bible in raising him and his religious beliefs. Johnson also discusses recruiting, his work on the railroad, and his experience in a tornado. 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.
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- African Americans
- Beloit
- Church And Minorities
- Clergy
- Employees
- Office
- Oral Histories (Document Genre)
- Railroads
- Recruiting
- Wisconsin