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Reverend and Mrs. Sam Coleman, December 8, 1972

Collection:: Black Oral History Collection
Title:: Reverend and Mrs. Sam Coleman, December 8, 1972
Creator:: Coleman, Sam
Contributor to Resource:: Coleman, Sam, Mrs., 1903-
Publisher:: Black Oral History Interviews, 1972-1974, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University
Date of Original:: 1972-12-08
Subject:: Oral history--United States
Family--History--Mississippi
Family--History--Illinois--Chicago
African Americans--Washington (State)--Pasco
African Americans--Washington (State)--Seattle
African Americans--Colorado--Denver
African Americans--California
African Americans--Illinois--Chicago
African American men--Washington (State)
Men--Washington (State)
African American women--Washington (State)
Women--Washington (State)
Wives--Washington (State)
Housewives--Washington (State)
Community life--Illinois--Chicago
African Americans--Social conditions--20th century
Pasco (Wash.)--Social conditions--20th century
African Americans--Employment
African Americans--Employment--Washington (State)
Railroads--Washington (State)--Pasco
Railroads--Employees--Washington (State)--Pasco
African American railroad employees--Washington (State)--Pasco
African American cooks--Washington (State)--Pasco
Cooks--Washington (State)--Pasco
Great Northern Railway Company (U.S.)
Pullman Company
Wages--Railroads--Washington (State)--Pasco
Wages--Washington (State)--Pasco
Taxicabs--Washington (State)--Pasco
Taxicab drivers--Washington (State)--Pasco
Railroad cars--Washington (State)--Pasco
Railroad accidents--Washington (State)--Pasco
Accidents--Washington (State)--Pasco
African Americans--Wounds and injuries--Washington (State)--Pasco
African Americans--Death
African Americans--Housing--Washington (State)--Pasco
Housing--Washington (State)--Pasco
Dwellings--Washington (State)--Pasco
African Americans--Dwellings--Washington (State)--Pasco
High school graduates--Washington (State)--Pasco
African American high school students--Washington (State)--Pasco
High school students--Washington (State)--Pasco
Students--Washington (State)--Pasco
Pasco High School (Pasco, Wash.)
African American girls--Education--Washington (State)--Pasco
Girls--Education--Washington (State)--Pasco
African American women--Education--Washington (State)--Pasco
Women--Education--Washington (State)--Pasco
Podiatry--Washington (State)--Pasco
Podiatrists--Washington (State)--Pasco
Foot--Diseases--Washington (State)--Pasco
African American physicians--Washington (State)--Pasco
Physicians--Washington (State)--Pasco
Education--Washington (State)--Pasco
Public schools--Washington (State)--Pasco
Schools--Washington (State)--Pasco
African American teachers--Washington (State)--Pasco
Teachers--Washington (State)--Pasco
Teaching--Washington (State)--Pasco
African American farmers--Washington (State)--Pasco
Farmers--Washington (State)--Pasco
Land tenure--Washington (State)--Pasco
Land tenure--Washington (State)--Seattle
African Americans--Land tenure--Washington (State)--Pasco
African Americans--Land tenure--Washington (State)--Seattle
Landowners--Washington (State)--Pasco
Landowners--Washington (State)--Seattle
Real property--Washington (State)--Pasco
Real property--Washington (State)--Seattle
African American business enterprises--Washington (State)--Pasco
African American business enterprises--Washington (State)--Seattle
Business enterprises--Washington (State)--Pasco
Business enterprises--Washington (State)--Seattle
African American businesspeople--Washington (State)--Pasco
African American businesspeople--Washington (State)--Seattle
Businesspeople--Washington (State)--Pasco
Businesspeople--Washington (State)--Seattle
Contractors--Washington (State)--Seattle
Construction industry--Washington (State)--Seattle
African American construction workers--Washington (State)--Seattle
Construction workers--Washington (State)--Seattle
Discrimination in employment--Colorado--Denver
Job vacancies--Colorado--Denver
Denver (Colo.)--Race relations
Race relations
Seattle (Wash.)--Race relations
Pasco (Wash.)--Race relations
Chicago (Ill.)--Race relations
Whitman College
Marriage--Washington (State)
Hardware--Washington (State)
Hardware stores--Washington (State)
Business losses--Washington (State)
African American lawyers--Washington (State)--Seattle
Lawyers--Washington (State)--Seattle
Labor unions--Washington (State)--Seattle
Construction workers--Labor unions--Washington (State)--Seattle
Discrimination in employment--Washington (State)--Seattle
African Americans--Religion
African American churches--Washington (State)
African American churches--Washington (State)--Seattle
African American churches--Washington (State)--Pasco
Churches--Washington (State)
Churches--Washington (State)--Seattle
Churches--Washington (State)--Pasco
Churches--West (U.S.)
Churches--Northwest, Pacific
African American churches--Northwest, Pacific
Rescue missions (Church work)--Washington (State)--Olympia
African American clergy--Washington (State)
Clergy--Washington (State)
African American evangelists--Washington (State)
Evangelists--Washington (State)
Evangelistic work--Washington (State)
Missionary Pentecostal Association
Rationing--United States
Gasoline--Prices--United States
War--Economic aspects--United States
World War, 1939-1945--Economic aspects--United States
Washington (State)--Description and travel
African Americans--Travel
Homeowners--Washington (State)--Pasco
Home ownership--Washington (State)--Pasco
House construction--Washington (State)--Pasco
Hanford Site (Wash.)
