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	Interviewer	Thcsnaa E].aore Ia~ey	~. ~
	Person Interviewed	Lacy Cotton	~•
Ib~sse11vÇ11ï, Arkansas
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~	~ ——~~—~—~ ~-——~~— — ~I~cy Cotton‘ s my name, and I was born on the tenth

day of June, 1865, gist two months after the surrender, No euh, I ain‘t no kin to the other Cottons around here, 80 far as I knows, My mother was J‘ane flays, and she was owned by a master named Wilson,

*I~ve be1on~ed to the Holiness Church six years.

(They cal). us ‘Holiness, ‚ but the real name is

Pentecostal.)

“Yes suh, there‘s a heap o~ difference in folk8 now

t an when I was a gina—especially among the young people.

I think no woman, white or black, has got any ~siness

wastin‘ time around the votin‘ polls. Their place is at

home raisin‘ a family. I hear em sometimes slinging out

their ‘damns‘ and it sure don‘t soiiii‘ right to ~.

“Good day, mistah. I wish you well--but the goy‘..

meut ain‘t gonna do nothing. It never has ylt,“