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	“You couldn‘t go to school without paying unless you. were sent by the Board. We lived in the country and I would go home in the winter and. study

in the suiiimer, Professor 3~. C. Corbin was principal of the Pine Bluff Branch Normal at that time. Dr. A. H. Hill, Professor Booker, and quite a number of the people we consider distinguished were in school then. They fini8hed, but I didntt. I had to go to n~y mother because she was ill. I don‘t claim to have no schooling at all.


“Forty Acre s and a Mule“

	“My mother received forty acres of land when fréedom came. gave it to her. She was given forty acres of laud and a colt. more to tell about that. It was just that way~a gift of forty land and a colt from her former master4

	“My mother died. There is a woman living now that lost it (the home). Mother let Malinda live on it. Mother lived with the white folks meanwhile. Si;Le didn‘t need the property for herself. She kept it for us. She built a nice log house on it. Fifteen acres of it was under c~ltivation when it was given to her. My sister lived on it for a long time. She mortgaged it in some way I don‘tknow how. I remember when the white people ran me dom there some years back to get me to sign a title to lt. I didn‘t have to sign the paper because the property had been deeded to Susan Badgett and

Hi~iRS; lawyers advised me not to sign it. But I signed it for the sake of my sister.
	:	Father and Master

	“My mother‘ s master was named Badgett..~Captain John Badgett. He was a Liethodist preacher. Soins of the Badgetts still own property on Main Street. My mother‘s master‘s father was my daddy.
Her master

There is no acres of