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1VLD_int_011.1270Okay.1.5654
3 2.2555So,2.7264 
5 2.8197tell me a little bit about4.7536 
7 6.2691growing up in Valdosta. You grew up, you said, in South Street.9.0017 
8VLD_se0_ag4_f_029.3747[Yeah.]9.6853
9VLD_int_019.3747[Can] you describe your house for me?10.7783
10VLD_se0_ag4_f_0211.7097We had a small house at first, and then we moved15.0204
12 15.4354to a larger house16.6850 
14 16.9042on South Street. /RD-ADDRESS-5/19.2811 
16 20.1717And we was about a block from my22.5265 
18 23.0383elementary school, which was South Street Elementary School.26.4841 
20 27.3733Walking distance.28.6696 
22 29.7047So, we went there30.6839 
24 30.8145I went to-31.3787 
26 31.6492there for, until I was seventh grade.34.8787 
28 35.5129Then we had36.4221 
30 36.5049go36.7380 
32 36.8313to /RD-SCHOOL-4/38.4540 
34 38.5286over on39.0788 
36 39.3866Troop Street.40.2352 
38 41.8346We walked there because there was no busses but we were close enough to walk to school.47.0745 
40 47.2331But some people didn't. They had to come from way cross town and50.5006 
42 50.9156Tom Town and everywhere, you know52.9486 
44 53.1305back over here.54.0025 
46 54.3430We only had two55.3922 
48 56.0264elementary school. That was Magnolia58.1748 
50 58.3846and South Street.59.4431 
51VLD_int_0160.2824And neither of them are61.3036
53 61.6114still.62.1709 
54VLD_se0_ag4_f_0262.7631No.63.1511
55VLD_int_0163.1511/Uh/.63.3423
57 63.7200[I've never] heard of South S-64.7458 
58VLD_se0_ag4_f_0263.8179[No.]64.0510
59VLD_int_0164.8904South65.3240
61 65.4546[Street School.]66.2100 
62VLD_se0_ag4_f_0265.4639[Mm-hm.]65.9115
63 66.3452Where I lived, So-67.0260
65 67.4223South Street. Where the- where the south69.2344 
67 70.0224where'd you go down there, /over there/ Pineview?72.1580 
68VLD_int_0172.8341Mm-hm.73.3750
69VLD_se0_ag4_f_0273.4403That's was South Street74.7354
71 75.8032campus.76.5213 
73 76.8990They tore it down78.0881 
75 79.2911and put79.7469 
77 79.9054e-80.0547 
79 80.4836that school there.81.4255 
80VLD_int_0181.7240Oh.82.1436
81VLD_se0_ag4_f_0282.2182[Mm-hm.]82.6705
82VLD_int_0182.2695[Okay.]82.6705
83 83.2161And,83.8922
85 84.0041when you started going to schools, was it segregated?86.1819 
86VLD_se0_ag4_f_0286.8627Yes.87.8559
88 88.6719We didn't know anything about the other side of town. (laughing)91.3993 
90 91.7863Well,92.0987 
92 92.5137what the white folks did. <laugh>94.7900 
94 95.5286And we always had to get handy downs.98.1426 
96 98.6135You know, they would have the best100.4449 
98 100.5195books,101.3682 
100 102.3287desks,103.2986 
102 103.9887any kind of equipment. And we got 'em when they106.4869 
104 106.9485was getting new ones.108.2728 
105VLD_int_01108.3614[Mm.]108.6505
106VLD_se0_ag4_f_02108.5525[So,] we was able to get109.7742
107 109.9281their books. And now, we never had new books112.4216
109 112.6641even through high school.113.9930 
111 115.2566finished /RD-SCHOOL-4/ in nineteen117.6980 
113 118.7518fifty-four.119.9175 
115 120.5890Still,121.2791 
117 121.4936had no122.2058 
119 123.0358new books. No new nothing.124.8171 
120VLD_int_01126.5423Wow.126.8501
121VLD_se0_ag4_f_02126.9433It was always hand me down.128.5229
122VLD_int_01128.9612Do you feel like you got a good education?130.4254
123VLD_se0_ag4_f_02131.0549I think so, because132.5796
125 133.9505during that time, the teachers was135.8914 
127 136.1666they were black too, you know.137.5374 
129 137.9058So, they always see that we139.8771 
131 140.1475learned140.9822 
133 141.5837and most of 'em knew your parents.143.4115 
135 143.6167So, if they knew your parents, they was gonna get with your parents and talk.146.9542 
137 147.2853It wasn't no such thing as PTA and149.7006 
139 150.3768stuff like that. But, they would just152.0776 
141 152.1895come back cause153.2246 
143 153.5277telephones wasn't in use.154.9732 
145 155.4488[<laugh>]155.7566 
146VLD_int_01155.4488[<laugh>]156.3395
147VLD_se0_ag4_f_02156.4700Telephones wasn't e-157.9053
149 158.2690<laugh>158.6560 
151 159.1585First telephone we had,160.7485 
153 161.2055I think we had to put a quarter in it or something on the wall164.4369 
155 164.8565to use it.165.6574 
157 166.3429And that was real rare.167.6904 
159 167.7790You was a-168.1894 
161 168.3759you was something if you had a telephone. <laugh>170.7633 
162VLD_int_01171.3497<laugh>171.7040
164 171.9838Now, how many of i- wa- how many were there? Were there- you. How many brothers and [sisters was it?]175.8354 
165VLD_se0_ag4_f_02175.5789[I had] six. Three girls and three boys.178.0584
166VLD_int_01178.5993And y'all all [lived in the-]179.5086
167VLD_se0_ag4_f_02179.1495[All lived] in same house.180.8935
168 181.5043See, it wasn't no everybody had they own room.183.9279
170 184.3708We had184.7672 
172 184.9537thr-185.1076 
174 185.2661two bedroom.186.1474 
176 186.5484The girls had a bedroom, the boys had a bedroom,188.9813 
178 189.2517and your parents had a bedroom.190.6926 
180 191.2475But, that was about it.192.2127 
182 193.4996We shared everything.194.7120 
183VLD_int_01195.1958And what195.5595
185 195.6854number are you?196.3755 
186VLD_se0_ag4_f_02197.6158Mm.198.4971
188 199.0660I'm the199.6115 
190 201.9605Fourth one.202.4921 
191VLD_int_01202.7532You're the [fourth.]203.4008
192VLD_se0_ag4_f_02203.3221[Yeah.]203.6345
193VLD_int_01203.7231[Okay.]204.0961
194VLD_se0_ag4_f_02203.8396[Mm-hm.]204.2080
195 204.3199Yeah. [Four.]204.7582
196VLD_int_01204.6696[So,] did you. You didn't have-205.6349
197 205.7608you didn't have as much responsibility because you weren't the oldest,208.1220
199 208.2339but you weren't the baby either.209.1711 
200VLD_se0_ag4_f_02209.2364No.209.6841
202 209.7913But, we all shared everything. Everybody had to212.1880 
204 212.2906do something.212.9341 
205VLD_int_01213.7117So, what was your chores? Or what was your responsibility in the house?216.7472
206VLD_se0_ag4_f_02216.0004<ts>216.0986
207 216.9990Well, we all had to218.2440
209 218.4958clean up the kitchen. We had a w-220.0194 
211 220.3598uh,220.7934 
213 221.8379a week a piece to222.6912 
215 222.8778clean the kitchen.223.7777 
217 224.9061And one, um,226.1267 
219 226.4810my oldest sister, I think, she used to iron, but we all help washed.230.5098 
221 231.0740Cause it wasn't no washing machines inside. You [had the rub] bowls and234.8451 
222VLD_int_01233.4463[<laugh>]234.0851
223VLD_se0_ag4_f_02236.7989Had three tubs.238.0651
225 238.2842<laugh>238.6073 
227 239.2601A ru- a rub bowl tub and then241.3603 
228VLD_int_01239.4040[/inaudible/]239.6698
229VLD_se0_ag4_f_02241.4452two wrenching tubs, you hung them out243.3337
231 244.0284and even they had those old245.4693 
233 245.6791big245.9589 
235 246.2993pots, you know, people used to ball clothes. A-248.8295 
237 249.0393I don't know why.249.8973 
239 250.1444But, they did.250.9045 
241 251.4360Cause I thought they were tearing them up, balling them.253.5805 
242VLD_int_01253.7111[Hm.]254.2053
243VLD_se0_ag4_f_02253.9431[<laugh>]254.8244
244VLD_int_01254.6285[To make] the water real [high?]255.7056
245VLD_se0_ag4_f_02255.6077[Uh-huh.]256.3584
246 256.4937Mm-hm.256.8760
247VLD_int_01256.8993Oh, like the [cauldron?]257.8925
248VLD_se0_ag4_f_02257.6827[Yeah.]258.2096
249VLD_int_01258.3588And they would258.7785
250VLD_se0_ag4_f_02260.1074I s- It was something like a261.3699
252 261.4865kettle.261.9201 
254 262.0973A big old262.9040 
256 263.7200iron pot.264.4801 
257VLD_int_01264.5966Mm-hm.264.9976
258VLD_se0_ag4_f_02265.0816And they265.4126
260 265.4919put that water in and then put fire up under.267.7616 
262 269.5428And had a s-270.1630 
264 270.3122something called a balance stick they keep jugging in there (laughing). <laugh>274.0181 
266 274.9600[I-]275.1092 
267VLD_int_01274.9600[But] y'all didn't do that?275.8086
268VLD_se0_ag4_f_02275.9298No.276.3215
270 276.6759Mm-mm.277.0489 
271VLD_int_01277.1702And your clothes was just fine?278.2846
272VLD_se0_ag4_f_02278.4152Just [fine.]278.9654
273VLD_int_01278.8442[And] then you hung them up on the [line?]280.2512
274VLD_se0_ag4_f_02280.1113[A line.]280.8014
275 280.9786Mm-hm.281.2817
276VLD_int_01281.6314So,282.3309
278 283.4733going back to school, what was your284.5178 
280 284.6230favorite subject and who was your favorite teacher?286.6719 
281VLD_se0_ag4_f_02288.2796Mm.288.7039
283 290.2566Okay, I’m’a go back that far.291.5789 
284VLD_int_01291.6348<laugh>292.8798
285VLD_se0_ag4_f_02294.2869Mm.294.4501
287 294.8371Well, I had one teacher. Ms. /RD-NAME-2/.297.3551 
289 298.3145/RD-NAME-4/.299.6714 
291 300.2076She was my third grade teacher.302.0122 
293 302.8049She was always just so.304.0685 
295 304.3949She had no children, and she likeded all children.307.3155 
297 307.3854You know how she just308.4905 
299 308.5978was just a mother-like309.7064 
301 309.8649[teacher.]310.3359 
302VLD_int_01310.0090[Mm.]310.2833
303VLD_se0_ag4_f_02310.8155I remember that in311.9726
305 312.0845third grade.312.9611 
307 316.7229And when I got to high school,318.4342 
309 319.7724Mrs./RD-NAME-2/.321.1620 
311 322.0826/She/ lived on Magnolia Street.323.7441 
313 324.8072She was our325.4787 
315 325.6652third grade teacher. She was strict.327.4546 
317 327.5152But, if you328.6017 
319 329.2218would get her lesson, you would pass. You know?331.6605 
320VLD_int_01331.7417[Mm-hm.332.0290
321VLD_se0_ag4_f_02331.8890[You] had to study.332.8309
322 333.0128And she see that you study,334.5970
324 335.3804And my335.7814 
326 335.9632a- other teacher was my English teacher. Ms. /RD-NAME-5/.339.0781 
328 340.9934And.341.4177 
330 341.9493She was struck.342.8259 
332 343.4367But, she was a good. [<laugh>]345.9498 
333VLD_int_01344.1735[<laugh>]345.9498
334VLD_se0_ag4_f_02347.0583Uh-huh.347.5432
336 348.7043Yeah. So,349.5576 
338 350.2920that's about it about that school, I think.352.4742 
340 352.6701Just put it right [together] right now.354.4140 
341VLD_int_01353.6400[/Together/.]353.9884
342 354.6705Did you, um, so, going back356.1441
344 356.3772to your neighborhood, did you play outside a lot, or were y'all in the house a lot?359.6261 
345VLD_se0_ag4_f_02359.6727Oh no. You always played outside. That's one thing. When you, get through eating breakfast in the morning, the f-364.9892
