Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with Ethel Ray Nance

Titles: Minnesota Black History Project: Interview with Ethel Ray Nance (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Ethel Ray Nance was born April 13, 1899 in Duluth, Minnesota. She has been the assistant head resident of the Phyllis Wheatley House (1920s), the first black policewoman in Minneapolis (1926), the first black stenographer in the Minnesota legislature, a member of the Minnesota Negro Council and an associate editor (with Cecil Newman) of the Timely Digest. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Mrs. Nance discusses her family background, the Duluth black community in the early 1900s, the 1920 lynchings in Duluth, the Moose Lake Fire Relief Commission (1918) and her work experiences.

Dates

• 05/25/1974 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Nance, Ethel Ray
• interviewer: Taylor, David Vassar

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 43.16

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

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

Quantity: 1.5 hours sound cassette 42 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 01:26:40 running time

Subjects

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