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  • Lee, James. July 20, 1973
  • Lee, James; Oral history--United States; United States--Oregon--Portland; African Americans--Oregon--Portland
  • SIDE A 0 - 2 minutes: Came to Portland in 1929 from Texas. Family background. He was a railroad worker. 2 - 5 minutes: Black churches in Portland. Black social clubs and organizations. Blacks lived mostly between the river and Broadway. Black...
  • Black Oral History Collection
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  • King, Mr. and Mrs. Randolph. June 7, 1973
  • King, Mr. and Mrs. Randolph; Oral history--United States; African Americans--Idaho--Twin Falls
  • SIDE A 0 - 3 minutes: He came to Twin Falls at the age of 24 from Oklahoma City. Working on the railroad. 3 - 8 minutes: She was born in Memphis, he in Louisiana. They keep up contacts with relatives. No black churches in town. Blacks have lived...
  • 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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  • White, C.A. July 18, 1973
  • White, C.A.; Oral history--United States; African Americans--Oregon - Portland
  • SIDE A; 0 - 3: He came to Portland in 1947 from Texas. He did a lot of odd jobs at first. Family background. 3 - 5: Mt. Olive Baptist Church in Portland. Other black churches. Black social clubs and organizations. 5 - 8: Vanport, a black community...
  • Black Oral History Collection
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  • Monroe, Ethel. April 5, 1974
  • Monroe, Ethel; Oral history--United States; United States--Montana--Missoula; African Americans--Employment--Montana--Missoula; African Americans--Montana--Missoula
  • SIDE A 0 - 4 minutes: Family background. Father from Tennessee. Parents settled in Missoula around 1919 or so. Black churches in Missoula. Not any black clubs. 4 - 7 minutes: Blacks lived all over town. Many owned their own places-- many whites...
  • 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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  • 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...
  • 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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  • 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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  • Cogwell, Mrs. Margaret. September 29, 1972
  • Cogwell, Margaret; Oral history--United States; African Americans--Washington (state)--Olympia; African Americans--Washington (state)--Seattle; African American churches--History; Washington (state)--History--Anecdotes
  • SIDE A; 0 - 5 minutes; She came from Newton, Kansas in 1910. Family background. How she came to Seattle. She ran a little restaurant on Seneca for a couple of years. 5 - 7 minutes: Moved south of Olympia to Rochester in 1919. They raised...
  • Black Oral History Collection
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  • 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...
  • Black Oral History Collection
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  • Frye, Mr. and Mrs. Reginald. August 21, 1972
  • Frye, Mr. & Mrs. Reginald; Oral history--United States; African Americans--Washington (state)--Yakima; African Americans--History--Migrations--20th century; Pioneers--Washington (state); African Americans--Social conditions--20th century
  • SIDE A; 0 - 5 minutes: She talks about how much of her history has been lost. Discussion about blacks who lost their black identities when they came West. 5 - 9 minutes: Blacks in Yakima. Family background. Homesteading. He thinks most blacks came...
  • Black Oral History Collection
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  • King, Frank. April 5, 1973
  • King, Frank; Oral history--United States; African Americans--Idaho--Tensed; African American farmers
  • SIDE A; 0 - 5: Came out west in 1903. They got a homestead in 1910. How they got their homestead. 5 - 8: Real rough the first couple of years. Started with oats and wheat. Custom threshing outfits. How they gradually expanded their area of...
  • Black Oral History Collection
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  • Warren, Charles. June 4, 1973
  • Warren, Charles; Oral history--United States; African Americans--Idaho--Boise; African Americans--Employment
  • SIDE A; 0 - 5: Has lived in Boise since 1958. His feelings about racism and discrimination in the Northwest. A qualified black has always been able to find work. Changes in Boise. 5 - 12: Originally from Arkansas. Family background. Family moved to...
  • Black Oral History Collection
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  • Thomas, Paul. October 21, 1974
  • Thomas, Paul; Bush, George Washington; Oral history--United States; Pioneers--Washington (state)
  • SIDE A; 0 - 5: Sources for his thesis on George Bush, a black pioneer. How he got interested in black history. 5 - 9: Various theories about George Bush and when he came West. The Bush family got along well with the Indians. 9 - 15: Difficulty in...
  • Black Oral History Collection
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  • Stewart, Mrs. Virgil [Bessie]. June 5, 1973
  • Stewart, [Bessie] Mrs. Virgil; Oral history--United States; African Americans--Idaho--Boise
  • SIDE A; 0 - 6: Came to Boise in 1943 from Tennessee. Family background. Story of Wallace Cooky (sp?) , a white contractor who convinced her sister to move out West. 6 - 12: Her brother-in-law was foreman of a ranch in Idaho. Later she and her...
  • Black Oral History Collection
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  • Duncan, Mrs. Armeta. April 4, 1974
  • Duncan, Armeta; Oral history--United States; African Americans--Montana-- Butte; African Americans--Social conditions--20th century; African Americans--Employment--Montana
  • SIDE A; 1 - 4 minutes: Born in Virginia near where Lee surrendered. Story of her aunt being visited by Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant. Family background. 4 - 7 minutes: She traveled from Philadelphia with a couple as a servant in 1905. She...
  • Black Oral History Collection
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  • 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....
  • Black Oral History Collection
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  • Gayton, Virginia. February 5, 1974
  • Gayton, Virginia; Oral history--United States; African Americans--Washington (state)--Seattle; African Americans--Social conditions--20th century
  • SIDE A: 0-5 Family background. Early life, high school in Spokane. Attended Howard University in Washington, D.C. in the early 20's. Father was a railroad worker. How his parents got married. There were no good jobs for her parents who both had...
  • Black Oral History Collection
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  • Coleman, Reverend and Mrs. Sam. December 8, 1972
  • Coleman, Reverend and Mrs. Sam; Oral history--United States; African Americans--Washington (state)--Pasco; African Americans--Washington (state)--Seattle; African Americans--Colorado--Denver; African Americans--Social conditions--20th century;...
  • TAPE 1, SIDE A; 0 - 10: Her family background, From Mississippi and came to Washington in 1916. Her father worked for the railroad. Other blacks in Pasco. Most lived in railroad cars on the east side of town. Then they went to California and...
  • Black Oral History Collection

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