Rucker, Ollie. July 22, 1972
Rucker, Ollie. July 22, 1972
Rating
Title
Rucker , Ollie . July 22 , 1972
Interview Date
1972-07-22
Length of Interview
33 minutes
Subject
Rucker, Ollie Oral history--United States United States--Washington (state)
Type
Sound
Genre
Interviews
Interview Location
United States--Washington (state)--Yakima
Interviewer
Taylor , Quintard
Abstractor
Knight , Margot H .
Abstract
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 black . Very well integrated area so there was no discrimination . Doesn't remember any trouble between black and white miners . 8 - 15 : How her parents happened to come out to the Northwest . There were a few mixed marriages in Roslyn . Blacks in other areas . Cleone and Barnette . Black families in the Yakima area . Corfu , the black community on the Columbia . 15 - 19 : Talk about other families in Roslyn . The Donaldson family . The Claxton family . 19 - 23 : No problem with discrimination . Schooling . Black miners . Ravensdale , a black mining community in King County . 23 - 26 : Her mother's father , a Scotsman . More about family background . 26 - 27 : Not many political activities that she recalls . 28 - 30 : Black businesses in Spokane . SIDE B (missing) ; 0 - 5 : Negro population in Spokane was very small until World War II . Her family owned an orchard . The decline of the company . 5 - 13 : Early Spokane . More about the decline of the company . What happened to the property after the business was finished . Her uncle's resort . 13 - 19 : Black social clubs . Many blacks owned their own property . Ideas about black stereotypes . Black intellectuals in the community . 19 - 26 : Activities for blacks in town . Her father's activities after the orchard business was finished . Her father's early life . The Quality Printing Company . 26 - 30 : She shows some photographs of family and friends and talks about them.
Abstract Date
1979-06-13
Identifier
ct02t39rucker
Collection
Is found in CT 2 , Black Oral History Interviews , 1972-1974 https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/ct2.htm at Washington State University Libraries ' Manuscripts , Archives , and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc
Language
English
Digitization
Interview cassette tapes were digitized in 2002 as mp3 files , and uploaded in CONTENTdm .
Rights Notes
In copyright. As no permission forms were signed, rights for this interview remain both with the interviewees and Washington State University (as the interviewer conducted them as part of their WSU employment).
Publisher
Manuscripts , Archives , and Special Collections , Washington State University Libraries : https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc
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