Interview with Walter Ingram, October 26, 1976, Beloit, Wisconsin
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Ingram, Walter
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Clem Imhoff interviews Walter Ingram on October 26, 1976 in Racine, Wisconsin. The second of two interviews with Imhoff, Ingram discusses Black businesses in Beloit, Wisconsin, his decision to quit recruiting after seeing a Memphis lynch mob, and his decision to leave Beloit for Racine. Ingram also discusses his work at Walker in Racine and development of a union at Walker. 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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