“Mazan~. said the Ku Klux was against the Catholics, but not against the Negroes. The Nightriders would turn out at night. They were also called the Know—Nothings, that‘s what they always said. They were the saine as the Night.. riders. One night, the Nightriders in Louisville surrounded a block of build-. Inge occupied by Catholic people. They permitted the warnen and children to cape, but killed all the men. When they found out the men were putting on warnen‘ ~ clothes ‚ they killed everything, women and children, too ~ It was terrible. That must have been about eighty years ago, when I was a very little girl.

	“There was no school for Negro children d~iring slavery, btvt they have schools in Louisville, now, and they‘re doing fine.

	01 had two little girls. One died when ehe was three years old, the

when she was thirteen. I had two children I adopted. One died just be— she was to graduate fran Scott Eigh School.

	“I think Lincoln was a grand maul 11e was the first president I heard Jeff Davis, I think he was tough. ~ He was against the colored people. He no friend of the colored people. Abe Lincoln was a real friend.

	UI biew Booker T . Washington and his wife. I belonged to a society that his wife belonged to. I think it Was called the Nat~.onal Federation of Colored Wcmie~& s . I heard him speak here in Toledo • I think‘ it was in the Methodist church. He wanted the colored people to educate themselves. Lots of them wanted to be teachers and doctors, but he wanted them to have farine. 11e wanted them to get an education end make something of themselves. All the prominent Negro women belonged to the Club. We met once a year. I went to quite a few citlea where the meetings were held: Detroit, Cleveland, and Phuladčlphia.
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