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	“We were savages when ie came over here ~ Kvery~thing we got and everything ie know, good and bad, we got frcm the white fOlk8. Don‘ t know how they can get impatient with ua when everything w do they learnt ua~

	“Roosevelt has done more than any Democrat that has ever been in the Chair. He had to do something to keep down a rebellion. Then we like to

had one as it is through the labor queetion.	~ t

“The P~9~‘ white man always has been in a tight4 He was almost aa much
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oppressed ae the Negro.

	“The young people ot today alu ‚ t got no sense • They don ‚ t give no

thought to nothing. They don ‚ t know how to think at aU. • Ai]. the 3choola and education they give don‘t make them think. If I had as much education as they have ‚ I would be able to acccmplieh soenething. The teachers don‘ t press down on them and make them know what they go over. There is a whol lot of thinga happening now.


Old People in Pulaski County

	“Out in Pulaski County, going west out the Nineteenth Street- Pike till you strike the Saline County line, there are quite a tow old colored people • I gueaa you would find no less than twenty-five or thirty out that way. There is one old i~n n~ed ~uniue Peterson out that way who used to run a mill. 1fb you find him, he is very old and has a good memory. He ie a mulatto. You could get out to him by going down till you c~e to a place that is called the Henderson Lane. You turn to the right and go oft the pike less than a mile and you o~e to a big one-~atory house aettin‘ on a hill where Peterson livéa. Right on beyond that about three—rourthe of a mile on the right side ot the road, you come to George Gregory‘a. The mother of my church is about eighty-one years old but she is over in Saline County. Her name is Taiie Toynsr.