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	Pei‘son interviewed  Mary7ackson Ruaaellville, Ai~kanaa.

	Age  75?





	“My na~ Is ~ry 3ackeon, aM I was born In Miller Grov•, Hunt County, Texas during the lei. No air, I do not know the year. Our maater‘a name was Dixon, and he was a wealthy plantation owner, had loti

of property in Hunt County.

	“The days after the War—called the Reconatruotlon day., I believe.-.

were sure exciting, end I can ‘ntin&‘ a lot ot things the people did~, one of them a big barbecue celebration couinemoratin‘ the return ot peacs. V

~	They had apeeche., and aisle by the band-—and there were a lot of soldieri

carrying guns and wearing s~ kind of big breaetplates. The ~h1te child. ren tried to scare us by telling us the soldiers were ccming to kill us little colored children. The band played ‘Dixie‘ and othsr familiar tunes that the people played and sane in those days.

	*Tes air, I remember tba flu Klux Klan. They surs kept us frightened

and we would always run end hide when we heard they isre orni. I don‘ t know of any special harm they done but we wers afraid of em.

	RI hare bsen a member of the A. M. E. Church for forty years, and my children belong to the same church,

	~No ~fr, I don‘t know if the goier~nt ever pr~ised our folks any— thing—money, or land, or anything sise.

	~n‘t ask me anything about this ‘new generation‘ business. They‘re simply too ‚atch for i; I cannot understand em at aU.