347 365.2736t- cleaning or whatever you had to do, you had to go outside and play.368.6437 
349 369.4131And you only came in when they call you.371.4450 
351 372.0092So, you made your own toys.373.8837 
353 374.2474Whatever you was gonna play with (laughing). <laugh>376.4949 
355 377.0964And.377.3657 
357 377.4823Uh.377.9113 
359 378.0232We had a little neighborhood where379.6272 
361 380.8535everybody had children.382.3410 
363 382.4296So, we h- had a baseball game384.6247 
365 384.7646in the middle of the road, South Street.386.8256 
367 387.4970Cars had-388.1172 
369 388.5135Well, it wasn't too many cars back then [no way.]390.9651 
370VLD_int_01390.5920[Right.]390.8299
371VLD_se0_ag4_f_02391.2682So, everybody played in the streets.393.3152
373 394.1498So.394.4762 
375 395.5476Yeah, we had a396.0791 
377 396.1724pretty good396.6993 
379 397.3474neighborhoods. And people398.7696 
381 399.0307got-399.3059 
383 399.4411got along together.400.6255 
385 401.2130We'd fight, some of 'em fight, but the next day, they right back together. It wasn't [like the people holding] grudges like they do now.407.7237 
386VLD_int_01405.0826[<laugh>]406.1276
387VLD_se0_ag4_f_02407.8403<laugh>408.2227
388VLD_int_01409.1366Was it a lot of crime?410.5048
389VLD_se0_ag4_f_02411.0551No.411.5353
391 411.8804No, you didn't he- ever hear about crime.414.0522 
393 414.5744Mm-mm.415.0360 
394VLD_int_01416.1365Did you-416.4815
396 417.3768<ts>417.4747 
398 417.6706I don't know when they actually started, but like, the newspaper. Did y'all get a like a newspaper every day- did [the.]422.2301 
399VLD_se0_ag4_f_02422.0751[Oh.] No.423.0077
400VLD_int_01423.0916[No.]423.2688
401VLD_se0_ag4_f_02423.1616[Mm.] What is a newspaper? (laughing) We didn't know what that- what that was.426.6203
402VLD_int_01426.8301Oh, really?427.4410
403VLD_se0_ag4_f_02427.4736Mm-mm.427.9586
404VLD_int_01427.9586What about the milk man?429.0637
405VLD_se0_ag4_f_02429.5719Yeah we used to have a milk man.431.2634
407 431.3473He used to come.432.2007 
409 432.8674Vallotton Dairy, that was the milk434.5274 
411 434.6767company, cause I think we just only had one.437.1608 
413 439.2918Yeah, cause one of my brothers, when he got about fourteen,442.6666 
415 443.0862he started working on the milk444.6576 
417 445.1239truck.445.4550 
419 445.7767Had to get up four o'clock in the morning to448.0492 
421 449.0050go get the milk out I guess before everybody got451.4904 
423 451.6711up and452.2353 
425 452.5664out of the street.453.3124 
427 453.7414Mm-hm.454.0678 
428VLD_int_01454.5667And so, they would deliver the455.9003
430 456.2594what would they456.6744 
432 456.7490like, they would [deliver it in a-]457.5460 
433VLD_se0_ag4_f_02457.1045[In a jar.]457.8445
434VLD_int_01458.2455The [jar.]458.7351
435VLD_se0_ag4_f_02458.4600[They] was in jars, see.459.8712
436 460.1743Mm-hm.460.5566
437VLD_int_01461.0218And you just paid every462.3507
439 462.5232time? Or like, you paid like for the week? How did?464.7661 
440VLD_se0_ag4_f_02465.1857That- we paid about a m-466.3981
442 467.8477I believe they paid about a month.469.6196 
443VLD_int_01471.2469And they would deliver it every day?472.3800
444VLD_se0_ag4_f_02472.9524No.473.4047
446 473.4886Three times a week.474.6031 
447VLD_int_01474.8549Okay.475.1626
448VLD_se0_ag4_f_02475.1626Mm-hm.475.5450
449 475.9040Yeah.476.1698
450VLD_int_01476.8739What grocery stores did you guys have?478.4966
451VLD_se0_ag4_f_02479.9782<ts> We had two481.0973
453 481.1673down here on Lee Street. Mrs.483.3029 
455 483.6200/RD-NAME-4/484.7251 
457 485.6425Eli Power,486.8595 
459 488.7014and /Hender Buckles/, right there on that corner there.491.3898 
461 491.5204That was the neighborhoods.492.5649 
463 492.8959Oh this,493.3949 
465 493.6886I-493.8332 
467 493.9591place over here, and was Copeland495.4780 
469 495.7765Grocery Store.496.5925 
471 498.4903Yeah.498.7188 
472VLD_int_01499.1244But that was only on499.9684
474 500.1643For this side of [town?]501.1340 
475VLD_se0_ag4_f_02500.9838[Yeah.]501.2542
476 501.7671Mm-hm.502.1635
477VLD_int_01502.5319So,503.1427
479 503.4178at what point-504.3178 
481 504.8633Mm-mm.505.1058 
483 505.2550Let's go to beauty. So, how did you decide to leave507.3615 
485 507.9070Valdosta?508.4573 
486VLD_se0_ag4_f_02509.0914Well, I got married right after510.5882
488 510.7701finished high school. Nine,512.3741 
490 513.0630ten months after I finished high school, I got married.515.7162 
492 516.6302My husband and I moved to518.1316 
494 518.2948Tampa.518.8952 
495VLD_int_01522.3830And wha- why did you move to Ta- wha-523.8425
497 523.9451What made you move to.524.8206 
498VLD_se0_ag4_f_02525.1796[Well, that's where] he had a job.526.9296
499VLD_int_01525.1796[/did he/ want-]525.8184
500 526.9842[Oh okay.]527.3665
501VLD_se0_ag4_f_02527.2220[In] Tampa, so we moved to Tampa.529.1198
502VLD_int_01529.4555Okay. So, [tell me] about530.5932
503VLD_se0_ag4_f_02529.9684[Mm-hm.]530.2762
504VLD_int_01530.6679Tampa.531.0957
505VLD_se0_ag4_f_02532.3453Oh.533.2453
507 534.3737Now, Tampa. When I got to Tampa, I start having children, so (laughing).538.5179 
508VLD_int_01538.6018<laugh>540.4716
509VLD_se0_ag4_f_02540.9706<laugh>541.2550
511 541.6840They just two years apart, and543.5993 
513 543.7438and the last two, just thirteen months apart.546.3784 
515 547.1104So, I-547.5907 
517 547.7353I was just a housewife.549.0491 
519 550.6717But, I did go to, um,552.4110 
521 552.6908I g- m- started working at the coffee shop at /RD-WORK-4/.556.0516 
523 557.1054I worked there a little.557.8888 
525 558.2198About558.4903 
527 558.8586eight or nine months.560.1596 
529 561.8930That's the only562.5085 
531 562.7137job I ever had there down in Tampa (laughing).565.0778 
533 565.7912Cause I tried a maid job one time, but I wasn't never a maid.569.2872 
534VLD_int_01569.4365[Mm-mm.]569.7722
535VLD_se0_ag4_f_02569.6276[I] couldn't-570.1079
536 570.5835I couldn't tell you571.2690
538 572.3694stand and help and573.3102 
540 573.3848tell you how to do574.1821 
542 574.2941things, you know. <laugh>575.6696 
543VLD_int_01575.8934That wasn't your calling?576.7281
544VLD_se0_ag4_f_02576.7281No, I- I couldn't be no maid, so579.1548
545 579.6071I didn't do that.580.3298
547 580.6189But, you know, I always did hair.582.2871 
549 583.5414So, when I-584.2735 
551 584.7677even in high school,585.9288 
553 586.4324I used to do587.0246 
555 587.5375um,588.1985 
557 589.0751the students' hair.590.1569 
559 590.4367in school at South Street, if they come to school in all kind of old braids in there, I take it loose595.3968 
561 595.7979and make 'em596.2968 
563 596.3807pony tails.597.2434 
565 597.5651You know.597.9568 
567 598.3205They go home and get a beating because they done took their hair loose.601.0798 
569 601.1684<laugh>601.7989 
570VLD_int_01601.9331[<laugh>]605.0945
571VLD_se0_ag4_f_02601.9382[Back then, you had to look like you left home.]604.5956
572 605.7695But,606.0353
574 606.2824we was go in the basement. They had a basement608.8710 
576 609.0055in /RD-SCHOOL-2/.609.9381 
578 610.3158Go down there, and I make 'em all a pony tail, and I think I was in the fourth grade.614.2710 
580 615.7958When I really started messing with hair.617.8323 
581VLD_int_01617.8447Mm-hm.618.1950
582VLD_se0_ag4_f_02618.2660Mm-hm.618.7509
584 619.2312And about time I got in high school,621.6093 
586 622.1922I had customers623.6458 
588 624.3080come on F-624.8955 
590 626.3083Friday evenings and Saturday mornings and get they little hair done.630.0841 
592 631.4970I had three old ladies I used to do their hair633.8611 
594 634.1828/at/ once a month, that's all I could do. <laugh>636.7522 
595VLD_int_01637.0087And how much would you [charge?]637.9972
596VLD_se0_ag4_f_02637.7250[Fifty] cents.639.2329
597VLD_int_01639.2702Fifty cents.640.0909
598VLD_se0_ag4_f_02640.1515Yeah, if I made two dollars that week, I was making some money.643.4855
599VLD_int_01644.4834<ts> So wha- two dollars. Put that in context. What was two dollars like today, what would that be?648.2370
600VLD_se0_ag4_f_02648.3862Oh. Goodn-649.0658
601VLD_int_01649.4575[You was]649.7839
602VLD_se0_ag4_f_02649.5368I-649.6813
603VLD_int_01649.8772making good money.650.5954
604VLD_se0_ag4_f_02650.4974Mm, uh-huh. And that'd have been651.4859
605 651.5978two hundred dollars almost, you know?653.8593
607 653.9479To now.654.4002 
608VLD_int_01654.6881[Mm-hm.]655.5788
609VLD_se0_ag4_f_02655.1638[Mm-hm] cause655.9798
610 656.6186everything was657.7237
612 658.5490ten, fifteen cent, you know.660.4655 
614 661.1265But.661.2990 
615VLD_int_01662.6046And so, you started doing hair, then you started getting customers. So, what made say you know, what, I’m’a go to666.4142
617 666.5308I’m’a go to beauty school and667.8984 
619 668.3740instead of working at the coffee shop, and you [know that] you weren't gonna be a maid.670.9727 
620VLD_se0_ag4_f_02670.0214[Mm.]670.2453
622 670.9727Mm-hm.671.5322 
623 672.1990So, I-672.5755
625 672.7014that made me go to school, so I-674.2076 
627 674.3335I-674.4827 
629 674.6832I did hair a while, when I got back here677.1032 
631 677.5042cause I, when I678.1291 
633 678.2363first got here, I moved679.3127 
635 679.6344uh, my daddy moved me in the project681.6955 
637 682.2037cause they didn't have a house.683.4720 
639 684.5389I stayed out there eight months685.9937 
641 686.5159before I moved here.687.6945 
642VLD_int_01687.8344Mm-hm.688.1981
643VLD_se0_ag4_f_02689.7135And then I babysit for my sisters.692.4180
645 692.9811Yeah, one had four children, the other had695.1400 
647 695.5457two.695.9327 
649 696.8405Yeah, so I babysit for them for eight months out there in the project.700.2307 
651 700.4266Cause they were working701.5410 
653 702.3104and I wasn't working.703.5367 
655 705.9929Then when I moved here in sixty-one.709.4528 
657 710.1289Sixty-two,710.9578 
659 712.4639I went to Pinevale713.6669 
661 714.5435Beauty School. I-715.4435 
663 715.8631Cause I was doing hair, you know, in the kitchen, and you know how people would718.9934 
665 719.4186during that time they would turn you up. The licensed beauticians would723.4893 
667 723.8577if uh,724.3426 
