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Thomas [[strikethrough]] down [[/strikethrough]] from the ^[[Muscogee]] club. The whites said, "Oh well, that's all right, you all go on". They were looking for someone who they thought had done something to some white woman. They were going to lynch him. They had these ropes and chains in their hands. So momma said this is it. That's ^[[another]] the reason we are here.

Not that we came to Washington and found it desegregated. We found a better school system. At these schools the teachers had gone to the Normal School. [[strikethrough]] You [[/strikethrough]] ^[[One]] had very good [[strikethrough]] teachers, and they were very [[/strikethrough]], dedicated ^[[teachers]]. In the high school you got [[strikethrough]] all [[/strikethrough]] ^[[the teachers from]] the Ivy League ^[[Schools]]; what Negroes could go to the Ivy League [[strikethrough]] Colleges, you got]]. There was Mr. Bassett, whose father was a minister to Liberia through the appointment of one of those Presidents. Miss Atwood, who had finished Smith College and taught at M Street. Miss Riggs, who was a very good English teacher. Garnett Wilkinson, who had finished, I think, Amherst. Shermont(sp?) Jackson was the principal of the high school when we came here. He had finished Amherst and was a mathematician. 

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[[strikethrough]] Miss Patterson was one of the first principals at the M Street High School. [[/strikethrough]] She was the first Negro graduate of Overlyn ^[[Oberlin]] College in 1862 with a degree. The house next door was built by her father.[[circled]] ^[[This [[paragraph symbol]] belongs to the history of M St High]] [[strikethrough]] The education we got here was so different than what we had gotten, although the people there (in Columbus?) were dedicated. When we came here to visit the schools,[[/strikethrough]] Alma had no trouble at all in getting into the high school. She didn't have to be, as they say, "put back".