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Title	Tanner, Jack, January 20, 1973
Birthdate/Interviewee	1919
Occupation/Interviewee	Lawyer
Interview Date	1973-01-20
Length of Interview	101 minutes
Listen to Interview	http://content.wsulibs.wsu.edu/flash/?aud=jacktanner&img=bla
Subject	Tanner, Jack Oral history -- United States African Americans -- Washington (State) -- Tacoma African Americans -- Politics And Government African Americans -- Social conditions -- 20th century
Type	Interviews
Interview Location	United States -- Washington (State) -- Tacoma
Interviewer	Taylor, Quintard
Abstractor	Knight, Margot H.
Abstract	TAPE 43 (1st), SIDE A 0 - 5 Parents migrated to Washington from Indiana and Mississippi in the late 1800's. Family background. Problems his grandmother had in Indianapolis. Father a longshoreman . 5 - 8 Black churches in Tacoma. Social life was limited to church activities. Role of the church. Black social clubs . 8 - 12 Many blacks and other foreigners lived in the central area of Tacoma. Black politicians. Other black officials and government workers. Job opportunities for blacks--most on the waterfront; no professionals . 12 - 14 Education. Well-known blacks from the Tacoma area . 14 - 17 Wife's family came from Mississippi in 1924 or so. Story of them being ordered out of Mississippi . 17 - 21 Black athletes. Entertainment was mostly provided by the church. No fraternal or social organizations. Black musicians and singers . 21 - 25 Some blacks joined unions. Many longshoremen joined the union. He talks about the development of the union movement. Blacks involved in the union . 25 - 30 Many blacks started moving into the area in the late 30's. Black soldiers at Ft. Lewis . TAPE 43 (1st), SIDE B 0 - 5 More about black soldiers. More came during the Korean War. GI Bill helped many blacks to go to school. Many middle-class blacks in the Northwest. Many whites did not like the influx of blacks. No outright discrimination but police brutality was not uncommon . 5 - 17 NAACP was fairly active. It was established in Tacoma in 1913. Miscegenation laws. His activities in the NAACP. Involvement in the civil rights movement. Marches . 17 - 27 Talks about his involvement in Indian fishing rights demonstrations. His work as a lawyer--arguing cases before the Supreme Court . 27 - 30 Blacks have not been as active in politics as Indians have . TAPE 44 (2nd), SIDE A 0 - 3 More about Indian confrontations over fishing rights. He has been involved with this problem since 1964 . 3 - 7 Blacks in politics. Black movements. He was state chairman for the Democratic Party in 1967. Friendship with Scoop Jackson. More about his political activities . 7 - 14 His campaign for governor in 1968. His campaign platform. Work with the NAACP made him politically sophisticated. More about friendship with Jackson. Jackson's Politics . 14 - 17 What he would have done had he been elected governor . 17 - 20 Bush Prarie named after a black who travelled with Lewis and Clark. Contact with other ethnic groups was minimal. Black soldiers . 21 - 27 Feelings about living in the Pacific Northwest.
Abstract Date	1979-06-18
Identifier	jacktanner.rm
Collection	Black Oral History Interviews, 1972-1974 http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/finders/cass2.htm
Language	English
Format	Interview cassette tapes were converted to RealAudio files with a bit rate of 16Kbps and placed on a RealServer 8.0 streaming server at the Washington State University Libraries.
Rights	For permission to publish, please contact Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (509) 335 - 6691.
Publisher	Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries http://wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masc.htm

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