669 724.5152the state people came about726.1192 
670VLD_int_01726.2358[Mm-hm.]726.5668
671VLD_se0_ag4_f_02726.3011[and they]726.5855
672 726.7813knew somebody was doing hair at the house, they would729.4287
674 730.2354you know, report you.731.2612 
676 732.2078And so,732.9306 
678 733.3735I-733.8212 
680 734.2128they734.3621 
682 734.6220did report me one time.736.3287 
684 737.3358And I knew the lady done it. This beauty shop down there.740.3523 
686 740.5854<laugh>740.8139 
688 741.6299So, I742.0671 
690 742.1557start going to school, so it took uh, e-744.0954 
692 744.2819eighteen months, mm,745.3964 
694 745.4896two years746.3476 
696 746.4502to finish.747.1123 
698 747.3828So, I finished it in748.2396 
700 748.4401sixty-one,749.8856 
702 750.7902sixty-two.751.5456 
703VLD_int_01751.8394Mm-hm.752.2497
704VLD_se0_ag4_f_02752.3523Mm-hm.752.7486
706 755.3727And I've been r- here ever since.757.2145 
707VLD_int_01757.2472Did you-757.5363
709 757.7741but you didn't start with your own shop, you started working at759.8397 
711 760.1728the lady's shop? Or you started your own shop [right away?]762.3801 
712VLD_se0_ag4_f_02761.8205[I started] my own shop.763.4619
713VLD_int_01764.0110In sixty-two?764.8736
714VLD_se0_ag4_f_02764.9435Mm-hm.765.4098
715VLD_int_01766.4403In this same shop right [now?]767.5734
716VLD_se0_ag4_f_02767.3916[<ts>]767.5175
717 767.6107This same shop right here, this house,769.5785
719 769.6519this shop wasn't built on here, this house was just straight773.2983 
721 774.1982back then.774.7858 
723 775.3500So, oh, uh.776.5845 
725 778.9999I think it was Mr. Scott. He had780.7998 
727 781.4759this781.6939 
729 782.1135uh,782.5099 
731 782.5752cottoners were coming, they783.8062 
733 784.0067added this here shop. He said785.6340 
735 786.0164I di-786.2962 
737 786.3856Cause this was a driveway. Like,788.1369 
738VLD_int_01788.3280Mm-hm.788.7710
739VLD_se0_ag4_f_02789.1487so, he said, you can put a shop there.791.1258
741 791.8579So, they ma-792.4361 
743 792.5666they built this shop here.793.9768 
745 794.1540Two old mens.795.4503 
747 795.9306It wasn't never fixed like it's supposed to be, cause798.4194 
749 798.5587old timey799.2914 
751 799.9520uh, carpenters, you know they didn't measure nothing. They just fit it. [<laugh>]803.7341 
752VLD_int_01803.0103[<laugh>]804.4558
753VLD_se0_ag4_f_02804.5735So,804.9034
755 805.2112it got burned in806.5121 
757 807.2943in seve-808.0917 
759 808.3295two thou-808.8611 
761 809.1968ninet-809.5978 
763 809.9289when was it? Two thou-810.9407 
765 812.9633Nineteen seventy-nine.814.6979 
767 815.2015It got burned.816.1294 
769 817.1739And um,817.8407 
771 818.2778I had to have it redone over820.2129 
773 821.5652and the carpenters that822.5677 
775 822.8708got there. And they say well,824.3256 
777 824.7534I just don't see how you stayed in tha- in this little place all this long time.829.2904 
779 829.6495Nothing was measured or fi- <laugh>832.0497 
781 832.5113but, they fixed it. You know, [like it is now.]834.9361 
782VLD_int_01833.8030[Right. Mm-hm.]834.6236
783VLD_se0_ag4_f_02835.6926So,836.1916
785 836.6532that's about837.1836 
787 837.3048cause I got.837.8691 
789 838.6058My838.8203 
791 838.9555shop caught on fire. That's what happened.841.0025 
793 842.3734I left the TV on, and I went in-844.4379 
795 844.5778in the kitchen845.3612 
797 845.5430for lunch,846.1632 
799 846.4290and when I come back,847.5341 
801 847.6833a whole wall was burning down.849.7385 
803 850.5032So, he say I had a electric shortage up in the attic or something, and854.6112 
805 855.1836it was855.5426 
807 855.6685burning all the time, but I just didn't know it.857.8881 
808VLD_int_01858.1865Until it858.5947
810 858.7346just [really caught on fire?]859.7977 
811VLD_se0_ag4_f_02859.1309[Mm-hm. So,] I stayed out of here about six months, almost before they could get it back. I went down to uh865.0833
812 865.7489Maggie's Beauty Shop and I worked down there.868.0197
814 870.2952And I couldn't wait to get back [home (laughing) cause]872.6209 
815VLD_int_01872.2385[<laugh>]872.6022
816VLD_se0_ag4_f_02873.0685I didn't like the-874.0244
818 874.0990the system like they were doing. Now, they were older than I were.877.5566 
820 878.1430And they was used to that kind of stuff.880.1387 
822 881.1738But uh,881.6028 
824 881.7614I just didn't like it, so uh, a883.5024 
826 883.6236few customers I did have they say, I was glad when you get back home, say we'll wash our own hair, you just do it. (laughing)889.6249 
827VLD_int_01889.7694Mm.890.2917
828VLD_se0_ag4_f_02890.3430But, I said no, so, I finally got back down here.893.2551
830 893.3390Took about six month.894.3882 
832 895.5120<ts>895.6332 
834 896.1648So, I've been here ever since.897.7337 
835VLD_int_01898.0847Now, wha- how did you move- why did you move back to Valdosta?900.2670
836VLD_se0_ag4_f_02901.3674Well, after my husband died.902.9808
837VLD_int_01903.1300So y- ah, okay.904.0801
838VLD_se0_ag4_f_02904.0801My husband died in Tampa.905.7121
839 906.8545And so m-907.3627
841 907.4933I had these908.1601 
843 908.7803four small children, and my daddy, he just didn't want me down there, he912.3835 
845 912.4954thought I was by myself.913.9363 
847 914.2254I probably coulda made it down there, but916.0661 
849 916.9567e-917.0966 
851 917.1992I know didn't think he had a U-Haul to coming down there to get us. <laugh>920.9808 
853 921.4733And already had the projects (laughing)923.3758 
855 924.0799just, you know.924.9332 
856VLD_int_01925.0869Ready [for you. Mm-hm.]926.2201
857VLD_se0_ag4_f_02925.4927[Ready for us.] So,926.5512
858 926.9755I just come on back home, but I think I coulda made it back there.930.0612
860 931.6139<ts>931.6979 
862 931.9683Yeah.932.2061 
863VLD_int_01932.2714And you have932.7564
865 933.0641four kids?933.5386 
866VLD_se0_ag4_f_02933.7158Four kid.934.3779
867VLD_int_01934.3779Two girls, two boys right?935.4504
868VLD_se0_ag4_f_02935.5343Two gir-936.0799
870 936.3690[Three girls and one boy.]937.7632 
871VLD_int_01936.3690[Three girls and one boy.]937.5393
872VLD_se0_ag4_f_02938.0709Mm-hm.938.5652
873VLD_int_01938.7237Um.939.2122
875 939.3008And so, then you moved back here, you moved into this house, [you started] your hair business,943.2456 
876VLD_se0_ag4_f_02941.6466[Mm-hm.]942.0533
877VLD_int_01944.2108So, let's talk about945.1236
879 946.4618let's move to the947.7534 
881 948.3037nineteen sixties, and it's i-949.8378 
883 949.9450it's950.1782 
885 950.3787funny that you have on this shirt. This MLK shirt.952.2427 
886VLD_se0_ag4_f_02952.4665[Mm-hm.]952.9887
887VLD_int_01952.4665[Cause I think it's]953.0494
888 953.1473really interesting954.0845
890 955.0218cause I do-955.3761 
892 955.5254I don't know if I knew like the nineteen thirties, forties, when you [were growing up, like]958.7958 
893VLD_se0_ag4_f_02957.8277[No, you don't.]958.7649
894VLD_int_01958.9287I mean959.3804
896 959.6928and now to come to this point.961.0684 
898 961.3622So, tell me about962.2248 
900 962.3740like, Civil Rights, and kind of how you felt like the impact here in like the South.966.4894 
902 967.2022Like, MLK, and how that seemed to be970.0313 
904 970.7913did it971.0991 
906 971.2296did you feel- did it feel different? Did it start.973.2999 
908 973.8362Did things-974.6930 
910 975.5883Cause I- did y'all have976.2318 
912 976.3996/?/ let me start with this, but, did y'all have the separate water fountains and the separate [entrances?]979.8167 
913VLD_se0_ag4_f_02979.0940[Oh, sure.]979.8261
914 980.0167[Oh, sure.]980.5482
915VLD_int_01980.0671[Okay. So,] tell me a little bit about [like that.]981.7085
916VLD_se0_ag4_f_02981.5266[We had] the982.0116
917 982.3146they called it the983.0980
919 983.3312colored and the white.984.3430 
921 984.8513We were colored folks then.986.4588 
923 986.5754Not black.987.1955 
925 987.3821Color.987.7178 
927 988.5012And they would have a colored fountain and990.4036 
929 991.5833they991.9004 
931 992.0263I can't even remember having a colored994.3286 
933 994.4639bathroom.995.3312 
935 995.8860But they just had996.6368 
937 996.7300color fountains, cause you could go to a filling station999.8903 
939 1000.3659<ts> fill up your car with gas, they had bathroom, but you couldn't go in 'em.1004.4366 
941 1006.7483And stores,1007.9793 
943 1009.1404I remember Walgreens used to be downtown.1011.9155 
945 1012.9355And the black folks had to go in the back1015.0525 
947 1016.0317to the window-1016.6892 
949 1016.9689is the alley1017.8362 
951 1018.0507back there.1018.6511 
953 1019.0288You had to go back there and order from that1020.8800 
955 1021.3323window back there you couldn't go in the restaurant.1023.7803 
956VLD_int_011025.0390Mm.1025.3281
957VLD_se0_ag4_f_021025.3281And,1025.8177
958 1026.1581the1026.3469
960 1026.6198crest,1027.0908 
962 1027.5664downtown, on that corner,1029.0819 
964 1029.7906they had a-1030.4015 
966 1030.7920a little eating fountain,1032.3354 
968 1033.0582you couldn't sit there on those stools1035.1518 
970 1035.5182and1035.7793 
972 1035.8819order nothing.1036.6513 
974 1037.9987it was just prohibited, /they'd say/-1039.3370 
976 1039.4829they had a sign up there some time, White Only.1041.9123 
978 1042.7330And, that mean for you not to sit on.1044.4142 
980 1044.8991So, we had some little young black boys that was in the early-1048.0491 
982 1049.0610when they started the Civil Rights.1050.5742 
984 1051.0032They sat on those stools. They come1053.2259 
986 1053.3379call theyself integrating, and then police1055.5714 
988 1055.6833got 'em just like they- you see on the movies and beat 'em and1058.5546 
990 1059.0069put 'em in jail and all that for standing up to getting a cup of coffee1062.6872 
992 1062.7991at t-1063.1302 
994 1063.2141cou-1063.3726 
996 1063.4426white counter.1064.3367 
998 1065.9641But, it was-1066.6215 
1000 1066.7428it was rough.1067.6334 
1002 1068.6219We really felt it then.1070.2761 
1004 1072.6215[And you cou-] look in, you go in the store, you couldn't try on no shoes.1076.5032 
1005VLD_int_011072.6215[Did /??/]1073.0822
1006VLD_se0_ag4_f_021077.1513You had to measure your feet,1078.8708
1008 1080.4422and you just went and got a shoe tha-1082.3633 
