BLACK COMMUNITY PROJECT Harris, lifelong resident and businessman of Springfield, recalls his experiences as a member of the African American community: social conditions, discrimination, segregation, and businesses. He recalls his own business ventures, including owning a restaurant, grocery store, garbage hauling, real estate, and the rental business. He discusses integrating the job market, 1937 Harris subdivision, Depression, and the 1908 race riot. He also discusses coal mining, funerals and wakes, and the Emancipation Day Celebration.

6 tapes, 508 mins., 2 vols., 150 pp. Interview by Reverend Negil L. McPherson, 1974 OPEN See collateral file