Rondo Oral History Project: Interview with Willie Lee Frelix

Titles: Rondo Oral History Project: Interview with Willie Lee Frelix (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Eighty-nine year old Willie Frelix worked as a Pullman porter and later as a construction worker. Working as a Pullman porter, he traveled to many places in America and loved his job of supporting the soldiers during World War II. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Experience of working as a Pullman porter; facing discrimination and the disrespect he received from the Pullman Company; comparing Saint Paul with life in the South; he also communicates his commitment to not being physically abused by a white person.

Dates

• 02/20/2004 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewer: Cavett, Kate
• interviewee: Frelix, Willie Lee

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 110.11
• Accession Number: AV2007.22.11
• Link to Finding Aid

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Rondo Oral History Project' <OH 110>

Quantity: 1 sound cassette 47 pages transcript 2 audio files

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 01:18:19 running time

Subjects

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