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1\T~1:E OF WORJ~R-~-~Samue1 S, Taylor ÂDDRESS--~Little Rock, Arkansas D~T~--December, 1938. sUBJECT--1~x—Slave

rw~ ~ND ADDRESS Op IN~DR.Ma~~ Watson, 1500 Cross Street, Lit-tie Rock.


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	~he co natarit reiteration o f the phrase ‚ „ I ‘ni no t an ex—slave“ roused. my curiosity and. drove me to a s~iperficial investigation. Persons who are acquainted with her arid. he r family estimate that M~ry watson is nearer eighty than seventy. She started her story pleasantly enough. Bwt when she got the obsession that she would be put down as an ex-slave, she re— fused to tell more.

	There is one thing not to be ove rlooked.. Mary Wat son has a mind that is still keen. She tells what she wants to tell, arul she doesn‘t state a thing that she does not want to state. The .h1dd~i facts are to be dis— cemed only by su.btle inference. Thi s trait intere sted me1 10 r her younger brothe r ‚ ment loned. in tbe story, is a dist1ng~iished character ‚ President of Bu.st College, Uoliy Springs, Mississippi, and. known to be.experienced arid. efficient in his ~&ork. Whatever she may have reserved or stat&., in reading her story, we are reading at least a sid(‘light on a family of which soute of the xr~rnbers have done some fine work within the race.