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Title	Mr. and Mrs. William King, April 5, 1973
Birthdate/Interviewee	1894
Occupation/Interviewee	Farmer
Interview Date	1973-04-05
Length of Interview	1 hour
Listen to Interview	http://content.wsulibs.wsu.edu/flash/?aud=mrandmrswilliamking&img=bla
Related Information	A prior interview with William King can be found as: William King, October 6, 1972
Subject	King, Mr. and Mrs. William Oral history -- United States United States -- Idaho African Americans -- Washington (State) --Spokane African Americans -- Idaho African American Farmers
Type	Interviews
Interview Location	United States -- Idaho -- Tensed
Interviewer	Taylor, Quintard
Abstractor	Knight, Margot H.
Abstract	SIDE A 0 - 3 minutes Stump ranching in northern Idaho. He worked for I.A. Brown. 3 - 9 minutes Life in North Carolina before they moved West. Family backgrounds. Her father worked in a tobacco plant. Durham, North Carolina. How they came West. Her work in Spokane. 9 - 15 minutes More about the blacks in Spokane. She talks about her family. Her early religious upbringing. Calvary Baptist Church in Spokane. 15 - 17 minutes Their courtship and marriage. Talk a bit about the Indians. 17 - 20 minutes Why he decided to homestead where he did. 20 - 23 minutes She tells about working in the Davenport Hotel. More about how they met. First car. 23 - 30 minutes He had his own horses and started raising oats, barley, and potatoes. He also helped his brothers. Getting stumps out of the ground. Raising cattle. SIDE B 0 - 4 minutes More about raising cattle. He raised a few hogs. 4 - 9 minutes Hard to start a new farm now. The local Indians. Land has increased in value tremendously since they bought their land. 9 - 11 minutes One of their granddaughters works in Pullman. Other children. 11 - 15 minutes Farm equipment and land. Pat Walsh, the railroad inspector. Well-to-do blacks in Spokane. 15 - 20 minutes His brothers, their places, and families. Their children. 20 - 23 minutes They like living in the country. Wildlife in the area. 23 - 30 minutes He was drafted and went into the service during WW I. Burial detail. The campaigns were segregated.
Abstract Date	1979-06-08
Identifier	mrandmrswilliamking.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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