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Vots for the Preaident, And that won‘ t do no good. They can throw your ballot out it they went to.

	ni believ In the right thing, I wouldn‘t believe in anything e1ae~ I try to be loyal to the state and the city, ~it co1ored~ folks don‘t have much ahow. Work for a man rour or five years and go back to him and he don‘ t know nothin‘ about you. They soon torget you and a white man‘ a word goes tar.

	.	RI was able to work as late as 1930, but I ain‘t been no ‘count since to do much work, I get a pension tor old age from the Welfare and c~iod..

ities and I depend on that for a living. Ihatever they want to give ~‚ I‘ll take it and make out with it. If there‘s any chance for n~ to git a slave‘s pension, I wish they would send it to ~. For I need it awtu]. bad, They done eut rae way down now. I got heart trouble and high blood prea~ure but I don‘t give up.

	“My mother sure used to make good ash cake • ehen she nude it for my

daddy, she would p~t a piece of paper on it on top and~ another on th bott~n, That would keep it lean. She made it extra good. When he would git through, she would give us the rest, So~times, she wouldn‘t put the paper on it because she would be mad. He would ask, ‘No paper today?‘ She would say, I No • ‚ And he du‘ t say nothin‘ more.

	RThem is so~ ot the xi~anest whit. people in the United States in

Mississippi up there on the Yellow Dog River. That‘s where the I~vi1 makes meanness. ~

	“There‘ s acma pretty mean colored folks too, There is acne of them right here in Little Rock. Them boys from Ambar give ma a lot of trouble, They ride by on their bicycles and holler at us. If we say anything to them, they say, ‚ Shut up, old gray head.‘ Somat ime s they say worse,