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Our Gathering Places Oral History Project. Oral history interviews of the Our Gathering Places Oral History Project, 1997-1998.

Title: Oral history interviews of the Our Gathering Places Oral History Project, 1997-1998.

Most of these interviews were conducted to obtain background material for an exhibit at the Minnesota History Center about the African-American community in Minnesota. Those done by Mary Murphy-Gnatz and her colleagues were done to prepare curriculum materials for fourth graders. The interviews primarily focus on neighborhood activities, barbershops and beauty shops, although several musicians.

ArchivalResource: Sound recordings : 29 sound cassettes (60 min. each)Transcripts : 21 v. ; 28 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/54673960 View

Norton, Lorenze Smythe, 1911-1999. Smithy Norton papers, [ca. 1918]-1999 (bulk 1924-1983).

Title: Smithy Norton papers, [ca. 1918]-1999 (bulk 1924-1983).

Papers documenting the life and career of an African American who spent his youth in Minneapolis, Minnesota; served (1942-1945) in the United States Army during World War II at bases in the American South, where his duties involved public relations and special services assignments relating to African American troops; was a public and community relations consultant and agency owner in Chicago, Illinois (ca. 1935-1941, 1948-1951), where he undertook a variety of advertising and publicity projects directed primarily at the African American community; continued these activities following his return (ca. 1952) to Minneapolis, where he was a pioneer in promoting an awareness and knowledge of national and state African American history through his educational exhibits and was actively involved (ca. 1969-1979) in Black History Week/Month activities; and was a long-time employee (1954 - 197- ) of Greyhound Lines at the Minneapolis terminal.

ArchivalResource: 3.5 cu. ft. (4 boxes and 1 oversize folder)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/313870539 View