1010 1082.5265that l-1082.8436 
1012 1083.0861length of that1083.8088 
1014 1084.9174shoe.1085.2905 
1016 1085.4210Cause you couldn't try 'em on in the store.1087.4307 
1018 1089.0161Couldn't try on your1089.7668 
1020 1089.8554clothes.1090.5537 
1022 1093.4261You could buy 'em, but you couldn't try 'em on.1095.3705 
1023VLD_int_011097.7313And this was like that all over town?1099.2747
1024VLD_se0_ag4_f_021099.3307All over town.1100.6305
1026 1101.6423<laugh>1101.9454 
1027VLD_int_011101.9501So, were there like1102.7055
1029 1103.0225sections, like1103.8386 
1031 1104.0064for just the black folks on this side of town?1105.8669 
1033 1105.9275Or,1106.2714 
1035 1106.4859even those stores were.1107.7263 
1036VLD_se0_ag4_f_021108.2672All of 'em like that. We didn't. See, we didn't have no black stores or [nothing like that]. Er- white people owned everything.1114.0522
1037VLD_int_011111.4783[Mm-hm.]1112.0699
1038VLD_se0_ag4_f_021115.3567Filling station, everything, er- but.1117.3151
1040 1117.6182You'd never see no1118.6720 
1042 1118.8725black person behind a counter, using the cash register, nothing like that.1122.7649 
1044 1124.7639I would just eye the-1125.6792 
1046 1125.7911onliest thing1126.5174 
1048 1126.6479black people did in a store if you was the maid,1129.1706 
1050 1129.2498to clean up.1129.8513 
1051VLD_int_011132.1875Mm.1132.4614
1052VLD_se0_ag4_f_021132.6526That was it.1133.1282
1053VLD_int_011134.3219So, then, think about civil-1136.0472
1055 1136.6487civil rights.1137.8144 
1057 1138.9697Mm.1139.1748 
1059 1139.3007Going back. So, your parents were both-1140.8535 
1061 1141.3897Both-1141.6135 
1063 1141.7534they both were custodians, right? So how,1144.2807 
1065 1145.4919in their jobs, how did they1147.2312 
1067 1148.7606function, like do-1149.7258 
1069 1150.2108do you feel like they experience racism? Did you-1151.8603 
1071 1151.9535Did [they talk about it?]1152.8208 
1072VLD_se0_ag4_f_021152.0655[Oh, sure.]1152.7882
1073 1153.1099No, they didn't talk about it, you didn't talk about it. You just1155.9217
1075 1156.7138wasn't no-1157.1848 
1077 1159.1245n-1159.2458 
1079 1159.4882Who were you gonna talk about it to?1161.4327 
1080VLD_int_011161.7124Mm.1162.1741
1081VLD_se0_ag4_f_021162.5786Uh-huh.1163.2547
1083 1163.4226Yeah, so.1164.0474 
1084VLD_int_011165.6561So, they just did they jobs and [came home?]1167.6984
1085VLD_se0_ag4_f_021167.0223[Did they job.]1168.0062
1086 1169.7956A-1170.0148
1088 1170.0800and just1170.5090 
1090 1170.5976as the old folks say, make do.1172.3462 
1092 1173.0829<laugh>1173.9736 
1094 1174.4480That's what that was a thing they'd do.1176.3971 
1096 1176.7235Yes ma'am, no ma'am.1178.1177 
1097VLD_int_011181.7906So, now, thinking ba- so, what happened in the-1184.1034
1099 1184.4625At what point do you think there was a turning point here?1186.8499 
1101 1187.9363In the c- in Valdosta. Was it-1189.1289 
1103 1189.6978was it1190.0941 
1105 1190.6117the beginning of the civil rights? Was it after MLK was assassinated?1193.7452 
1106VLD_se0_ag4_f_021195.6931I think it was after he was assassinated.1198.0619
1108 1200.3642When it1200.6067 
1110 1200.7186really got better here.1201.9589 
1111VLD_int_011202.5977And what happened?1203.2412
1112VLD_se0_ag4_f_021204.3789Well, it started ha- well.1205.9503
1114 1206.0156Uh, black people started going to school and1208.4951 
1116 1208.9707getting themselves ready for good jobs cause1211.8151 
1118 1212.1275most of 'em1212.8305 
1120 1213.1849didn't even finish high school.1214.9148 
1122 1215.6142A-1215.7914 
1124 1216.0759College was just out of it. Nobody went to college way back there.1219.7845 
1126 1220.8355So,1221.1339 
1128 1221.2645that's what you had to do.1222.5048 
1130 1222.6540Whatever your parents did, you1224.2896 
1132 1224.6067a-1224.6999 
1134 1224.9191end up doing that.1226.1501 
1135VLD_int_011228.3556And so,1229.1017
1137 1229.2322after the-1229.7731 
1139 1230.0529were there riots? Or was i- it just kind of like1232.3100 
1141 1232.4499stuff started to change? What-1234.1239 
1143 1234.7300what happened in the [city?]1235.7465 
1144VLD_se0_ag4_f_021235.4388[No, we didn't] have any [riots and-]1237.4101
1145VLD_int_011236.6226[Oh, you y'all didn't go.]1237.4852
1146VLD_se0_ag4_f_021237.5266No, we didn't go1238.4172
1148 1238.5152through all that. The burning and1240.1378 
1150 1240.2684all that kind of stuff. The- I never heard of that here.1243.0920 
1151VLD_int_011243.7332Did they move the, um,1244.9129
1153 1245.0061how di- So, what happened when they started moving the signs? Like the1247.8692 
1155 1248.3634[white and s- mm-hm.]1249.7343 
1156VLD_se0_ag4_f_021248.4707[White and co-]1249.2494
1157 1249.7856Well, we didn't have any trouble with that.1251.6962
1158VLD_int_011252.0087You [didn't?]1252.7594
1159VLD_se0_ag4_f_021252.1654[Uh. Mm.]1252.7763
1160 1253.4402None whatsoever.1254.5761
1161VLD_int_011255.1468So, just one day they took it down [and?]1256.6949
1162VLD_se0_ag4_f_021256.4664[It wasn't that's-]1257.3494
1163 1257.7271When they passed the bill that equal rights,1260.2031
1165 1260.5155they just took 'em down.1261.8072 
1167 1263.1209And they tried to be nice,1264.7530 
1169 1264.8462but you could tell, they-1266.0399 
1171 1267.2150it hadn't got there.1268.1709 
1173 1268.6185[<laugh>]1269.6572 
1174VLD_int_011268.6185[Hm.]1268.9531
1175VLD_se0_ag4_f_021270.4639Yeah.1270.9861
1176VLD_int_011271.4804Do remember like the first time that you went to a place that ha- used to be whites and colors and that you1275.8857
1178 1276.2773went in?1276.7716 
1179VLD_se0_ag4_f_021277.7182Well, I experience is, I went to a filling station one time, we was on our way to Tampa,1282.3953
1181 1283.2812and,1283.6951 
1183 1284.4551they had a sign up there, white only,1286.6234 
1185 1287.1596to the1287.5326 
1187 1288.3067service station.1289.2439 
1189 1289.6344So, we filled up with gas, and so I told the lady. I said, I'm going in this bathroom.1294.3486 
1191 1295.1821I said, oh, we can't make it til the next stop, you know.1297.8540 
1193 1298.4835So,1298.7866 
1195 1298.9218I went on in there, and so, when I come out, the man said, um,1302.4085 
1197 1303.0007did you see that sign? I said, I sure did.1305.3554 
1199 1306.2460But, I had to go to the bathroom.1308.1613 
1201 1309.0007And we filled up with gas, why can't we use the bathroom?1312.2227 
1203 1312.8103So, he was surprised that I said that, so he say,1315.5975 
1205 1315.9799oh.1316.3716 
1207 1317.3041Well.1317.6678 
1209 1317.9103It was the white bathroom.1319.5039 
1211 1321.4250So, that was it (laughing). We didn't have any o- (laughing).1323.4580 
1213 1323.8777He was red as fire. (laughing)1325.5446 
1215 1325.6518<laugh> But, he just said na-1326.7629 
1217 1327.1965he said, did you see that sign?1328.9218 
1218VLD_int_011332.2169And he didn't say1332.9163
1220 1333.0189but that was it?1333.5831 
1221VLD_se0_ag4_f_021333.7735[Mm-mm.]1334.1051
1222VLD_int_011333.7735[There was nothing. He didn't get violent or anything else?]1336.0023
1223VLD_se0_ag4_f_021334.3578[Mm-hm. No, didn't no. We] didn't have any violence, mm-mm.1337.4307
1224 1338.1441Like, some people. You know, you seen all over the county how they beat 'em and /??/ but I can't remember nothing like that- nothing but just a accident up at the1346.3325
1226 1346.7077Crest store.1347.5703 
1228 1348.1636The police just got him and dragged him out of /then/1350.6198 
1230 1351.3516put him in jail.1352.2656 
1231VLD_int_011354.1868So, by the time your kids went to school, the schools, were they [integrated?]1356.9352
1232VLD_se0_ag4_f_021356.4875[Oh, yeah.] They was integrated.1357.7885
1233 1357.8724Yeah.1358.1568
1234VLD_int_011358.3713Okay, i-1359.0148
1235VLD_se0_ag4_f_021359.0988No they didn't.1360.0363
1237 1360.1436They didn't integrate until seventy1362.8061 
1239 1364.0266one.1364.7214 
1241 1365.3322Seventy-one.1366.2695 
1243 1366.8617Cause that's when, um,1368.0414 
1245 1368.1207they had to go to the1369.2164 
1247 1369.4356Valdosta High.1370.4416 
1249 1372.4513Cause he- we had Pinevale.1374.0274 
1250VLD_int_011374.0554Mm-hm.1374.5030
1251VLD_se0_ag4_f_021374.7035And when Pinevale closed, the all had to go to Valdo- cause my oldest daughter-1378.4980
1253 1380.2046They um1380.8667 
1255 1381.5755yeah. They had-1382.1432 
1257 1382.2551that's when they started.1383.3136 
1259 1383.6540In seventy-one.1384.6612 
1260VLD_int_011386.9926Was school. How- Mm.1388.1479
1262 1389.1084Mkay. So, now you get to see it from the other side,1391.2487 
1264 1391.3559how was the education? Do you feel, was it1393.2024 
1266 1393.3703[better?]1394.0266 
1267VLD_se0_ag4_f_021393.7422[It's] much better, cause they got to1395.7379
1268 1396.0970learn what they were learning.1397.9481
1270 1398.2232they couldn't give separate books and stuff like that. They had to do it, you know, equally.1402.8663 
1272 1404.0414Yes.1404.2839 
1274 1404.3771Cause,1404.8481 
1276 1405.1885I don't know well you know m-1406.1805 
1278 1406.3157re-1406.5768 
1280 1407.0292Mr. /RD-NAME-3/.1408.4047 
1281VLD_int_011408.8570Mm-mm.1409.1741
1282VLD_se0_ag4_f_021409.7383Well, he was the1410.5310
1284 1413.1582he was the uh,1414.0908 
1286 1414.2679vice president1415.4383 
1288 1417.8106No, he was the1418.4541 
1290 1418.7665he was the superintendent at the middle school.1421.6295 
1291VLD_int_011422.1284Mm-hm.1422.4875
1292VLD_se0_ag4_f_021422.6274They let him beat 'em /?/.1423.5262
1294 1424.1510And so, when they segregated,1425.9509 
1296 1426.6550the1426.7855 
1298 1426.8741children walked out.1428.0119 
1300 1428.3802The black children walk out.1429.9738 
1302 1430.6872And he was in charge of getting 'em all back to school.1433.8067 
1304 1434.2450Back in school.1435.1123 
1306 1435.1729Cause1435.3630 
1308 1436.0997they weren't showing difficulties, you know and na-1438.5850 
1310 1438.6783and1439.0187 
1312 1439.0886children had been black all their lives, so they really didn't wanna mix.1442.8831 
1313VLD_int_011443.4100Hm.1443.8390
1314VLD_se0_ag4_f_021444.1887But um,1444.7809
1316 1446.8652yeah, that was in seventy-one, I believe it was. Yeah.1449.8296 
1317VLD_int_011450.6876So, when did-1451.2751
