Transcript
Index
00:00:00 - Introduction
00:00:34 - Recollection of high school, South Beloit High--athletes--relationships with Italo-American students
00:03:21 - High school teachers--exclusion from experimental classes at Beloit College, Burr Training School
00:08:41 - Need to absorb disappointment--A.G. as a black athlete playing in rural towns--exclusion from Hi-Y
00:15:26 - Skipping school to work in circus, excluded from horse show, circus from South--recollections of friends
00:19:01 - Track records at South Beloit High, mile under five minutes
00:20:29 - Work at Walsh Bros. Farm--fair treatment--dust from threshing and grain bins
00:24:58 - Positive attitude toward work at Walsh Bros.--migrant workers at Walsh Bros
00:30:14 - Further comments on farm work
00:34:02 - Work at Fairbanks-Morse as a shakeout laborer
00:36:04 - Fellow workers--taking advantage of a greenhorn--Jim Givhan, crane operator--black workers confined to certain jobs, low horizons
00:44:43 - A.G. laid off at F-M--work on WPA project, crushing limestone
00:46:04 - Worked for father as a teamster
00:47:11 - Recollection of Beloit NAACP--local leaders
00:50:26 - Housing and employment as the key problems--need to upgrade jobs and achieve equal pay
00:53:00 - White people involved in the NAACP--brotherhood programs by Conference of Christians and Jews--Beloit Council on Human Rights led by Professor Lucius Porter
01:00:58 - Introduction to second part
01:01:08 - Further comments on Lucius Porter, resentment against him
01:03:35 - Stumbling blocks in the way of blacks--objection to attaining goals
01:06:25 - Recollection of address by Senator Alexander Wiley of Wisconsin--Wiley's statement concerning cheap Chinese labor--discrimination rooted in special privilege
01:10:13 - Attitude toward Martin Luther King, Jr.--A.G. believed him to be mistaken in assuming that people are fundmentally good--A.G. also considered him a humble man and supported him
01:15:26 - Work experience at Beloit Iron Works--recollection of Mr. Neese as fair man
01:21:50 - B.I.W. compared to F.M.--relations with fellow workers at B.I.W.--the making of cores in the foundry
01:26:00 - Opportunities for A.G. as a core maker--John Cooper as first black core maker at Beloit Iron Works, A.G. an second--interracial relations at B.I.W.
01:31:59 - Bench and floor core making
01:33:14 - Organization of the Molders Union at Beloit Corporation (B.I.W.)
01:37:07 - A.G. as a leader in the union, member of bargaining committee--other leaders--union as a potential voice for black workers
01:41:21 - Common good v. self-interest in the union
01:42:30 - Ambrose Gordon as a member of the South Beloit School Board--also on Rock Valley Community College Board--problems as a school board member
01:47:42 - Further comments on election to the school board--desire to help slow children
01:54:00 - Experiences on the school board--incident regarding discharge of school nurse--no desire for further political involvement
