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Iflhat I do wid ray money I made? I educated my girls. Yes maam I
show is got children. One my girls teaches school in St. Louis and de
other at Hot Springs. They both went to college at Pine Bluff. I
sent em. Norn dey don't help me. They is by my second wife and my
first wife live with my son, down close to Star City. Dey farm. It f s
down in Lincoln County. They let me live in this house. It belongs to
him. I went to the bank fo it closed and got my money whut I had left.
I been livin on it but it give out.
The conditions are all 3?*4e. They kin make a right smart but
everything is so high it don't buy much. Some of em say they aint
goiner do the hardest work, hot or cold and liftin for no dollar^day.
Don't nobody work hard as I used to. There's goiner be another war
and a lot of them killed - cause people aint doin right* Some don't
treat the others 3?4%e. No f m they never did. They used to threaten
em and take em out in cars and beat em up, just for disputin their
word or not paying em and de lack. The white man has cheated a heap
because we was ignorant and black. They gamble on the cotton and
take might near all of it for the cheap grub they let out to make de
crop on. Conditions are better but a heap of the young black and
white too deblish lazy to work. Some of dem get killed out goin on
at their meanness*,
them.
I heard of uprisings since the war but I never was bout none of
I votes the Republican ticket. The last I voted was for
rioover. Sure they have tried to change my way of voting but I aint
r.
gomer change. I aint heard i^thin bout no restrictions bout votin.
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