1319 1451.5969when did black people really like in-1453.3507 
1321 1453.4719that you could see started really going to college?1455.8780 
1323 1456.2696Like going to S- BSU or BSC at the time or even any1460.2370 
1325 1460.3443[that you knew.]1461.0903 
1326VLD_se0_ag4_f_021460.4189[Any school.]1461.1463
1327 1461.5473Well, cause1462.0276
1329 1462.0929bu- but before then,1463.5978 
1331 1463.8543uh,1464.2973 
1333 1464.6050before they started here,1466.0412 
1335 1466.6007t- uh, the older people like1468.8211 
1337 1469.2780eighty something years old now1470.7655 
1339 1471.2332they went to school like Fort Valley, and Albany State, [Savannah] State.1475.1733 
1340VLD_int_011474.1102[Mm-hm.]1474.6650
1341VLD_se0_ag4_f_021475.9695All black [colleges.]1477.3544
1342VLD_int_011477.1865[Right.]1477.4849
1343VLD_se0_ag4_f_021478.1471Yeah.1478.5061
1345 1479.4947So,1479.8490 
1347 1480.1517m-1480.2502 
1349 1480.4833e- they had started going to s-1482.0034 
1351 1482.2739uh,1482.7262 
1353 1482.8428college before they,1484.0052 
1355 1484.5647you know, Valdosta State got started.1486.6096 
1357 1487.6447And most of 'em come back, and was teachers and different things, and they could really help their children.1492.7073 
1359 1495.3515Yeah.1495.7339 
1360VLD_int_011498.0455So.1498.4652
1362 1500.1531So, then, okay. So, now let's go back to1502.6474 
1364 1502.9785thinking about1503.5706 
1366 1503.9670let's fast forward a little bit. Thinking about today,1505.9360 
1367VLD_se0_ag4_f_021506.1459Mm-hm.1506.5142
1368VLD_int_011506.6495and thinking about1507.3734
1370 1507.4853when you were younger. What do you f- how do you feel like is the race relations in Valdosta now?1511.4243 
1372 1512.5574Like,1512.7859 
1374 1512.8512the whites, the blacks,1514.2349 
1376 1514.5007do you feel like it's still segregated in a [way?]1516.1840 
1377VLD_se0_ag4_f_021516.0022[No.] I1516.6363
1378 1516.7202think they gets along pretty good now.1518.8185
1380 1519.0703Uh-huh. I really do.1520.1288 
1381VLD_int_011521.5592Um.1522.1187
1383 1522.1980And then,1522.9627 
1385 1523.0700what do you think about1524.5574 
1387 1525.4154you know how people talk about different sides of town?1527.5384 
1388VLD_se0_ag4_f_021527.6736Mm-hm.1528.1259
1389VLD_int_011528.1259Tell me about the different sides of town.1529.7533
1390VLD_se0_ag4_f_021532.1442<ts> Well, we didn't know nothing about the white side of town (laughing). We always stayed in-1536.1677
1392 1536.5081in this side of the1537.4955 
1394 1537.9152Magno- I mean1539.0016 
1396 1539.1883Westside, they had their little side, and I think Tom Town, they called it out here.1543.5871 
1398 1544.0361They had their's, but1545.1599 
1400 1545.6262now,1546.2883 
1402 1546.6520they all over Valdosta. You buy a house or1549.7564 
1404 1549.9848build a house anywhere you wanna.1551.5842 
1405VLD_int_011553.5461And you feel like it's- it's- it's good?1555.3134
1406VLD_se0_ag4_f_021555.3134It's good.1555.9196
1407 1556.0128Better.1556.3485
1408VLD_int_011556.5770So now let's talk about1557.9712
1410 1558.3443church.1558.9411 
1412 1559.0530Cause that's a very important1560.7212 
1414 1561.2994part of-1562.3905 
1416 1562.4744of life and1563.9386 
1418 1564.0645especially in the South.1565.1183 
1420 1565.6592So,1566.1721 
1422 1566.9403tell me about, did you always go to church?1568.9547 
1423VLD_se0_ag4_f_021569.2298Mm-hm.1569.6728
1424VLD_int_011569.8174Even when you were younger?1570.6287
1425VLD_se0_ag4_f_021570.6287<ts> Yeah. we was1571.3608
1426 1571.4307brought up in [church.]1572.5626
1427VLD_int_011572.3575[So,] tell me about1573.1315
1428 1573.2294going to church when you were younger1574.6050
1430 1574.6796with your family. Like your parents and.1576.5494 
1431VLD_se0_ag4_f_021576.5494Yeah, we1577.1882
1432 1577.3141walked to church. We ha- our church1579.1269
1434 1579.2248the church I'm a member of now, been a member of my church1582.1764 
1436 1582.9271ever since nineteen forty-eight.1584.9497 
1437VLD_int_011584.9497Okay. So you1585.5698
1439 1585.7750grew up in [that church]1586.7495 
1440VLD_se0_ag4_f_021586.4838I /drew/ up in church.1587.8288
1441 1588.2137So, we always walked.1589.4960
1443 1589.9203Cause we was right right round here on South Street. We walked to this church up here.1593.6402 
1445 1594.4282And my parents, they was a member out at, um,1597.7051 
1447 1597.9895out here on forty-one.1599.3930 
1449 1600.0272And they only had church once a month.1602.0649 
1451 1602.2176That was the first Sunday.1603.4299 
1453 1603.9242So, we were living next door to a lady that belongs to Morning Star, so she said, we can have those children in Sunday school1610.1387 
1455 1610.2133every Sunday cause we had1611.8080 
1457 1612.0458always had church every Sunday1613.7091 
1459 1614.0682at Morning Star.1615.0148 
1460VLD_int_011615.0384Mm.1615.4327
1461VLD_se0_ag4_f_021615.5090But you know those kind of little country churches and1617.7461
1463 1618.2403lot of 'em just had once a month. Some of 'em had two.1620.7863 
1465 1621.5930But, mostly was once.1622.9685 
1467 1623.4803But,1623.7321 
1469 1623.8953I've always been in church.1625.3827 
1470VLD_int_011627.3443Were you- did you d- what did you do at church? Usher? Sing?1630.3612
1471VLD_se0_ag4_f_021630.3845I sang in the choir.1631.7694
1473 1632.6029I was president of my mission1634.3515 
1475 1634.8085for thirty years.1635.9742 
1477 1637.5596I did-1638.3896 
1479 1639.8666No, I did no usher. I didn't like ushering.1641.9229 
1481 1642.4964[<laugh>]1643.1632 
1482VLD_int_011642.9534[Why] not?1643.3357
1483VLD_se0_ag4_f_021643.8708Cause people won't do what you say. You tell 'em to sit here, and they gonna say I'm wanna sit over there.1648.2213
1485 1648.5710<laugh>1650.7250 
1487 1651.2705I wasn't a good greeter.1652.5901 
1488VLD_int_011652.6974[<laugh>]1654.2305
1489VLD_se0_ag4_f_021653.2047[And you- a usher should] be a good greeter, smiling,1656.6803
1490 1657.0626and be nice.1658.0885
1492 1658.6545And see, if you can't be nice, and I wasn't nice,1661.2820 
1494 1661.5366you know, that nice.1662.6342 
1496 1662.8010<laugh>1664.6845 
1497VLD_int_011665.0884So you- that wasn't [your calling?]1666.5576
1498VLD_se0_ag4_f_021665.9957[Mm-hm.] And I1666.9264
1499 1667.0186taught Sunday school a while when I got out /?/.1669.7757
1501 1670.6186And I always helped with the young peoples at church.1673.2485 
1503 1674.2100Cause I had children.1675.5447 
1505 1676.0320And so,1676.6071 
1507 1676.7564just,1677.0929 
1509 1677.7251teach the other folk's children, you got to carry your own, so my four was always in church.1682.3154 
1511 1683.1549/RD-NAME-3/1684.0520 
1513 1684.6910He the only one stop when he was sixteen, he got a job so he wouldn't have to go to church1689.7634 
1515 1690.4746on Sunday.1691.2297 
1517 1692.4136So, uh. Huh.1693.2214 
1519 1693.5814Cause I always say, if you live with me,1695.6273 
1521 1696.6107you gonna go to church,1698.0624 
1523 1698.4970and do what I say do.1699.8931 
1525 1701.0039So, if you don't wanna do that, just move.1702.9751 
1526VLD_int_011703.9326[<laugh>]1704.6693
1527VLD_se0_ag4_f_021704.0725[<laugh>]1704.5947
1528VLD_int_011706.7536Was he the first one to leave?1707.8951
1529VLD_se0_ag4_f_021708.0312Yeah.1708.3736
1530VLD_int_011708.4922[Mm-hm.]1708.9356
1531VLD_se0_ag4_f_021708.7600[He's] the first one. Got him a [job.]1710.5585
1532VLD_int_011710.2336[<laugh>]1710.9712
1533VLD_se0_ag4_f_021711.1380Cause1711.4936
1535 1711.6780all of 'em graduated from school.1713.6887 
1537 1714.3385Two of 'em graduated from Valdosta State.1716.4399 
1539 1717.1687One of them went to Morris Brown.1718.7185 
1541 1719.8292But,1720.0927 
1543 1720.5492his last year in school,1722.7297 
1545 1723.4662when they got out for Christmas,1724.9896 
1547 1725.2091He just decide he'd get him a job, and he wasn't going back to school.1728.6364 
1549 1729.8042Like in one half1730.9193 
1551 1731.0159quarter from graduating. He the only one who didn't graduate.1733.6413 
1552VLD_int_011735.3959Hm.1735.7384
1553VLD_se0_ag4_f_021737.5076Sunday. Yeah, they went to school.1739.2424
1554VLD_int_011741.4112Do you have any grandkids?1742.7414
1555VLD_se0_ag4_f_021743.3736I have1744.2253
1557 1745.4897you know. <laugh>1746.2565 
1559 1747.4989My daughter lives in- I got one daughter lives in Boston, Massachusetts, she has two boys.1752.4687 
1561 1752.9209One of them is1753.4770 
1563 1753.5972thirty1754.1284 
1565 1754.8089nine and twenty-nine.1756.6923 
1567 1758.0577And the one t-1758.7689 
1569 1759.0938thirty nine, he has six children.1761.9240 
1571 1762.5869And1762.8460 
1573 1763.5177I don't know how many grands1765.0499 
1575 1765.2782he got.1765.8445 
1577 1768.0557Now, I don't know how many grands she got, but he- I know he had six children. The other one just got married last year.1773.9326 
1579 1776.1131/RD-NAME-2/ has one.1777.4433 
1581 1778.1721/RD-NAME-2/ had one, so that's1779.8448 
1583 1780.2312that's the grand children.1781.2980 
1584VLD_int_011781.8600But, you've got great grands.1783.2268
1585VLD_se0_ag4_f_021783.3280Mm-hm.1783.8058
1587 1783.9529Yeah.1784.2615 
1589 1784.7069Yeah, that's1785.0830 
1591 1785.1730grand1785.5000 
1593 1785.6022their son1786.2276 
1595 1786.7304[grandson] I got. I think he got about six or seven.1790.0074 
1596VLD_int_011786.9307[Hm.]1787.1882
1597 1791.2977But they're not1791.7801
1599 1791.8986old1792.1194 
1601 1792.2011so you're not great-great grandma yet?1793.7300 
1602VLD_se0_ag4_f_021794.0734Mm-mm.1794.4331
1603VLD_int_011794.5557Mm-mm.1794.8950
1605 1795.0381But it's probably coming in a [few years. Mm-hm.]1797.6164 
1606VLD_se0_ag4_f_021796.3206[Mm-hm. Mm-hm.]1797.6164
1607 1797.8208Mm-hm.1798.3073
1608VLD_int_011798.9392What do you think is,1800.6724
1610 1801.7665What's the one lesson that you think you've given to your kids that1804.8365 
1612 1805.1471was the most important lesson?1806.4430 
1613VLD_se0_ag4_f_021807.1896Work and take care of yourself.1809.0700
1614VLD_int_011811.3469Why do you say that?1811.9969
1615VLD_se0_ag4_f_021812.9520Because you1813.6224
1617 1813.7328er.1813.9699 
1619 1814.3950If you take care of yourself, you won't have to depend on other people.1818.0996 
