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	“I remember getting one whipping. I didn‘t get lt from Mr. Goodwiu though. Eis brother gave it to me. His brother sent rae to get a hor3e. An old hound was 1ayin~ in the way on the saddle and the bridle ~ He wouldn ‚ t move so I picked up the bridle and hit hirn with it. He hollered and maater‘s brother heard him and gave me a whipping. That is the only whipping I ever ~ot when I was small.


Ku Klux

	1?1 heard of the Ku Klux Klan but I don‘t know that I ever seen theni. I never noticed what effect they had on the colored people. I just. heard

people ta1kin~ about the~n.

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Occupational ]~xperieneea

	“The first work I did was farming..—after the War. I farmed ‚ --~down close to El Dorado, about six miles away from there. I kept that up till I was about seventeen or eighteen years old or sorriewheres about there. That was on ~Tarries Goodwin‘8 place-~mny last master, the man who raised me. Then I left hirn and came to Little Rock. I don‘t remember in what year, I went to school here in Little Rock. I had already had some schooling. My grand~ mother sent me. The school I went to was called the Union school. It was down on Sixth street. A1~ter I left there, I went to Capitol Hill School. I was going to school during the Brooks—Baxter War~ The statehouse was on Liarkhen~ Street and Center. My grandmother‘ e • naxae was Celie Robinson. She went by the naine of her owner.

	“After I had gone to school several years—-I don‘ t remember just how many.--~I worked down town about ten or eleven years. Then I went to railroading. First I was with the Iron Mountain and Southern,