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[[strikethrough]] they [[/strikethrough]] ^[[he]] would pick. So Mr. Chance picked me to be his messenger. I did nothing but sit out in front of his office. I got the salary of a clerk. Helen Raymond worked for the assistant postmaster. Helen Bailey worked for the supervisor of a mail[[strikethrough]]-in[[/strikethrough]] ^[[mailing]] division and sat in the back. When the First World War was over, they wouldn't even [[strikethrough]] let us go in and give us [[/strikethrough]] a clerkship like the White girls had. They had us wrapping [[strikethrough]] bundles [[/strikethrough]] ^[[broken packages]]. Segregation has been kind of messy ^[[and dumb]]. I always wondered how could they tell if you had 1/8 negro blood in you, you had so much white blood in you, so much Indian blood -- how in the devil could they tell just what you had in you. Silly. After the Civil War, and even before that, the Whites who had fathered the[[strikethrough]]se[[/strikethrough]] Negro men who turned out to be very fair [[strikethrough]] saw that they had and [[/strikethrough]] ^[[those they]] cared for [[strikethrough]] these children [[/strikethrough]] ^[[about the Negro they had Fathered]]. They would give him money, and tell them to go north and lose themselves^[[,]] so that they could make a living. A lot of the fellows who were in Alma's class at Armstrong and went to some of [[strikethrough]] those [[/strikethrough]] ^[[the]] northern schools for engineering were very fair, ^[[and]] very good looking [[strikethrough]] too [[/strikethrough]]. Emerson Goines(?) a very good looking fellow took engineering. Harold Murray took engineering from Cornell. Harold went to South America. So many of them lost themselves. Just left the race and went [[strikethrough]] on [[/strikethrough]] down ^[[to]] South America or somewhere they could pass ^[[and make a living]]. Harold Murray, the cousin of ^[[ [[underlined]] Madam [[/underlined]] Evanti]] [[strikethrough]] Tibbs [[/strikethrough]], married a colored girl. She was the sister to the NAACP secretary [[strikethrough]] that [[/strikethrough]] ^[[wife who]]  married Walter White. They lived in Mexico. Harold learned to speak Spanish. He played and sang beautifully.