Bond, Rubie
Description
Clem Imhoff interviews Rubie Bond on March 17, 1976 in Beloit, Wisconsin. The final interview in a series of four interviews with Imhoff, Bond discusses Black churches in Beloit and her conversion to Catholicism. Other topics discussed include housing patterns in Beloit and the Human Rights Council in the 1950s. 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.
Sound
Open Reel Tape
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