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They tried to excite (incite) the colored against their white frienda, The white folks was 8t111 kind to them what had been their slaves0 They would have helped them get started. I know that. I always say that if the south could of been left to adjust itself, both white and colored would been better off.

	Now about this votinß business. I ~ess you don‘t find any colored folks what think they get a fair deal. I don‘t, either. I don‘t think it is right that any t~x payer should be deprived of the right to vote. Why, lady, even my children that pay poll tax can‘t vote. One of ray daughters is a teacher In the public school. She tells me they send out notices that if teachers don‘t pay a poll tax they may lose their place. &~t still they can‘t use it and vote in the primary. My husband always believed in usin€ your voting privilege. He has been dead over 30 years. He had‘been appointed on the Grand fury; had bought a new suit of clothes for that. He died on the day he was to go, so we used his new suit to bury him in. I have been getting his soldier‘s pension ever since. Yes xna‘am, I have not had it hard like lots of ex-slaves.

	Before you go I‘d like you to look at the bedspread I knit last year. My dau~iters was trying. to learn to knit. This craze for knitting has got everybody, it looks like. I heard them fus.. sing about they could not cast on the stitches. 9~or land‘s sakes,w I said, “hand rue them needles.“ So I fussed around a little, and it all caine back. That‘s funny about it is, I had not knitted a stitch since I was about ten. Old mistress used to make me knit socks for the soldiers, I remember I knit ten pair out of coarse yarn,