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Interview with Ben Gordon, April 29, 1976, Beloit, Wisconsin

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Gordon, Ben

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Clem Imhoff interviews Ben Gordon on April 29, 1976 in Beloit, Wisconsin. The first of a series of three interviews with Imhoff, Gordon discusses his family background in Mississippi, feelings about leaving Mississippi in 1921, and his early school experiences in Beloit. 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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