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In 1917, ten-year-old Rubie Bond left Mississippi with her parents to Beloit, Wisconsin. Her father, who worked as a tenant farmer had been recruited to work at a factory in Beloit. In 1976, she was interviewed as part of a history project documenting the experiences of African-American migrants who moved to Wisconsin between 1910s & 1950s.

-I'm wondering why your family decided to leave Mississippi. How was that decision made and why was it made?-

Well, the North offered better opportunities for blacks…. I've heard that recruiters were often in danger in Mississippi if they came down to get workers for northern companies.

-Do you recall him expressing any fear about this job that he was doing?-

Yes. I know that many of the blacks would leave the farms at night and walk for miles. Many of them caught the train to come North. the day before they would be in the field working and the plantation owner wouldn't even know that they planned to go and the next day. he would go and the little shanty would be empty.

-Was there a fear that the plantation owner wouldn't let them go or that they couldn't leave?-

That's very true. They wouldn't. Plantation owners had much to lose. African-American farmers were illiterate and they had to depend on the plantation owner. He would give them so much flour for use during the year, cornmeal or sugar or that sort of thing then at the end of the year you would go to settle up with him and you would always be deeply in debt to him. That was his way of keeping people.

-as a young girl, did you agree with this decision to move North?-

Yes. I did Because even as a child I think I was pretty sensitive to a lot of the inequalities that existed between blacks and whites, I know that after we moved my mother and dad used to tell me that if I went back, they would hang me to the first tree.

-What role did the church play in your early life in Mississippi?-

I think the church played an important part in the life of all blacks in Mississippi because it was religious center as well as social. That was one place that they could go to meet and discuss their problems….

-Given the opportunities that were available in the North, why did anyone decide to stay in Mississippi?-

I think that it was a lack of knowledge of about what the North had to offer until these agents came there to get them to come up here to work. You were leaving at least a few of your relatives and friends behind.

-How did you feel about those people that you left behind and weren't ever going to see again?-

Well, I think it comes back to a matter of trying to exist, and trying to improve.

question-

when Rubie and her family moved to wisconsin, what greater movement was happening in the United States at this time that was directly affecting African-American in particular?