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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
you're in 4th or 5th grade. Um. How long were you here in Jackson (--)
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
I've been in Jackson ever since.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Oh, you have been here ever since.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
See, that's when my father bought the business in 1924,
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
and that's when I came from upstairs on the [[??]] from where we lived,
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
and the oldest [[??]], and come over here to school. And I went to high school here, but I finished high school at Jackson College.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
In that period of my life, and I'm talking about 1924, 1930 period of time
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
there were, uh, no schools in the state of Mississippi where you could, uh, go for a ninth grade education.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
So, whites who could afford it rented homes or bought homes in Jackson
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
and enrolled in schools in Jackson, Jackson College in [[??]] They'd stay all week until Friday,
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
and then go home Saturday, Sunday and come back.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
In fact, uh, since this man just recently asked me, asked me about-- They have some of that in the background,
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
in fact, I think I was a classmate with his mother at Jackson.

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Umm.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
[[??]], but they came to Jackson City from Natchez,
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
from all over who wanted their children to have something more than 8 grades,
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
and that was all they could get in their towns.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
But, uh, for me it was a blessing
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
because a person named Marie Young was a teacher of French - Je peux parle francais. Mon dieu!
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[[Laughter]]
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
Um, her father was Colonel Charles Young, the first uh --
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
[[??]] He was the highest ranking officer in the 1920s.

[[Cross Talk]]

{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
That's right.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
Uh huh, yes, that's right, and they came from Ohio - near Wilberforce, but here he's put way over here in Africa.
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
His wife was left him with these two children. Boy and Girl. Marie Young was her name,
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{SPEAKER name="Claire Collins Harvey"}
and so that, that the father-- the children could have some life with their father, um...
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