Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with S. Edward Hall

Titles: Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with S. Edward Hall (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Mr. Hall was born in Batavia, Illinois in 1878 and died in 1975. He came to St. Paul in 1900 and operated a barbershop there for 62 years. He was an active Republican, and a founder of the St. Paul Urban League and the Hallie Q. Brown Community Center. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: The 1970 interview has information on John Q. Adams and his newspaper, blacks in the state legislature, the NAACP, the Afro-American League, the Niagara movement, interracial marriages in the early 1900s, discrimination in St. Paul hotels and stories of customers and friends.

Dates

• 12/19/1970 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Hall, S. Edward
• interviewer: Taylor, David Vassar

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 43.8

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Minnesota Black History Project' <OH 43>

Quantity: 2 hours sound cassette 26 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 01:03:10 running time

Subjects

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