SLAVE NARRATIVES - Library of Congress

"I married the second year I came to Arkansas, about sixty-two or
sixty-three years ago* I have lived in Little Roqk about thirty-two or
thirty-three years* When I first came here, I came right up here on
Seventeenth and State streets*
Voting
"I never voted* For twenty years the old white lady I stayed with
looked after my taxes* None of my friends ever voted* I ain't got nothing
but scans children and they ain't never been crazy enough to go to anybody's
polls*
Family
"I have two brothers dead and a sister* My mother is dead* I am not
sure whether or not my father is dead* The Ku KLux scared him out of
Atkins, and he went up in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and I ain f t ne^er heard of him
since. I don't know whether he is dead or not*
"I have raised five children of my own*
Ku KLux Klan
»These Ku ELux, they had not long ago used to go and whip folks that
wasn't doing right* That was mongst the white people and the colored*
Comer that used to have this furniture store on Main Street, he used to be
the head of it, they say*
*X used to work for an old white man who told me how they done* They
would walk along the street with their disguises hidden under their arms*
Then when they got to the meeting place, they would put their disguises
on and go out and do their devilment* Then when they were through*
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