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"We were savages when we came over here* Everything we got and
everything we know, good and bad9 we got from the white folks* Don't know
how they can get impatient with us when everything we do they learnt us*
"Roosevelt has done more than any Democrat that has ever been in the
Chair* He had to do something to keep down a rebellion* Then we like to
had one as it is through the labor question* ^*£ k '
"The poor white man always has been in a tight! He was almost as much
oppressed as the Negro*
"The young people of today ain f t got no sense* They don 9 t give no
thought to nothing* They don 9 t know how to think at all* 111 the schools
and education they give don f t make them think* If I had as much education
as they have, I would be able to accomplish something* The teachers don 9 t
press down on them and make them know what they go over* There is a whole
lot of things happening now*
Old People in Pulaskl County
"Out in Pulaski County, going west out the Nineteenth Street Pike till
you strike the Saline County line, there are quite a few old colored
people* I guess you would find no less than twenty-five or thirty out that
way* There is one old man named Junius Peterson out that way who used to
run a mill* If you find him, he is very old and has a good memory* He is
a mulatto* Tou could get out to him by going down till you come to a place
that is called the Henderson Lane* Tou turn to the right and go off the
pike less than a mile and you come to a big one-story house sett in f on a
hill where Peterson lives* Right on beyond that about three-fourths of a
mile on the right side of the road, you come to George Gregory 1 a* The
mother of my church is about eighty-one years old but she is over in Saline
County. Her name is Jane Joyner*
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