Ex~~ ~1~tve Storl es	P~g Ssven	31
(Texas)






	“Du‘ s ~ old. mal name Uncle Bart what live ‘bxit half mile froa us • De Klu Klux e xne t o u~s house one nicht ‚ but my daddy d.one hid • Den I he~ dem say dey gwlne go kill old man Bart~ I jump out de window ~nd cut short cut through dem wood ~nd warn him. Re git out de house in tii~e and I save ~ie lifte D ftlflfly thing, I knowed ~ll dem flu flux. Spite dey sheets and. things, I knowed dey voicee aad dey $addle liosses.

	“Dsy One white man nwae Irving Reasey. Us pleq ftddle together

lots of time, When de white boys dance dey allus wants me to go to plq for

dey party. One day I say to dat boy, ‘I done knowed. yau. last night.‘ Re

8a7 ‚ ~ That 3FCt1 mean? ‚ I say, ‚ You one dem Klu Klux. ‚ He wa*t t o know how

I kiow. I say, ‘Meaber whei you go under de chest*ut tr~ ~d say, ~Whoa,

Sont, 1~1Oa, Sont, to your hose?‘ He say, ‘Tes,‘ and. I laxigh and. say, ‘Will, I ~ right up in dat tres. ‚ Dey all kn~wed I knowed dem ds*, but I never

told. on des. ‘4he* dey seed. I ain‘t gwtaster tell, dey never try whip my daddy or kill Uacle Bart no more.

	tu ai*‘t never been to school but I jee‘ picked up rsadta‘. With some my first mosey I ever earn I l4uy me a old blue—back Webster. I carry dat book wherever I goes, When I plows down a row I stop at de end to rest and den I overlook di lesson, I •œeaber one do very first lessons was, ‘Evil c*sauitications ‘ru~pte good morals,‘ I knowed de words ‘evil‘ arid

‘good‘ and a white mai ~ splala de others. I been done use dat lesson ~ll

J&y hf..

	“After us left de Paool•t Rivsr us stay in Atlanta a little while and den I go ort to Loutsiaza. I don. 1sf‘ Spartaaburg completely