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FOLKLORE SUBJECTS

Name of Interviewer	S.S. Taylor	
Subject --       Share Cropping; Did n’t Want to Be Free; Riots and KKK
                       Ex Slave Stories
Story:                        ******

came up, they Are the ones that killed the thing. An old white man said:
“We thought if you folks kept it up we or you one would have to leave this
country. But when the young ones came on, and began  bedgruding one anoth-
er this and that and working against one another, then we saw you would
never make a nation.”

	I have been in big riots. I was in the Atlanta riots in 1891. We 
Lost about forty men, and I don’t know how many the white folks lost, but
they said it was about a hundred. I used to live there. I came here in
1892.
	We had a riot there when the KKK was raising so much Cain, The first
Klu Klux wore some kind of hat that went over the man’s head and shoulders
and had great big red eyes in it. They broke open my house one night to
whip me.
	I was working as a foreman in the shops. One night as I was going
home, some man stopped and said “Who are you. I answered “H.B. Holloway.
Then they said, “Well we’ll be over to your house tonight to whip you.”
I said, “We growed up together and you could n’t whip me then.
How you s’pect to do it now. You might kill me, but you can’t beat
me.”
	And one of them said, “Well we’ll be over to see you at eleven thirty
Tonight, and we are going to beat you.”
	I went on home and told my wife what had happened. She was a-

This information from    H.B. Holloway                               Age 89
1524 Valentine St., Little Rock, Ark.             Former railroader & Drayman