Transcript
Index
00:00:39 - The Harris family background in Starkville, Mississippi--conditions in Mississippi
00:05:26 - Going to school in Mississippi--working as a young boy, harvesting speckled peas, banking potatoes--the necessity of obeying white people--limitations on black people
00:13:13 - Farming as a young man in Mississippi
00:21:58 - Landlords, good ones and mean ones--dealing with the neighbors, swindlers--Mr. Ware and the bank account--Negroes and mean landlords, treated black people “just like you'd do your children”
00:31:36 - Neal Harris “running to live”--beatings--keeping black people down
00:34:51 - Neal Harris' efforts to get an education--ordered magazines--hand-me-down books in school--limited opportunities
00:44:21 - Work in north Alabama lumber mill--use of guns--fair mill owner, but unequal pay for black workers--life in the lumber camp
00:54:38 - Neal Harris left the lumber camp from fear of a mob--foundry work in Birmingham
01:00:22 - Application for college at Tuskegee, Alabama
01:02:57 - Learning a trade at Tuskegee--meeting with Dr. Robert Moton, the successor to Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee Institute--problems with the chief engineer at Tuskegee--learning the baker's trade, cakes for Dr. Moton--Mr. Owens, the math teacher--the student body
01:17:00 - The importance of color--fair skin preferred--problems with being able to pass
01:25:13 - Neal Harris' reaction to the influence of Booker T. Washington at Tuskegee--training the hands and the mind--lack of professional and skilled jobs for black people in Beloit
01:30:13 - Further comments on the lack of professional and skilled jobs for black people in Beloit--segregated clubs in Beloit
