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241œ~Jim Allen, Clay Co.
FEC
Wa. Ed Joiner
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Point since den.

	“I eeed de KuKiux. We would be workin‘. Dein people would be in de fiel‘, an‘ must get home ‘fo dark an‘ ehet de door. Dey wo‘ three cornered white hats with de eyes way up high. Dey skeered de breeches off‘n me. First ones I got tangled up widwas right down here by de cemetery. Dey just wanted to scare you.. Night riders w~s de same thing. I was one of O fellers what broke ‘em up.

/‘~~ .	“Old man Toleson was de head leader of de Negroes. Tryin‘ ~yt,o get Negroes t o go ‘gainai our white people . I spec ‚ he was a two


:1 ~ faced Yankee or carpetbagger.

~We had. club8 all ‘round West Point. Cap‘in Shattuck


out about Palo Alto said to us niggars one day, ‘Stop your foolishness go live among your white folks an‘ behave. Have sense an‘ be good

: citizens.‘ airns advice Was good an‘ we eoon broke up our clubs.
	~‚	„ ..‚	. 9: ain‘t been to no school ‘cept Sunday School since Sur-	J
(4~nder. A good white man I worked with tt&ught me ‘nough to spell



t~ ‘conpreetibility‘ and ‘compastibility.‘ I had good ‘membrance an‘ I tt~ could have learned what white folks taught nie, an‘ dey sees dey manners


~	me.

~i rnar‘ied when I was turnin‘ 19, an‘ niy wife, 15. 1

mar‘ied at big ~sthod1st Chu‘ch in N.•dmore. Same old chu‘ch is dere

nov. ~ I hope build it in i865. Aunt ~nali~is,Robertaon an‘ Vincent Petty an‘ ~ ~