Introduction [00:00]
Residence in Los Angeles, California [00:33]
Father's employment as Baptist missionary minister in Los Angeles, California [01:23]
Children in family [02:35]
Jobs for African Americans in Oakland [03:03]
Meeting and courtship with Felix Beckford [04:18]
Felix Beckford working as a taxicab driver in San Francisco, California [05:00]
Salary as a taxicab driver [07:03]
Felix Beckford work as a car polisher in Oakland known as ‘Felix the Cat' [07:50]
Beckford children [11:07]
Operating a miniature golf course in Oakland in the 1930s [11:48]
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