Transcript
Index
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:00:20 - Beloit black people and the post-World War I recession--movement of black people out of Beloit at that time
00:06:45 - Leaders of Beloit's black community--J.D. Stephenson--Alva Curtis, engineer at Fairbanks-Morse
00:08:51 - The organization of the W.B. Kennedy lodge of the Masonic order--acceptance of segregated lodges--“separate families” analogy
00:21:17 - Charles Simmons' reasons for joining the Kennedy lodge--the importance of brotherly love and charity--the lodge as a male organization--examples of charitable aid
00:27:26 - More on black community leaders--Alva Curtis--Reverend W.E.W. Brown
00:28:23 - Original location of Emmanuel Baptist Church, move to present location--Rev. Brown and the athletic club
00:32:10 - W.S. Williams and politics at the barber shop--black people and the railroad tracks--barber shop as a center of political discussion
00:43:45 - Recollection of the Chicago Riot of 1919--opposition to violence
00:47:50 - Migration from Mississippi--blacks and the Daily News--prefers racial separation
00:54:47 - More recollections of the migrants from Mississippi--using the interurban
01:02:19 - Introduction of second part
01:02:34 - Charles Simmons and the church--change from Baptist to Methodist--influence of older sister, Emma Thomas from Cleveland--differences between churches in Louisville and Beloit--the church and the black community
01:10:17 - Ku Klux Klan cross burning at the Mayo home--reaction of Mrs. Mayo--NAACP protest to Governor Blaine and the resulting proclamation
01:14:47 - Membership in the Kiwanis for Charles Simmons
01:19:55 - Charles Simmons and fear--snakes--police and jail
01:23:49 - Awareness of dark vs. fair skin--related incident involving baseball team at Harvard, Ill.--incident on street crew
01:34:00 - Health care problems for blacks in Beloit--role of schools in health care--black hospital in Louisville, not in Beloit--black doctors and dentist in Beloit--flu epidemic of 1918--black doctors and Beloit's hospital
01:45:50 - Problem of young black people leaving Beloit--conclusion