Scope and Contents Tape 4, Side 1, through Tape 5, Side 1. In the third interview session, conducted on July 24, 1985, Bogle continues to discuss her activities after high school, and describes being denied entry to college or jobs other than domestic labor in the 1920s because of her race. She talks about Black-owned businesses in Portland. She discusses her decision to move to Los Angeles, California, in the 1920s, and how that led to her marriage to Richard Waldo Bogle in 1927. She talks about raising a...

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Tape 5, Side 2, through Tape 6, Side 2. In the fourth interview session, conducted on July 31, 1985, Bogle discusses her involvement with the Portland Chapter of the NAACP beginning in the 1930s, and talks about members of the group, including Ruth Haefner, Charles Maxey, and Otto Rutherford. She also discusses conflict between the NAACP and the Urban League of Portland. She shares her experience learning to drive as an adult, against the wishes of her husband.