Harris, Neal
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Clem Imhoff interviews Neal Harris on March 12, 1976 in Beloit, Wisconsin. The second in a series of three interviews by Imhoff, Harris discusses his recruitment by J.D. Stephenson for work at Fairbanks-Morse as well as his impressions of J.D. Stephenson. Harris also discusses segregation at the Beloit YMCA, difficulties in organizing against segregation, the organization of Steelworkers local at Fairbanks-Morris, the CIO policy of non-discrimination, and his service as union shop steward. 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 loc
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