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ALICE GREEN
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Alice Green‘s address led to a tumble down shack set in a sniall yard which was enclosed by a sagging poultry wire fence. The gate, off its hinges, was propped across the entrance.


The call, “Alice~“ brought the prompt response, “Here I is. sus‘ push de gate down and come on in.“ When a little rat terrier ran barking out of the house to challenge the visitor, Alice hobbled to the door. “Come back here and be-have yourself“ she addressed the dog, and. turning to the interviewer, she said:

“Lady, dat dog won‘t bite nothin‘ but somepin‘ t‘eat ~ when he kin git it.“ Don‘t pay him no ‘tention. Won‘t you come in and have a seat?“


Alice has a light brown complexion and bright blue eyes. She a
wore a soiled print dress, and/dingy stocking cap partly con~

cealed her white hair. Boards were laid. across the seat of what had been a cane-‘bottomed chair, in which she eat and rocked.


Asked if she would talk of her early Life the old Negress replied:

“Good Lords Honey, I done forgot all I ever knowed ‘bout dem days. I was born in Clarke County. Milly and Charley Green was ray mammy and peppy and d~ey b‘longed to Marse Daniel Miller. Mammy, she was born and raised in Clarke County but my pappy, he come from south-s west Georgia. I done forgot de town whar he was brung up. Dere