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	Intervlew.r	~isaIrne Robertson

	Person interviewed ~e.a~~‘ai; RJ.D. frL Biaco.. Arkauaaa

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	~I Was born after de war in Alabama. Then we went to Atlanta, Georgia. Bout the tiret I recollect much bout was in Atlanta. I

wae aeventeen years old. They wae Ixtilding the town back up wher it had been burnt. If you waa a carpenter you could get rough work to do. My father wa. a farmer and had a family; soon aa he could he oon~ with a man he mt up wid to Sardie, liesiasippi. He had twelv children. Some of em born down in Mississippi. The reason we aU went to Atlanta wae dia -~ we was workin ter a man, white men, nen*d Arinatrom. White woman told me go do somethin, bring in a load si wood I think it was, end my mother told me not to do it. K. and my father had a fuss an he tied my father to some rails and ~hoop.d him.

Soon as they done that we ail left. They hunted us all night long.

Crowd white folks said they goiner kill us. Some fellow come on to Atlanta and told us bout em huntin us. Thater way folks done. It imister been bout the very closin of the wer cause I heard ~ say I ‘a‘ give to my young mistress, Saille Gray. I don‘t remember who they eay ehe marrlJ I never did live wid em long tore my papa took

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	“The tiret ires school was in PInola County, Mississippi. I went to it. The teacher wae a white ~n nenw,d George Holllday.