Nuclear facilities--Washington (State)
Nuclear weapons--Washington (State)
Nuclear reactors--Washington (State)
Plutonium--Washington (State)
Plutonium industry--Washington (State)
Urban League (Pasco, Wash.)
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. Pasco Branch
Discrimination--Washington (State)--Pasco
Discrimination in restaurants--Washington (State)--Pasco
Race discrimination--Washington (State)--Pasco
Civil rights--Washington (State)
African Americans--Civil rights--Washington (State)
African American neighborhoods--Washington (State)--Pasco
Ethnic neighborhoods--Washington (State)--Pasco
Neighborhood--Washington (State)--Pasco
Community life--Washington (State)--Pasco
Restaurants--Washington (State)--Pasco
Porters--Washington (State)--Pasco
People:: Coleman, Sam
Coleman, Sam, Mrs., 1903-
Coleman, Sam--Marriage
Coleman, Sam, Mrs., 1903- --Marriage
Coleman, Sam--Travel
Coleman, Sam, Mrs., 1903- --Travel
Location:: United States, Colorado, Denver County, Denver, 39.73915, -104.9847
United States, Illinois, Cook County, Chicago, 41.85003, -87.65005
United States, Mississippi, 32.75041, -89.75036
United States, Washington, Franklin County, 46.53477, -118.89889
United States, Washington, Franklin County, Pasco, 46.23958, -119.10057
United States, Washington, King County, 47.49084, -121.83583
United States, Washington, King County, Seattle, 47.60621, -122.33207
Type:: Sound
Description:: Oral history interview with Reverend and Mrs. Sam Coleman of Pasco and Seattle, Washington.
TAPE 9 (1st), SIDE A: 0 - 10 Her family background. From Mississippi and came to Washington in 1916. Her father worked for the railroad. Other blacks in Pasco. Most lived in railroad cars on the east side of town. Then they went to California and Chicago. Life in Chicago. They returned to Pasco. He died after being run over by a train while working. 10 - 14 They married in 1927. She was the first colored girl to graduate from Pasco High School (1924). She almost married a foot doctor. Her experiences teaching school. 14 - 21 There were no black farmers in the area. Other black families in the area. He was from Chicago and came out to Pasco in 1944. He worked as a cook for the railroad in 1915 or so. The Great Northern paid more than the Pullman Company. He then went into the taxi business in 1916. 21 - 30 He bought property in Pasco in the 30's but didn't move there. He talks about his businesses in Seattle- he was the first Negro general contractor in Washington. Experiences working in Denver in 1920--there was trouble working with whites. TAPE 9 (1st), SIDE B: 0 - 6 Their marriage. She had attended Whitman College. More about his businesses in Seattle and his associates. How he got his hardware business. Two colored lawyers in Seattle. He lost a lot of money on the hardware store. 6 - 8 Working as a contractor. The unions didn't like coloreds working in certain areas of town. 8 - 12 They returned to Pasco in 1944. He had pastored a rescue mission in Olympia until 1938 when the Lord told him he was evangelistic. They traveled continuously until the gas rationing. Then he worked in order to get gas stamps. 12 - 18 They built a home on their property in Pasco in 1943. He established the first black church in 1944 on the request of white ministers in town. Many were coming into town for the Hanford project. Problems with building the church because he wanted to build it on his own property. 18 - 22 His activities with the Missionary Pentecostal Association until 1944. They worked more with white people than with colored when they were travelling evangelists. Black churches throughout the West. 22 - 26 More about his church and other churches in Pasco. He ran his church until 1949. In 1944 through the NAACP and the Urban League they tried to get restaurants to serve blacks. TAPE 10 (2nd), SIDE A: 0 - 10 More about the NAACP. The whites in town wanted all the minorities on the east side of the RR tracks. The problems he had trying to build on the west side. Troubles with his lawyers. 10 - 13 Talks about the land he owned and who he sold it to. Talks about his relatives. 13 - 23 He has never been involved with politics. A rich man and a politician have no place in heaven. More about problems building in Pasco. He had a cafe in town, too, and fed some of the black workers on the Hanford project. Problems getting paid. Other property problems. 23 - 26 Selling his property after the war. He refused to buy property on the east side of the tracks on principle. TAPE 10 (2nd), SIDE B: 0 - 3
Talks about the railroad and working with Turner, a redcap. Other families in the area. Her parents owned property in Pasco, too. 3 - 29 More about their evangelism in mostly white churches. Black churches in Seattle. Growth of black churches in the Northwest. Black evangelists. The Pentecostals often criticized other religions. He talks about his own religious ideas.
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Metadata URL:: http://content.libraries.wsu.edu/cdm/ref/collection/5985/id/85
Rights Holder:: For permission to publish, please contact Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (509) 335 - 6691.
Extent:: audio/x-pn-realaudio
Contributing Institution:: Washington State University. Library. Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
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