Transcript
Index
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:00:28 - Family background in Kentucky--grandfather as a carpenter in Louisville--family came to Beloit before the Mississippi migration
00:05:26 - Charles Simmons work as a guide at Fairbanks-Morse--recollection of John McCord as a recruiter in Mississippi for F-M--problems at F-M holding work force--Walter Ingram as a recruiter--poor whites followed black migrants from Mississippi
00:11:21 - Further comments on John McCord-the “Potato,” Mississippi story--Cliff White and the exhaust fan
00:16:17 - John McCord's job responsibilities--problems at F-M with workers from Chicago--McCord and Eugene Burlingame, F-M personnel manager
00:20:51 - McCord's recruiting tactics--potential workers told about additional freedoms in Beloit--McCord recruited for a brief time because of fear, quit because of danger
00:26:39 - Walter Ingram as a recruiter--better at “maneuvering” than McCord
00:28:45 - Reaction to terms, “black” as a fighting word
00:30:14 - Further comments on Walter Ingram--Ingram family--Walter currently a minister in Racine--migrants to Beloit as less established in Mississippi
00:35:11 - Most of their contemporaries as moved away or dead--comments on Zach White
00:37:06 - Recording break
00:37:25 - Comments on St. Louis--further comments on life in Louisville--living near the Ohio River--race relations in Louisville--story about grandmother's white half-brother
00:47:17 - Grandparents coming to Beloit--Charles Simmons' first impressions of Beloit--interim in St. Louis, “too congested”--little recreation in Beloit, played with white children--problem in court
00:55:34 - Comments on Leon Peterson
