Interview: William Fields, November 11, 1984

Interview: William Fields, November 11, 1984

African American churches

Migration, Internal.

African Americans--Economic conditions.

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social conditions.

African Americans--Southern States.

African Americans--Employment.

African Americans--Segregation

African Americans--Social conditions.

Integration

William E. Fields (b. 1889) the son of a farmer in Denton County, Texas, left home at the age of 17. He soon married, started a family, and moved to Dallas, Texas. Though he had a good job, Fields in 1917 hopped a train for Philadelphia. Though he traveled up on the free transportation the Pennsylvania Railroad offered to those willing to work on the railroad, Fields never did a day’s work for them. Instead, he worked a number of other jobs including Baldwin Locomotive Works and Hog Island Shipyard. He spent the next seven decades living in Philadelphia and during that time, the City of Brotherly Love became his home.

1984-11-11

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Charles Hardy

William Fields

African Americans--Societies, etc.

African Americans--Politics and government.

World War, 1914-1918

Philadelphia (Pa.)--Politics and government.

African American families

African Americans--Marriage.