Harris, Anne
Description
Clem Imhoff interviews Anne Harris on March 19, 1976 in Beloit, Wisconsin. Harris discusses her family background in Mississippi, their move to Beloit, and compares her experience at school in Mississippi and in Beloit. Harris also tells of discrimination in Beloit, and of the Women's Community Club and their involvement in civil rights activities. Other topics discussed include domestic work in Beloit, the organization of the Women's Culture Club, her marriage to Neal Harris, and family reunions. 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
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Open Reel Tape
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