1620VLD_int_011820.5140Hm.1820.7348
1622 1821.0209That's important.1821.7690 
1623VLD_se0_ag4_f_021822.0061Mm-hm.1822.4353
1624VLD_int_011823.1261What do you think,1824.0541
1626 1824.2012if you could do one thing over1825.8513 
1628 1826.2437in life, not1827.0449 
1630 1827.2084because you regret it. Just something you could do differently, what would it be?1829.7715 
1631VLD_se0_ag4_f_021830.4527Nursing.1831.0700
1633 1831.9277I likeded nursing.1833.0035 
1635 1833.7393Cause um,1834.5691 
1637 1834.8425I did go to nursing school.1836.7678 
1639 1838.4765I got my little nurse's aide license way back there.1841.7438 
1641 1842.1448I got those in Tampa though when I down there.1844.6301 
1643 1845.8765And1846.1935 
1645 1846.7753well, when I left here, I was working at Pineview.1849.3259 
1647 1849.8994It1850.0066 
1649 1850.1745/well/1850.6501 
1651 1851.1024South Georgia Medical Center now, but it was Pineview General then.1854.7794 
1653 1855.5347I worked there when they first opened. About nine months.1858.7102 
1655 1859.4003So, I had to go to school to get your1861.3389 
1657 1861.4695CPA1862.3368 
1659 1862.4953license, they call it now, but it was a nurse's aide.1865.6055 
1661 1866.1734So, I would do that.1867.1246 
1662VLD_int_011868.4710And, um.1869.4363
1664 1870.1777Why? What did you like about it?1871.5112 
1665VLD_se0_ag4_f_021871.8750I just like taking care of people, seeing that they comfortable.1875.2124
1667 1875.7347You know.1876.1777 
1669 1876.8818I have a lot of patience with old folk. That's all I got for customers (laughing) now, is old folk.1881.8186 
1671 1882.0844I have to help 'em, many people in and out of their1883.8143 
1673 1883.9948chair1884.5544 
1675 1884.7249put them in. (laughing)1885.5956 
1676VLD_int_011886.2251[And /all 'em remember/.]1887.3315
1677VLD_se0_ag4_f_021886.3789[Some of 'em, I-]1887.0378
1678 1887.8958I used to.1888.8423
1680 1889.4858Now I had1890.0547 
1682 1890.1479two one time, I used to have to go get and bring t- t-1893.0611 
1684 1893.2290get their hair done.1894.2268 
1686 1894.3854But they died.1895.3506 
1688 1896.9581Mm.1897.1446 
1689VLD_int_011897.4850And you been just.1898.2731
1690VLD_se0_ag4_f_021898.2731Mm. [And then I] worked in a nursing home for1900.6978
1691VLD_int_011898.7254[And you just.]1899.3269
1692VLD_se0_ag4_f_021901.2666oh, about seven years out there, um1903.4804
1694 1903.9933I'd go out there and do their hair on Wednesdays.1905.9564 
1695VLD_int_011907.9847You still do that?1908.6142
1696VLD_se0_ag4_f_021908.7821Mm-mm.1909.2099
1698 1909.9746No. I had surgery, and I1911.6673 
1700 1911.7605couldn't lift and help with 'em, you know, getting 'em in and out the shampoo bowl and I sh-1915.9420 
1702 1916.1751I had to stop that cause the1917.7092 
1704 1918.2175Nurses are real lazy now, they ain't like they used to be.1921.2379 
1706 1922.2031They wouldn't1922.7487 
1708 1923.3595change and wouldn't bring 'em in there, so I told the lady I had to stop1926.7054 
1710 1926.7893but, I used to go out there every Wednesday.1928.9576 
1712 1930.3145I had two nursing home.1931.8719 
1714 1932.5562Heritage House and Holly Hill.1934.2712 
1715VLD_int_011934.2628Mm-hm.1934.8969
1716VLD_se0_ag4_f_021936.1746I did that for about ten years alone.1938.4958
1717VLD_int_011940.5183What do you think is-1942.3555
1719 1942.9290When you think of your greatest accomplishment, the thing that you're the most proud of, what is it?1946.9426 
1720VLD_se0_ag4_f_021948.2762Taking care of myself.1949.5492
1722 1949.9688[<laugh>]1951.9762 
1723VLD_int_011950.3838[<laugh>]1951.2278
1724 1952.6103Cause your husband's1953.3004
1726 1953.4450been dead for ho-1954.2890 
1727VLD_se0_ag4_f_021954.4044[Uh. This last one-] twen- in two, in um, two thou-1957.9715
1728VLD_int_011954.4044[a long.]1955.4862
1729VLD_se0_ag4_f_021958.2420well.1958.7595
1731 1964.0601Uh.1964.2933 
1733 1964.8994Nineteen, um1966.2657 
1735 1967.9012ninety-five.1968.9317 
1736VLD_int_011969.5472So, you got remarried?1970.4751
1737VLD_se0_ag4_f_021970.6476Uh-huh.1971.1279
1739 1971.4263Okay.1971.7807 
1741 1972.1398[And I-] I was married to him ten years. /RD-NAME-3/.1975.0343 
1742VLD_int_011972.1771[So.]1972.5178
1743VLD_se0_ag4_f_021976.1580<ts> And he died of a heart attack.1978.2563
1745 1979.7022And1980.1359 
1747 1981.7632we got married in1982.8812 
1749 1983.5806eighty-five and he died in ninety-five.1986.2058 
1751 1987.6280[Mm-hm.]1988.2482 
1752VLD_int_011988.1456[So] how'd you meet him?1989.0257
1753VLD_se0_ag4_f_021990.0842Church.1990.8349
1755 1991.1893[<laugh>]1993.2456 
1756VLD_int_011992.7514[<laugh>]1993.2456
1757VLD_se0_ag4_f_021993.8973Sk- in church. <laugh>1995.3008
1759 1995.8137And he was a pastor, different churches, so1998.4389 
1761 1999.1710we went around for a while and then I used to go to all these conventions where churches go2003.9960 
1763 2004.0892to out of town2005.4275 
1765 2005.5487and them things like that.2006.8977 
1767 2008.4737But, that was a long time ago.2010.3529 
1769 2011.3636And I attended a lot of state conventions and things with the hairdressers, and I went2015.9099 
1771 2015.9892to, um,2016.5709 
1773 2017.2983we used to have something called State Convention, then we had the national.2021.0006 
1775 2021.5462We've been to Washington twice.2023.5128 
1777 2025.0282And you get to, um,2026.2453 
1779 2027.1825let me see, I got my-2028.2911 
1781 2029.8998I was trying to look at my diplomas I got. I think I got this one in2033.5835 
1783 2036.3708Miami.2036.9723 
1785 2038.3432I got one in Washington at-2040.0253 
1787 2040.2025But, I think this one says Detroit.2042.6645 
1789 2043.6111And then I got my2044.4877 
1790VLD_int_012047.6946Oh, this is where Russell's Vanity Box comes2050.6369
1792 2050.7255from. [That's your] name before you got remarried.2052.6688 
1793VLD_se0_ag4_f_022050.8608[Mm-hm.]2051.3177
1795 2052.6688Yeah.2052.9952 
1796 2053.2517Mm-hm.2053.5128
1797VLD_int_012053.5128Oh. [Okay.]2054.5237
1798VLD_se0_ag4_f_022054.3605[Yeah.] That's i- so, I just kept it like.2056.3236
1799VLD_int_012056.4308Mm-hm.2057.1396
1800VLD_se0_ag4_f_022057.5732Everything's in Russell. And I had another one that.2060.4258
1801VLD_int_012060.4771And this is-2060.9946
1803 2061.0926This your national2062.2070 
1805 2062.3749from-2062.6640 
1807 2062.8691for your-2063.4380 
1809 2063.9929for beauty.2064.6119 
1810VLD_se0_ag4_f_022064.7704Mm-hm. Actually no,2066.1134
1812 2066.2299uh, beauty [/center/.]2067.2744 
1813VLD_int_012066.8314[And then] this one is. What's that one? The same?2068.6546
1814VLD_se0_ag4_f_022068.7153[The same.]2069.2795
1815VLD_int_012068.7899[That's no-/]2069.1442
1816VLD_se0_ag4_f_022069.3447[Mm-hm.]2069.9976
1817VLD_int_012069.3447[Mm-hm.]2069.9976
1818VLD_se0_ag4_f_022071.1948This the one I got in Washington DC.2073.4050
1820 2074.0811After I got my doctor's2075.9509 
1822 2076.8544I got one when I was in Maine.2079.0226 
1824 2079.6521So, I did that for about2080.8365 
1826 2080.9437twelve years. [Every]2082.4813 
1827VLD_int_012082.0011[And you] went [around and.]2083.1015
1828VLD_se0_ag4_f_022082.9290[Mm-hm.] Til I2083.9222
1829 2084.2779finished and got the doctors.2086.0219
1830VLD_int_012087.9139Now, which convent- now, okay. So, you traveled a lot, you met your husband in church, your-2092.1757
1832 2092.2830your2092.4835 
1834 2092.5814second husband in church.2093.8159 
1836 2094.9304And you got to travel in all these places. What was your favorite place?2097.4623 
1837VLD_se0_ag4_f_022099.0932I- I think we went to Chicago.2100.8324
1839 2101.1588I liked Co- Chicago. We went in State Convention in Chicago.2105.0757 
1840VLD_int_012106.0024Why? What made Chicago so?2107.5785
1841VLD_se0_ag4_f_022108.3712Uh.2108.5764
1843 2108.8841Well, when we- we always had a-2111.1456 
1845 2113.2241what we call it. When the last day, we have like a2115.9659 
1847 2116.0825tour of the city.2117.2750 
1849 2117.8159And I just liked Chicago.2119.3500 
1851 2119.8922And they k- had us on a boat ride.2121.8680 
1853 2122.8565I didn't2123.3217 
1855 2123.4802care too much about that (laughing)2125.0423 
1857 2125.4340but, I did like it. <laugh>2127.3178 
1858VLD_int_012127.4297You said, I don't need to be on this [boat.]2128.9319
1859VLD_se0_ag4_f_022128.6747[Mm-mm]. I don't really like this.2130.2309
1860 2130.7998I likeded Michigan too. Detroit, Michigan was2133.8447
1862 2133.9519pretty good. And Miami, was rough, I didn't like that.2136.9770 
1863VLD_int_012137.1822Why was it rough?2137.8443
1864VLD_se0_ag4_f_022139.3178Oh, the- the- the housing2141.5082
1866 2141.7600place, the hotels and all wasn't2143.7044 
1868 2144.8515like we usually have.2146.1944 
1869VLD_int_012146.2877Mm. Mm-hm.2147.2424
1870VLD_se0_ag4_f_022149.7184Yeah.2150.0868
1871VLD_int_012150.0868So, if you could go-2151.0054
1873 2151.0986Where's some place that you want to go that you've never been?2153.5501 
1875 2155.4992Anywhere in the world?2156.4645 
1876VLD_se0_ag4_f_022157.6442<ts> I really want to go2159.2902
1878 2159.4056to um,2160.0397 
1880 2162.4505uh, Vegas.2163.4437 
1882 2165.9325Yeah.2166.3848 
1884 2166.5573Vegas.2167.1029 
1885VLD_int_012167.8723Mkay.2168.3059
1886VLD_se0_ag4_f_022168.3992[Mm-hm.]2168.8375
1887VLD_int_012168.6463[Well,]2168.8375
1888 2168.9541why do you wanna go to [Vegas?]2170.1478
1889VLD_se0_ag4_f_022169.9286[I] just wanna go there.2171.2657
1890VLD_int_012171.3869See it all?2172.1097
1891VLD_se0_ag4_f_022172.1470And see it all <laugh>2174.1847
1892VLD_int_012174.5437And why- and so2175.4623
1894 2175.5696when you going? When you booking your flight? When you going?2177.7367 
1895VLD_se0_ag4_f_022179.0703I2179.3407
1897 2179.4386probably won't make it this time. [<laugh>]2183.7320 
1898VLD_int_012182.4555[<laugh>]2183.9885
1899VLD_se0_ag4_f_022184.5853<laugh>2185.4759
1901 2185.8629I can't travel like I used to. Then, them airports and things, it's just a little too rough for me. Cause the last time, my s-2192.3063 
1903 2192.6327sister and brother lives in Rochester, New York.2195.4398 
1905 2197.6208And I went there about two years ago.2199.4813 
1907 2201.0201And I had to have me a wheel chair from here2203.4017 
