Interview with Milo Manly, September 11, 1984
Project: Goin' North: Tales of the Great Migration Oral History Project
Interview Summary
In this 1984 interview, Milo Manly (1903-1991) discusses his experiences in Philadelphia during the 1920s and 1930s with the Lloyd Committee, Mothers Assistance Fund, and the Philadelphia branch of N.A.A.C.P. He also talks at length about his father, Alexander L. Manly (1866-1944), who fled in 1898 from a lynch mob in Wilmington, North Carolina to Washington D.C. and then to Philadelphia in 1902. There, as secretary of the Armstrong Association, he played a significant role in providing job opportunities for Black migrants to the city during the era of the First Great Migration.Interview Accession
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A.D. Manly A.L. Manly African American neighborhoods National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. African Americans--Societies, etc. Race riots--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia. Alexander Manly Armstrong Association Daily Record (Wilmington, NC) Depressions--1929 Fellowship Commission Frank Manly NAACP National Urban league Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social conditions. Race riots--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia. Reconstruction Relief Board The Great Depression Transit strikesInterview LC Subject
African American leadership African Americans--Civil rights African Americans--Politics and government African Americans--Social conditions African Americans--Housing. Race discrimination. United States--Race relations. African Americans--Employment. African Americans--Southern States. African Americans--Societies, etc. Philadelphia (Pa.)--Social conditions. African Americans--Legal status, laws, etc. African American neighborhoodsInterview Rights
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Manly, Milo Interview by Charles Hardy, III. 11 Sep. 1984. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Manly, M. (1984, September 11). Interview by C. H. III. Goin' North: Tales of the Great Migration Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Manly, Milo, interview by Charles Hardy, III. September 11, 1984, Goin' North: Tales of the Great Migration Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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