Minnesota Black History Project

Titles: Minnesota Black History Project (Supplied title)

Description: In 1974 the Minnesota Historical Society used funds provided by the Northwest Area Foundation to collect and organize materials germane to the history of blacks in Minnesota. During two summers the staff of the Minnesota Black History Project, under the direction of David V. Taylor, collected records of organizations, institutions, clubs and churches, as well as personal papers, genealogies, photographs and oral interviews. The series includes the oral history interviews conducted for this project as well as some earlier interviews Taylor undertook in doing research for his doctoral dissertation. A more complete description of these interviews and of other material in the Society's collections relating to blacks is contained in Blacks in Minnesota: A Preliminary Guide to Historical Sources compiled by David V. Taylor and published by the Society in 1976.

Dates

• 1970 - 1975 (Creation)

Interviews

• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with Eva Bell Neal' <OH 43,17>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with Grace Ross' <OH 43.23>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with Edward Nichols' <OH 43.18>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with Sidonia Elizabeth Black' <OH 43.3>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with Zorra LaVerne Sims Thomas' <OH 43.28>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with William F. Maupins Jr.' <OH 43.13>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with William F. Helm' <OH 43.9>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with S. Edward Hall' <OH 43.8>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with Stephen L. Maxwell' <OH 43.14>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with Maceo Simmons' <OH 43.24>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with Boyd A. Wright Sr.' <OH 43.32>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with Adina Adams Gibbs' <OH 43.7>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with Norman Paul Lyght' <OH 43.11>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with Tom Sligh' <OH 43.25>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with Ione Brown' <OH 43.4>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with Nellie Stone Johnson' <OH 43.10>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with Almetra Robinson' <OH 43.22>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with John L. Banks' <OH 43.1>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with Frederick L. Parker' <OH 43.19>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with Florence Hibbs Daniels' <OH 43.5>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with Maxine J. Taylor' <OH 43.27>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with Rev. Alphonse Reff' <OH 43.20>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with James Richard Lynn' <OH 43.12>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with Mattie Vera Jackson Rhodes' <OH 43.21>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with Fred Douglas Bell and Lillian Vina Bell' <OH 43.2>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with Carrie L. Dozier' <OH 43.6>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with Charles M. Stalling and Geraldine H. Stalling' <OH 43.26>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with Anita Bracy Tucker' <OH 43.29>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with Polletta Vera Leonard Webster' <OH 43.30>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with Marjorie Wilkins' <OH 43.31>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with Ethel Ray Nance' <OH 43.16>
• Oral History - Interview, MHS Collection, sound cassette: 'Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with Louis Moore Sr.' <OH 43.15>

Creation

• interviewee: Banks, John L.
• interviewee: Bell, Fred Douglas
• interviewee: Bell, Lillian Vina
• interviewee: Black, Sidonia Elizabeth
• interviewee: Brown, Ione
• interviewee: Daniels, Florence Hibbs
• interviewee: Dozier, Carrie L.
• interviewee: Gibbs, Adina Adams
• interviewee: Hall, S. Edward
• interviewee: Helm, William F.
• interviewee: Johnson, Nellie Stone
• interviewee: Lyght, Norman Paul
• interviewee: Lynn, James Richard
• interviewee: Maupins, William F. Jr.
• interviewee: Maxwell, Stephen L.
• interviewee: Moore, Louis Pettis Sr.
• interviewee: Neal, Eva Bell
• interviewee: Nichols, Edward
• interviewee: Parker, Frederick L.
• interviewee: Reff, Reverend Alphonse
• interviewee: Rhodes, Mrs. Mattie Vera Jackson
• interviewee: Robinson, Almetra
• interviewee: Ross, Grace
• interviewee: Simmons, Maceo
• interviewee: Sligh, Tom
• interviewee: Stalling, Charles M.
• interviewee: Stalling, Mrs. Geraldine Hughes
• interviewee: Taylor, Maxine Johnson
• interviewee: Thomas, Zorra LaVerne Sims
• interviewee: Tucker, Anita Bracy
• interviewee: Webster, Polletta Vera Leonard
• interviewee: Wilkins, Marjorie
• interviewee: Wright, Boyd A. Sr.
• interviewer and interviewee: Nance, Ethel Ray
• interviewer: Foster, W. J. Musa
• interviewer: Jones, Seitu
• interviewer: Simba, Malik
• interviewer: Taylor, David Vassar
• interviewer: Trimble, Steve

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 43

Holding Type: Oral History - Project

Quantity: 1 project 53 hours sound cassette 728 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Subjects

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