Our Gathering Places Oral History Project: Interview with Charles Rogers

Titles: Our Gathering Places Oral History Project: Interview with Charles Rogers (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Charles Rogers was born and educated in Missouri. His background is in education. He came to Minnesota in the early 1950s as the first industrial relations secretary for the St. Paul Urban League. He was formerly assistant principal at Central High School in St. Paul. He was the first black male teaching in St. Paul elementary public schools. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Work at St. Louis munitions plants as personnel director; work and accomplishments as Urban League labor relations secretary; improving job opportunities for blacks; college graduates and job exclusion; Cecil Newman and threatened boycott of arsenal plant; barbershops’ role as employment referrals and information exchanges; barbershops of Hall, Martin, Howard and Dick Smith; subjects discussed in barbershops; Maxfield Elementary School; McKinley Elementary School; Murray High School; Central High School walkout over lack of black teachers; difficulties in his move to Central; tensions in the black community in the 1960s; Pilgrim Baptist Church as focal point of black community; inability of blacks to move out of area; realtors; mortgage companies; Fair Employment Practice Law; Owens, Crump, Hall, Barry, Mobley, Crouch, Godet, Wigington, and Weber as leaders; barbershop provided role models.

Dates

• 09/14/1997 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Rogers, Charles
• interviewer: Taylor, David Vassar

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 100
• Accession Number: AV2003.65.15

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

• 01:00:27 running time

Subjects

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