Interview with Raymond Wright, June 2, 1976, Beloit, Wisconsin

Clem Imhoff interviews Raymond Wright on June 2, 1976 in Beloit, Wisconsin. The second of two interviews with Imhoff, Wright discusses his experience at Fairbanks-Morse as the first Black foreman, Dee Gilliam's election as first Black president of Steelworkers Local 1533, his parents' reaction to Beloit and the civil rights efforts of Rev. Oliver Gibson in early 1960s. 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.