Our Gathering Places Oral History Project: Interview with Charles Nichols Sr.

Titles: Our Gathering Places Oral History Project: Interview with Charles Nichols Sr. (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Charles Nichols was born and educated in Duluth, Minnesota. At the time of the interview he was a developer. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Family background; early life; barbershop as entrepreneurial service, gathering place, and social hub; barbers as community leaders, psychologists, intermediaries, political advisors and successful small business owners; National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; adults watching out for children in the community; jobs available to African Americans; discrimination; travel style: maintaining a network of "places to stay"; community leaders; Fair Employment Practices Commission; jobs during wartimes; differing lifestyles among blacks and barbershop leveling effect; reading materials in shops; lack of major investments and purchases among blacks; black businesses in Duluth; moving to Minneapolis; respect for students, Dunwoody Institute; barbers in his family; division between black professionals and non-professionals; shoptalk about race; businesses begin to accept blacks as customers; social class of professionals; sports, railroad and political talk; Mayor Naftalin; areas of Minneapolis where blacks lived; his transition to career as teacher and administrator; his son's first haircut.

Dates

• 08/28/1997 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Nichols, Charles Sr.
• interviewer: Taylor, David Vassar

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 100
• Accession Number: AV2003.65.13

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Our Gathering Places Oral History Project' <OH 100>

Quantity: 1 hour sound cassette 18 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 00:19:19 running time

Subjects

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