Interview with Charles Simmons, March 31, 1976, Beloit, Wisconsin
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Simmons, Charles
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Clem Imhoff interviews Charles Simmons on March 31, 1976 in Beloit, Wisconsin. The first of three interviews with Imhoff, Simmons discusses his family background in Kentucky and their move to Beloit before the Mississippi migration. Simmons also discusses work at Fairbanks-Morse, recruiters John McCord and Walter Ingram, and race relations while living in Louisville. 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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