Peterson, Ocie
Description
Clem Imhoff interviews Ocie Peterson on April 9, 1976 in Beloit, Wisconsin. Peterson discusses her Family background in Wickliffe, Kentucky (near Cairo, Illinois), her marriage to Leon Peterson, and her American Indian and white ancestry. Peterson also tells of her recollections of Cairo, her father as a railroad worker, her husband's background and work with Wisconsin Power and Light and his involvement with NAACP. Other topics include the relationship between NAACP and the Black churches, and white membership in NAACP. 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 Cl
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