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  • DeWittig, Mrs. Thelma. January 18, 1973
  • DeWittig, Thelma; Oral history--United States; African Americans--Washington (state)--Seattle; African Americans--Education; African American teachers
  • SIDE A; 0 - 4: She came to Seattle from Texas in 1947 to do graduate work at University of Washington. She was an only child. Schooling in Texas. Family background. Talks about her teaching in Texas. 4 - 7: The black church in Seattle. Communists...
  • Black Oral History Collection
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  • Thompson, Bertie Neoma. June 8, 1973
  • Thompson, Bertie Neoma; Oral history--United States; African Americans--Idaho--Pocatello; African Americans--Social conditions--20th century
  • SIDE A; 0 - 4: Came to Pocatello in 1919. Originally from Missouri. Travelled around with her husband, a rodeo rider. Courtship and marriage. 4 - 5: More about her husbad's love to ride horses. Killed in Bozeman in 1939 while riding. 5 - 10: Black...
  • Black Oral History Collection
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  • Dunning, Verron. August 24, 1972
  • Dunning, Verron; Oral history--United States; African Americans; Pioneers--Washington (state); Washington (state)--History--Anecdotes
  • SIDE A; 0 - 3 minutes: Talks about George Washington, a local pioneer. He was raised by a black woman in Michigan. Other blacks in Centralia; Stacy Kunos. 3 - 5 minutes: Talks about William Bryan and his wife who were early pioneers. Other blacks...
  • Black Oral History Collection
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  • Bogle, Kathelyn. September 10, 1974
  • Bogle, Kathelyn; Bogle, Richard W.; African Americans--Oregon--Portland; Oral History--United States; Pioneers--Oregon
  • TAPE 1, SIDE B; 0 - 5 minutes: She tells the story of her husband's grandfather Richard W. Bogle who came to the Northwest in 1835 or so. Ran away from Jamaica at age twelve to New York. Wagon train West. Story of the Waldo family. 5 - 6 minutes:...
  • Black Oral History Collection
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  • Freeman, Lawrence. June 12, 1974
  • Freeman, Lawrence; Oral history--United States; African Americans--Washington (state)--Clarkston; African Americans--Montana; Pioneers--Washington (state)
  • TAPE 1, SIDE A: 0-4 Has lived in Clarkston since 1919. Family background. How his parents met and moved to Montana. His father worked with horses. 4-9 There were never many blacks in Montana. Talks about the ranch his family lived on in Montana....
  • Black Oral History Collection
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  • Flowers sisters, Mabel and Myrtle, September, 1974
  • Flowers, Mabel; Flowers, Myrtle; Oral history--United States; African Americans--Oregon--Portland
  • SIDE A; 0 - 4: Interview with an older woman about going to Jamaica for sugarcane. Talks about her mother and her marriage to a Portuguese man who was killed. 4 - 10: Her father owned an oyster house in Astoria. His name was Roscoe Lee Dixon....
  • Black Oral History Collection

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