Interview with Lorenzo Grady, June 9, 1976, Beloit, Wisconsin

Clem Imhoff interviews Lorenzo Grady on June 9, 1976 in Beloit, Wisconsin. Grady discusses his family background in Mississippi, his family as Republican, farming practice, class distinctions among African Americans in Mississippi, and the influence of Methodist Church. Grady also discusses his move to Beloit, work at Fairbanks-Morse, and prejudice in Beloit as compared to prejudice in Pontotoc, Mississippi. This oral history is part of a series of tape-recorded interviews conducted in 1976 by Clem Imhoff for the Beloit Bicentennial Commission with black and white residents of Beloit, Wisconsin, concerning migration of blacks to the city from Kentucky and Mississippi after World War I and their lives before and after the move. Included in the interviews are references to employment and labor problems at Fairbanks-Morse, education, churches, the Women's Community Club, Beloit College, and the local chapter of the NAACP.