- Collection:
- Many Paths, Many Voices: Oral Histories from the University of Washington Special Collections
- Title:
- Saunders (Robert) interview
- Creator:
- Saunders, Robert, 1901-
Gossett, Larry, 1945- - Date of Original:
- 1968-03-20
- Subject:
- African American coal miners--History--19th century
Great Migration, ca. 1914-ca. 1970
African American baseball players--History--20th century
Negro leagues--History--20th century
African Americans--Travel--Foreign countries--History--20th century
Civil rights movements--Washington (State)--Seattle--History--20th century
Race relations--History--20th century
Seattle Gas Company
Franklin High School (Seattle, Wash.)
Broadway High School (Seattle, Wash.) - Location:
- Africa, 7.1881, 21.09375
India, Mumbai, 19.0759899, 72.8773928
Russia, 64.6863136, 97.7453061
United States, Washington, King County, Seattle, 47.60621, -122.33207
United States, Washington, Kittitas County, Roslyn, 47.22345, -120.99314 - Medium:
- oral histories (literary genre)
sound recordings - Type:
- Sound
- Format:
- audio/flv
- Description:
- Roslyn, Washington, United States
Tape skips ahead periodically and there are occasional loud noises in the background. Second side of tape comes to an abrupt end. Robert Saunders was born in Rosyln, Washington in 1901. His family came to Washington to work in the mines but moved to Seattle after 1903, when his grandfather died in a mining accident. Saunders recounts his childhood in Seattle, during which his father worked as a fireman for the Seattle Gas Company. Saunders describes the different neighborhoods he lived in growing up as well as his experiences at Franklin and Broadway High Schools. He shares stories about his time playing professional baseball in a black league as well as his experiences working as a cook, butcher, baker and steward on ships over the years, which allowed him to travel all over the world. He shares anecdotes of his time in Africa, in Bombay, and in Russia, among other places. He also describes some of his memories of what life was like during the 1940s when a large influx of black and white people from the South came to Seattle and shares his thoughts on the Civil Rights Movement.
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- http://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ohc/id/425
- IIIF manifest:
- https://digitalcollections.lib.washington.edu/iiif/2/ohc:425/manifest.json
- Language:
- eng
- Additional Rights Information:
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- Original Collection:
- University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Oral History Collection
Afro-American Project
Black Americans
Robert Saunders Papers, Accession No. 4880-001
To view the finding aid for this collection see: https://archiveswest.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv82577 - Contributing Institution:
- University of Washington. Libraries. Special Collections Division
- Rights:
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Saunders (Robert) interview
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