1909 2203.5043to Atlanta2204.5674 
1911 2205.3927And they had to push me around everywhere where I can't walk like I used to.2208.9541 
1913 2210.0685It's the travel, it too fast [for me.]2212.2507 
1914VLD_int_012211.8576[Mm-hm.]2212.2507
1915VLD_se0_ag4_f_022212.4233So,2212.8196
1917 2213.2859that's one reason I don't2214.4411 
1919 2214.7675care about going.2215.5602 
1920VLD_int_012216.4555Oh, and Vegas is busy.2217.8777
1921VLD_se0_ag4_f_022217.8963Mm. Yeah. It's [busy.]2219.1647
1922VLD_int_012219.0201[It's] busy.2219.8454
1923VLD_se0_ag4_f_022220.6370And then I- I've been to Houston. Ma- that's where my son is in Houston.2224.9968
1925 2225.5563And it's so big2226.5810 
1927 2226.6696too, but.2227.6115 
1929 2230.0735Mm-mm.2230.5072 
1930VLD_int_012232.7442You like-2233.0380
1932 2233.3224you like TV.2234.0778 
1934 2234.2643Most of the time I'm here. Well, you [usually have the TV on.]2236.0549 
1935VLD_se0_ag4_f_022235.3461[Oh yeah. ] I just2236.4372
1936 2236.5352[turn it on. <laugh>]2238.0961
1937VLD_int_012236.9082[<laugh>]2237.8641
1938 2238.1940What's your favorite2238.9960
1940 2239.1825TV?2239.5369 
1942 2239.6395Mm.2239.9239 
1944 2240.0079Mm-mm. Tell me about the first time you remember getting a TV.2242.8616 
1946 2245.7844How old were you?2246.9223 
1948 2247.0333What it at your2247.4867 
1950 2247.6671parents house? Did you have. Were you out on your own?2249.8364 
1951VLD_se0_ag4_f_022251.5670Mm. An- and cause when I was in Tampa,2253.9030
1953 2256.3644we have TVs.2257.8076 
1955 2259.7827I don't think we had2260.5413 
1957 2260.6986te-2260.9576 
1959 2261.8226TVs back then in the sixties.2263.7903 
1961 2266.2306Cause I believe the2266.9244 
1963 2267.0771first TV I got it was in sixty-f-2269.7367 
1965 2270.5206two.2271.0017 
1967 2271.1451Cause I had one when I was in the project.2273.1757 
1968VLD_int_012273.4486Mm-hm.2273.8140
1969VLD_se0_ag4_f_022274.4385So, it must have been in sixty-two.2276.2338
1971 2276.6409Somewhere like that.2277.6585 
1972VLD_int_012277.7002Was it black and white?2278.5281
1973VLD_se0_ag4_f_022278.9722Black and white.2279.9621
1975 2280.4709Oh, it was a long time before they put any col- (laughing) [<laugh>]2283.8482 
1976VLD_int_012282.9138<laugh>]2284.8750
1977VLD_se0_ag4_f_022285.8927<laugh>2286.3784
1979 2286.9380Long time.2287.8869 
1981 2288.1043And we had these little TVs like that one (laughing) right up there, you know.2291.6938 
1982VLD_int_012291.7585[Mm-hm.]2292.2396
1983VLD_se0_ag4_f_022292.0499[And]2292.4061
1984 2292.5171You know where the big screen. I guess we'd2294.7427
1986 2294.9601thought we was in the movies if we had had one of those. <laugh>2298.2396 
1987VLD_int_012298.5310And you could only watch certain TV programs?2300.6825
1988VLD_se0_ag4_f_022301.2515Cause I don't believe they had but two stations on there, it was um,2304.9057
1990 2305.9794CBS and NBC.2307.7279 
1992 2308.5481You know.2309.0338 
1994 2309.5426Yeah, it was just two.2310.6158 
1996 2311.2122All we had six and ten.2312.6979 
1998 2312.9385That's was it was in this day a six and [<laugh>]2315.2651 
1999VLD_int_012314.9367<laugh>]2316.9858
2000 2317.4814And, [think] as much as they changed, they stayed the same.2319.6092
2001VLD_se0_ag4_f_022317.6797[No.]2318.1429
2002 2319.7664They still the same.2320.8719
2004 2321.0523Mm-hm.2321.5935 
2005VLD_int_012321.5935So, what'd you watch back then?2323.0598
2007 2324.9847Or, what do you remember watching?2326.0532 
2008VLD_se0_ag4_f_022326.4973Well, w- tha- w-2327.1633
2010 2327.5149During that time, the soap operas had just started good.2331.0402 
2012 2331.3640So, we watched those soap operas from twelve to four every day.2334.8471 
2014 2334.9858[<laugh>]2335.7259 
2015VLD_int_012335.4623[What was] your favorite?2336.3272
2016VLD_se0_ag4_f_022336.3926Love of Life, and Guiding Light2338.6545
2018 2339.1125and took all them off now. Search for Tomorrow.2341.8369 
2019VLD_int_012342.9477Guiding Light ain't on no more?2344.0255
2020VLD_se0_ag4_f_022344.0255Mm-mm.2344.6869
2021 2345.3622They stayed on seventy-five years.2347.3929
2022VLD_int_012348.2531Mm.2348.6803
2023VLD_se0_ag4_f_022348.6803And they finally took that off. And Search for Tomorrow.2351.7239
2024 2352.0807And As the World [Turns.]2353.8847
2025VLD_int_012353.6765[Mm.]2353.8847
2026 2354.1576That one's gone too?2354.9948
2027VLD_se0_ag4_f_022354.9948Mm-hm.2355.4990
2028 2356.0263They all are.2356.5629
2029VLD_int_012356.9607Clearly, I don't keep up with the [soap operas.]2358.6562
2030VLD_se0_ag4_f_022358.0391[And so, they don't] have anything now but Young and Restless.2361.4296
2031 2363.8118Young and Restless and2365.2973
2033 2366.2176Hospital. And never watched that Hospital.2369.1688 
2034VLD_int_012370.6080Bold and Beautiful? [/inaudible/]2371.5979
2035VLD_se0_ag4_f_022371.2371[Bold and] Beautiful.2372.2964
2036 2372.4028Them the only2373.0180
2038 2373.1151two, three they got on that I know of.2375.0763 
2039VLD_int_012375.8951Mm.2376.4091
2040VLD_se0_ag4_f_022376.4415Mm-mm.2376.9827
2041VLD_int_012377.6627So.2378.3750
2043 2378.5462You used to, oh so.2379.5730 
2045 2379.6517Did the so-2380.0726 
2047 2380.2391Did you. So, you used to watch the soap [operas, and then you sti-] did you watch 'em like2383.3805 
2048VLD_se0_ag4_f_022381.5065[Mm-hm.]2382.1779
2049VLD_int_012383.6627as you got older? As the TV [kind of-]2385.5083
2050VLD_se0_ag4_f_022385.3649[Mm-hm.]2385.9338
2051VLD_int_012385.7118[So,] how did it change? How did the2387.0717
2052 2387.1781progra- did it get better? Was it like more complicated?2390.2224
2053VLD_se0_ag4_f_022391.6794It's more complicated.2393.0486
2055 2393.2984<laugh>2395.2741 
2056VLD_int_012395.4776Cause Mr.Newman.2396.4305
2057VLD_se0_ag4_f_022396.6664[Uh-huh.]2397.2816
2058VLD_int_012396.7127[Is like fifty-five and still.]2398.5675
2059VLD_se0_ag4_f_022397.3926[All that /?/-]2398.2437
2060 2398.6508Uh-huh, still doing all that crazy stuff. No I di- [<laugh>]2403.1706
2061VLD_int_012402.5493[<laugh>]2403.7488
2062VLD_se0_ag4_f_022404.3409Woo. No.2405.5805
2064 2406.9713And i- and a- and I don't worry about it like I used to, you know.2410.4550 
2066 2410.8667It used to be a time t-2412.1109 
2068 2412.4070twelve o'clock, we gonna turn that TV on you know, to watch2415.5345 
2070 2415.6316l- Love of Life2416.6863 
2072 2417.0286but now, it don't make no difference. (laughing)2419.8323 
2073VLD_int_012420.3689[If it's on, it's on.]2421.3819
2074VLD_se0_ag4_f_022420.5215[If i- if it's] on, it's on, you know.2422.6631
2075 2423.2321And I used to have some customer2425.2257
2077 2425.9433and they wouldn't come when the2427.8398 
2079 2427.9878soap operas on, cause they wanna2429.9814 
2081 2430.4162watch when they wanna watch it, you know.[<laugh>]2433.0211 
2082VLD_int_012432.5816[<laugh>]2433.6918
2083 2434.3394[So, they'd wait.]2435.1350
2084VLD_se0_ag4_f_022434.4134[When they -]2435.1350
2085 2435.3292uh-huh. Yeah.2436.2405
2086VLD_int_012436.3105Hm.2436.5464
2087VLD_se0_ag4_f_022436.5464Mm-mm. Mm.2437.2541
2088 2438.4197Yeah, then you got some that come in here, they don't walk, so why- they wanna talk.2442.7585
2090 2443.4761And then you got some wanna [watch TV s-]2445.8907 
2091VLD_int_012445.2801[<laugh>]2446.5938
2092VLD_se0_ag4_f_022446.3116[<laugh>]2446.5706
2093VLD_int_012446.8805You can't have them here together?2447.9443
2094VLD_se0_ag4_f_022447.8982No, you can't have them toge- together.2450.2301
2095 2450.8175And you'll say, were they watching soap o- I don't like soap opera.2453.9907
2097 2454.4810Well, you need to hush. [You know (laughing)]2456.3928 
2098VLD_int_012455.8562[<laugh>]2458.0256
2099VLD_se0_ag4_f_022456.5732[That. <laugh>]2458.0256
2100 2458.7194You know, you ain't home. [<laugh>]2460.9860
2101VLD_int_012460.6529[Right.]2460.9860
2102VLD_se0_ag4_f_022461.8371But,2462.0690
2104 2462.1523you- you go through a lots with this /??/.2464.6454 
2106 2465.5474Mm.2465.7278 
2107VLD_int_012466.2366[Really?]2466.5003
2108VLD_se0_ag4_f_022466.2783[Attitudes.]2467.3468
2109VLD_int_012467.4717A.2467.6659
2111 2468.1384Oh, I can [imagine.]2468.9974 
2112VLD_se0_ag4_f_022468.7490[You] have to learn them.2469.8961
2113 2470.3355Their attitudes.2471.3902
2114VLD_int_012472.6067So, how long-2473.1941
2116 2473.2959So, most of your customers you've had for a really long time right?2475.5075 
2117VLD_se0_ag4_f_022475.5862Oh yeah.2476.0164
2118VLD_int_012476.2615So, who's your customer that you've had for the longest?2478.5697
2119VLD_se0_ag4_f_022481.1329You know what, all my older customers about dead.2484.1626
2120VLD_int_012484.4864Mm.2484.8056
2121VLD_se0_ag4_f_022484.8056Mm-hm.2485.2358
2122 2485.5133Really is.2486.2031
2124 2488.4327Really. And2489.2236 
2126 2490.0285I got one lady. Ninety-seven.2491.9996 
2128 2492.8507and she's been coming a g-2494.3216 
2130 2495.2421oh,2495.8620 
2132 2498.0875I know I've been doing her hair about twenty years.2500.5946 
2134 2503.0230Yeah, she ninety-seven. Mrs., uh,2505.2485 
2136 2505.7666/RD-NAME-3/ out here.2507.0849 
2138 2508.9496Yeah, but the rest of 'em is gone.2510.6009 
2139VLD_int_012511.6186Now, what do you do to keep yourself active and2514.1395
2141 2514.4540beyond just doing hair. Cause I know you don't2516.0875 
2143 2516.3743be in the shop all day.2517.3734 
2144VLD_se0_ag4_f_022517.9470I go to2518.6362
2146 2519.3023a chair aerobics2520.4910 
2148 2520.7454every Monday and Wednesday.2522.9062 
2150 2523.7018[For an hour.]2524.5390 
2151VLD_int_012523.7018[/inaudible/]2524.5390
2152VLD_se0_ag4_f_022524.8675Mm-hm.2525.4919
2153VLD_int_012525.5017Mm-hm.2526.0109
2154VLD_se0_ag4_f_022527.1571And I was going to cha- um,2529.1190
2156 2529.5769water aerobics once,2531.0386 
2158 2531.1820but when it got cold, I had this allergy. I couldn't stand that chlorine2534.8785 
2160 2535.5862in that water.2536.2985 
2162 2536.9507So, I had to let that alone.2538.5234 
2164 2539.1109But,2539.4254 
2166 2540.2818I stay active.2541.2439 
2167VLD_int_012543.0016So, when you're not at the shop, what does your typical day look like? So, you go to aerobics, what else do you do?2547.2208
2168VLD_se0_ag4_f_022548.2569Mostly go shopping, gl- just looking in the store.2551.5642
