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Interviewer

Person interviewed

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Mrs.	Bernice Bowden Marthala Grant

2203 L ~BaI~3?i~i, PineBluff, ~rkansas






	“All I can remember is us, xiie and my baby brother. clothes. Me and my brother

us up and throwed us up and ketched us.

	“My mother would tell us bout the war. She had on some old shoe8 —~ wooden shoes0 Her white folks name was Hines. That was in North Carolina. I emigrated here when they was emigratin‘ Thlks here. I was grown then.

	“Thirth‘ the war I heered the shootin‘ and the people clappin‘ their hands,

	“My mother said they was fi~htin‘ to free the people but I didn‘t know what freedom was. I member hearin‘ em whoopin‘ and hollerin‘ when peace was ‘dared and talkin‘ bout it.

	“Yea‘m I went to school some —~ not much. I learned a right smart to read but not much writin‘.

	“we‘d go up to the white folks house every &inday evenin‘ and old mistress would learn us our catechism. ~ie‘d have to comb our heads and clean up and go up every Sunday i‘ . ~he ‚ d line us up and learn US our catechi~n.

	Wde stayed r1g~it on there after the war. They paid my mother. I picked cotton and missed babies and washed dishes.
some men throwin‘ us up in the air and ketchin‘ Like to scared me to death. They had on funny was out in the yard ay‘ . They just grabbed