Black History

In the Black World:
Thomas Fleming's 20th Century
By Thomas C. Fleming, edited by Max Millard
(complete book, 2006 edition, free text version)

Reflections on Black History
By Thomas C. Fleming,
edited by Max Millard
(www.freepress.org/fleming/fleming.html)

Articles about Thomas Fleming
(Read online)

CDs of Thomas Fleming speaking: approximately 70 minutes each, available for $5 each including postage.
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Track CD 1: Thomas Fleming: The Way It Was, 1912-1933 Interviewed by Max Millard, March 1998 CD 2: Thomas Fleming: San Francisco, 1926-1978 Interviewed by Max Millard, September 1998

1. Opening music Introduction

2. Introduction Trains in the Bay Area

3. A Stowaway from Jacksonville Racial climate in the Bay Area

4. Fats Waller The Southern Pacific

5. Life in Harlem The Admiral Line

6. Ships in World War I Black entertainers

7. Spanish flu epidemic of 1918 Duke Ellington

8. The street gang Langston Hughes

9. Truancy Paul Robeson and Jackie Robinson

10. Marcus Garvey Paul Robeson and Jackie Robinson

11. Black soldiers of World War I Carlton Goodlett

12. Leaving New York/black entertainers The general strike of 1934

13. To California by rail Discrimination in World War II

14. Arrival in Chico Streetcar drivers and firemen

15. Black community in Chico Mayor Roger Lapham

16. Race relations The black population boom

17. President Warren Harding "Activities Among Negroes"

18. Henry Herriford The Spokesman

19. Fishing in Chico Black reporters for the white press

20. My stepfather Moses Mosley Senator William Knowland and Governor Pat Brown

21. My mother, the domestic Civil rights in the 1960s

22. Mixed marriages Willie Brown

23. Stella Edwards Jim Jones and the People's Temple

24. Prominent black citizens The black press

25. Emancipation Day

26. Black fraternal organizations

27. Mamie Smith

28. A boxing match

29. Knights of Pythias convention

30. Goodbye to Chico 1926

31. Back to Chico 1932

32. A lynching in San Jose

33. Final reflections on Chico

Track	CD 1: Thomas Fleming: The Way It Was, 1912-1933 Interviewed by Max Millard, March 1998	CD 2: Thomas Fleming: San Francisco, 1926-1978 Interviewed by Max Millard, September 1998
1.	Opening music	Introduction
2.	Introduction	Trains in the Bay Area
3.	A Stowaway from Jacksonville	Racial climate in the Bay Area
4.	Fats Waller	The Southern Pacific
5.	Life in Harlem	The Admiral Line
6.	Ships in World War I	Black entertainers
7.	Spanish flu epidemic of 1918	Duke Ellington
8.	The street gang	Langston Hughes
9.	Truancy	Paul Robeson and Jackie Robinson
10.	Marcus Garvey	Paul Robeson and Jackie Robinson
11.	Black soldiers of World War I	Carlton Goodlett
12.	Leaving New York/black entertainers	The general strike of 1934
13.	To California by rail	Discrimination in World War II
14.	Arrival in Chico	Streetcar drivers and firemen
15.	Black community in Chico	Mayor Roger Lapham
16.	Race relations	The black population boom
17.	President Warren Harding	"Activities Among Negroes"
18.	Henry Herriford	The Spokesman
19.	Fishing in Chico	Black reporters for the white press
20.	My stepfather Moses Mosley	Senator William Knowland and Governor Pat Brown
21.	My mother, the domestic	Civil rights in the 1960s
22.	Mixed marriages	Willie Brown
23.	Stella Edwards	Jim Jones and the People's Temple
24.	Prominent black citizens	The black press
25.	Emancipation Day
26.	Black fraternal organizations
27.	Mamie Smith
28.	A boxing match
29.	Knights of Pythias convention
30.	Goodbye to Chico 1926
31.	Back to Chico 1932
32.	A lynching in San Jose
33.	Final reflections on Chico