2169VLD_int_012551.6897<laugh>2552.2771
2170VLD_se0_ag4_f_022552.9571Don't (laughing) buy nothing.2553.8267
2172 2554.6084Oh, and I go to Bible study, on Wednesday f-2557.7816 
2174 2557.9996from2558.3280 
2176 2558.6934twelve to one. I go to a mission meeting every Monday from2562.7824 
2178 2563.7954four to five or six.2566.0811 
2180 2568.3199Sunday school and2569.5093 
2182 2569.5879and church, that's it.2570.7952 
2183VLD_int_012572.4882So, let me ask you this,2573.6769
2185 2574.7963<ts> thinking about just kind of, you've seen a lot of things, you've been through a lot.2578.2615 
2187 2578.8305Um. Has there ever been a time you were like, oh my god, I'm about to die? For whatever reason. Something was going on, or you were somewhere,2584.6778 
2189 2584.9739and you were like, oh my god, I might die right now.2586.7103 
2190VLD_se0_ag4_f_022586.7131Mm-hm.2587.0785
2191VLD_int_012590.4015Or something just really scared you or.2592.2933
2192VLD_se0_ag4_f_022593.4041Mm.2593.6030
2194 2594.1211Well, I got sick in2595.3885 
2196 2595.6290two thousand seven.2597.2063 
2198 2598.9092I had um,2599.7001 
2200 2600.5975I went in for a colonoscopy.2602.3972 
2202 2603.1323I.2603.4191 
2204 2603.7059They found out I had2605.0109 
2206 2605.4966um,2606.0471 
2208 2606.6438what you call them?2607.3885 
2210 2608.4709Polyps.2609.1416 
2212 2610.1460So, I went in the hospital to get the polyps out,2612.7224 
2214 2614.1887and when they2615.0306 
2216 2615.1416found cancer, I had2616.3264 
2218 2616.4004cancer on the colon.2617.6400 
2220 2618.1720So, they cut it.2619.0739 
2222 2619.9759And my doctor2620.8363 
2224 2620.9057cut it too short.2622.2332 
2226 2623.2330And they2623.6261 
2228 2623.7233put it back together the wrong way2626.0407 
2230 2626.3783in my stomach.2627.1647 
2232 2628.4929So, I had to end up having surgery2630.8982 
2234 2631.8649for them to turn it right round.2633.7105 
2236 2634.1684So, I stayed in the hospital off and on for six months.2636.6993 
2238 2637.4440Over ni-2637.9158 
2240 2637.9991over and over. And I really thought I was gonna die then.2640.5854 
2242 2642.3385Cause they did so many wrong things. And how- why I say they're wrong because t-2646.8305 
2244 2647.3162the other doctors told me about what the other doctor had did and it was wrong.2651.7013 
2246 2652.8490So, I went over to2654.0193 
2248 2654.2136you remember2654.8010 
2250 2655.0138came to visit me to over there in Quitman?2657.2248 
2252 2658.1083And I was over there for2659.0063 
2254 2659.1636three weeks. They called it a swing bed instead of the nursing home.2663.4839 
2256 2664.7858And they had um,2665.7710 
2258 2666.2984turned my colon upside-down.2668.4354 
2260 2668.8794And I-2669.2402 
2262 2669.4114my urine was coming out of my mouth instead of2672.0116 
2264 2673.7600your rectum.2674.5279 
2265VLD_int_012675.1662Mm.2675.6241
2266VLD_se0_ag4_f_022675.8514And2676.1937
2268 2676.6794I just laid there for a while and I just-2678.7239 
2270 2678.8627just aksed to die.2679.9959 
2272 2681.1940Cause I was just so sick and wasn't nothing they doing2684.1041 
2274 2684.1920to-2684.4418 
2276 2684.7260to straighten it out. And it lasted about six months. I had to wear a colostomy on the side2690.1365 
2278 2691.3299for three months.2692.4770 
2280 2693.1801No. It was longer than that. About four or five month.2695.8219 
2282 2697.4131Well I s-2697.8757 
2284 2698.0746I wasn't working then. I didn't work for six months.2700.6193 
2286 2701.1651It was in two thousand seven.2702.6499 
2287VLD_int_012704.1763So, they fixed everything?2705.5501
2288VLD_se0_ag4_f_022705.5501Yeah, it's- it's better.2706.8876
2289 2707.3224<laugh>2708.1596
2291 2709.1356But, it still ain't like it used to be, so I been2711.7543 
2293 2712.1336just really going down, it look like2714.1920 
2295 2714.4001ever [since] then, but other than that.2716.2735 
2296VLD_int_012714.7983[Since.]2715.0089
2297 2718.2909How did you meet my mom?2719.3825
2298VLD_se0_ag4_f_022720.5713Her and /RD-NAME-2/ my2721.5796
2300 2721.6999youngest daughter [classmate.]2723.4114 
2301VLD_int_012722.6296[They went to school] that's right.2723.9105
2302VLD_se0_ag4_f_022723.9891And /RD-NAME-2/ were2724.6783
2304 2724.8124/RD-NAME-2/ used to see each other. They was friend. My son.<laugh> [She used to call]2729.6375 
2305VLD_int_012728.8598[Oh she used to hang out with my mom.]2730.2030
2306VLD_se0_ag4_f_022729.9208[/RD-NAME-2/]2730.4019
2307 2730.4944Uh-huh. [<laugh>]2731.3871
2308VLD_int_012731.1050[Oh.]2731.8208
2309VLD_se0_ag4_f_022732.1539Yeah.2732.7320
2311 2732.9217You know.2733.6479 
2313 2734.6250She started coming over here right after2736.2261 
2315 2736.3788she'd finished high school.2737.7525 
2317 2739.5935Yeah, cause /RD-NAME-2/ musta told, my mama fix hair. Something like that. <laugh>2743.2900 
2319 2743.6415And sh- sheriffs started coming over here.2745.7369 
2321 2746.4770But, I used to do2747.6010 
2323 2749.3964Uh.2749.9191 
2325 2750.2984Her aunt's hair. Which one of 'em was it?2752.6667 
2327 2752.7453That2752.9997 
2329 2753.9902worked at the2754.8644 
2331 2755.5490<ts> Walmart's as the greeter?2757.1448 
2332VLD_int_012757.3622Oh.2757.7092
2334 2758.0468Aunt /RD-NAME-2/.2758.6389 
2335VLD_se0_ag4_f_022758.7393Yeah, I used to do /RD-NAME-2/'s hair.2760.4296
2336VLD_int_012760.8829Cause she wanted her bouffant.2762.1781
2337VLD_se0_ag4_f_022762.1781Oh yeah.2762.7332
2338 2762.8719Yeah. I. Yeah. I used to do /RD-NAME-2/'s hair in one.2765.2263
2340 2767.9653Um.2768.2937 
2342 2768.3770The. What the other one name?2769.5658 
2343VLD_int_012772.8274The-2773.0402
2345 2773.7155Her older sister?2774.5944 
2347 2775.6675Oh. That lived over2776.7638 
2349 2777.7860on2778.1382 
2351 2778.2400A- East. Uh. A. /RD-NAME-2/.2779.7248 
2353 2780.1596/RD-NAME-3/?2780.6453 
2354VLD_se0_ag4_f_022780.9644Yeah.2781.3206
2355VLD_int_012781.3992[Mm-hm.]2781.8387
2356VLD_se0_ag4_f_022781.6120[Uh-huh. Yeah.2782.2318
2357VLD_int_012782.0283[You used to do her hair too?]2782.9072
2358VLD_se0_ag4_f_022782.4955[Yeah I] used to do /RD-NAME-3/.2783.9341
2359 2784.0550Mm-hm. I2784.6470
2361 2784.7395couldn't think her name, but I know /RD-NAME-2/ cause /RD-NAME-2/ (laughing)2787.2744 
2363 2787.6213<laugh>she2788.3660 
2365 2788.8841she- wasn't nobody no stranger to her.2791.1651 
2366VLD_int_012791.3733Mm-mm.2791.8081
2367VLD_se0_ag4_f_022791.8589[Mm-mm.]2792.2382
2368VLD_int_012792.0810[Mm-mm.]2792.5666
2369VLD_se0_ag4_f_022793.1957[Mm.]2793.6768
2370VLD_int_012793.5658[Cause] what'd she work at the hospital for a [long time.]2795.9387
2371VLD_se0_ag4_f_022795.3281[A long] time. [Mm-hm.]2797.1235
2372VLD_int_012796.9384[And then she retired.]2797.8682
2373VLD_se0_ag4_f_022797.3779[Yeah, that's] where I met her. At the hospital.2799.5334
2374VLD_int_012799.7138[Mm-hm.]2800.3752
2375VLD_se0_ag4_f_022800.1208[Mm-hm.]2800.5279
2376 2801.4761And she got that job out there, say cause said she couldn't just stay home and do nothing. [She.]2805.8849
2377VLD_int_012805.3021[Mm-mm.]2805.6860
2378 2806.1810Drove her crazy.2806.9164
2379VLD_se0_ag4_f_022806.9164Drove her crazy. And that was her, hum.2808.9523
2380 2809.3918When she died,2810.4880
2382 2810.7794they put a sign up.2812.1347 
2384 2812.2411Had a big old flyer way out there. And I said, now they really know what that said. [<laugh>]2816.2529 
2385VLD_int_012816.1511[Mm-hm.]2816.6877
2386VLD_se0_ag4_f_022817.2289She was a greeter.2818.4917
2387VLD_int_012818.8710I remember that. I remember um.2820.9016
2389 2821.6238Cause she passed away in two thousand ten.2823.6036 
2390VLD_se0_ag4_f_022823.7146Mm-hm.2824.4038
2391VLD_int_012824.7137So, my daughter has her- my daughter's middle name is Pearl.2827.3509
2392VLD_se0_ag4_f_022827.5359Mm-hm.2828.2159
2393VLD_int_012828.2714Um.2828.6276
2395 2829.5111<ts>2829.6267 
2397 2829.9644Because2831.0421 
2399 2831.5139right around that time, I think I got pregnant.2832.9346 
2401 2834.3084But, I rem-2834.9097 
2403 2835.0392Yup. I just remember [everybody]2836.4315 
2404VLD_se0_ag4_f_022835.9644[Mm-hm.]2836.4315
2405VLD_int_012836.6562at all /??/ you know everybody talked about the sweet potato [pies and] her being the greeter at Walmart.2841.0029
2406VLD_se0_ag4_f_022839.0133[Mm-hm.]2839.6377
2408 2841.0022Yeah.2841.4463 
2409 2841.7423Mm-hm.2842.4685
2410VLD_int_012842.5518Mm-hm.2843.1069
2411VLD_se0_ag4_f_022843.4075Yes sir.2844.6148
2412VLD_int_012845.1123So, you've known my mom a long [time.]2847.0380
2413VLD_se0_ag4_f_022846.5298[Yeah.] Ever since she was out of high school.2849.2063
2414 2849.7472[Before] she got out of high [school.]2851.3372
2415VLD_int_012849.8871[Mm.]2850.1435
2417 2851.1088[And] how long has the little /RD-NAME-2/ been coming?2853.6955 
2418VLD_se0_ag4_f_022854.0965Huh?2854.4369
2419VLD_int_012854.6840The little one.2855.2296
2421 2855.4721B- about a year now?2856.5072 
2422VLD_se0_ag4_f_022856.5632About a [year (laughing). <laugh>]2858.2454
2423VLD_int_012857.3699[Off and on.] Mm-hm.2858.8049
2424VLD_se0_ag4_f_022859.1639[Yeah.]2859.5137
2425VLD_int_012859.2712[But at] first she wasn't trying to.2860.4602
2426VLD_se0_ag4_f_022860.5255No, she wasn't trying to do nothing.2862.2461
2427VLD_int_012862.3627[Mm-mm.]2862.6798
2428VLD_se0_ag4_f_022862.4355[Mm-mm.]2862.8523
2429VLD_int_012862.8523But, now she know that, she come and get her [hair done.]2865.0987
2430VLD_se0_ag4_f_022864.4039[Mm-hm.]2865.0241
2431 2865.1546[Mm-hm.]2865.6769
2433 2866.0919Yeah, cause /RD-NAME-2/ wanted to come in here one or two times and leave in. And I said, no you don't leave it in there the car. You bring her on in here.2872.8193 
2435 2873.2343She ain't gonna bother me or you. <laugh>2875.9656 
2437 2876.4598Yeah, so I.2877.6256 
2439 2877.7561So, I say, you bring her on in here.2879.7938 
2441 2879.9477<laugh>2880.3487 
2442VLD_int_012881.4165N- Now she just does her little2883.1686
2444 2883.2945place she come and sit and [do her little]2885.4441 
2445VLD_se0_ag4_f_022884.6561[Mm-hm.]2885.1084
2446VLD_int_012886.0689be her little woman self and2887.5331
2448 2887.8129get her little hair done.2888.9728 
2449VLD_se0_ag4_f_022889.5883Yes sir, she's a sweet child.2891.7612