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    • Rucker, Ollie. July 22, 1972

    • Rucker, Ollie; Oral history--United States; United States--Washington (state)
    • SIDE A; 0 - 3: Family background. Father came to Roslyn as strike-breaker from Virginia. Later moved to mining area in Franklin in King County. Black social clubs. 3 - 8: Doesn't remember any black politicians. Jim Shepardston, an influential...
    • James, Mr. and Mrs. Franklin. September 26, 1972

    • James, Mr. and Mrs. Franklin; Oral history--United States; African Americans--Washington (state)--Yakima; African Americans--Employment--Washington (state); African Americans--Social conditions--20th century
    • SIDE A; 0 - 4: Father worked for railroad in Virginia. Came to Washington in 1898. Family background. Father's stories about a Confederate soldier. 4 - 9: Education for blacks. His first job as a coal miner. Strikes. He worked in the mines from...
    • 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....
    • Duncan, Dr. Walter. April 3, 1974

    • Duncan, Dr. Walter; Oral history--United States; African Americans--Montana--Butte; African Americans--Social conditions--20th century
    • SIDE A 0 - 5 minutes: Family background. How his parents came to Butte. His father was a podiatrist. 5 - 7 minutes: Two black churches in Butte until 1928 when many blacks moved away from Butte. 7 - 10 minutes: Black Mason organization. Other black...
    • Buckner, Mr. and Mrs. Claude. June 5, 1973

    • Buckner, Mr. and Mrs. Claude; Oral History--United States; African Americans--Idaho--Boise; Churches--Idaho; African Americans--Employment; Family
    • SIDE A; 0 - 5 minutes: She has been in Boise since 1909. Born in Pueblo, Colorado. He came to Idaho in 1923. Family backgrounds. How his family came out west from Missouri. 5 - 11 minutes: How her folks came out west from Georgia and Tennessee. Her...
    • Chase, Mr. and Mrs. James. November 2, 1972

    • Chase, Mr. and Mrs. James; Oral history--United States; African Americans--Washington (State)--Spokane; African Americans--Employment; African Americans--Social conditions--20th century
    • SIDE A; 0 - 7 minutes: Family background--her father came from Mississippi to Spokane in 1890. He worked as a printer. Her uncle printed The Citizen. Her grandfather established the Calvary Baptist Church in Spokane. Several of her relatives were...
    • Moss, Sandy. December 2, 1972

    • Moss, Sandy; Oral history--United States; African Americans--Washington (state)--Seattle; African Americans--Social conditions--20th century
    • SIDE A: 0-4 His father was a stonemason who came to Seattle from Kansas. They were originally from North Carolina. Black churches. 4-7 Holiday celebrations shared by whites and blacks in the early 1900's. Blacks more or less lived alongside whites....

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