Interview with Charles Simmons, April 21, 1976, Beloit, Wisconsin
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Simmons, Charles
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Clem Imhoff interviews Charles Simmons on April 21, 1976 in Beloit, Wisconsin. The third of three interviews with Imhoff, Simmons discusses the Kennedy Masonic Lodge, Emmanuel Baptist Church, the Chicago riot of 1919, and having dark skin vs. light skin. Simmons also discusses the Ku Klux Klan, his membership in the Kiwanis, and health care problems for Blacks. 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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