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Transcription: [[talking and loud noises can be heard throughout the tape]]

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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
I didn't mind going where she was teaching, and she do teach at a lot of black schools.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Mmm.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
But this school was one of our oldest high schools in Texas, and they don't have nothing out there to offer so they wanna go--
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Mmm.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Well why go out there man, trying to do anything, you wanna get-- you see-- okay, if you get what you can get out of high school,
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and you have the opportunity, you will have the opportunity here to start the working at ten dollars an hour.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
And that isn't too bad; not for Jackson anyway.
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
It's not bad for New York either. [[All laughing]]
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
So anyway, I wanted her to get all she can. And then she's goin to be a beautician if she gets those two things.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
She should be able to make it.

{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Uhm huh.

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Uhm huh.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
And then, if she want to go to college later, good.
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Uhm huh.

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Means she's equipped to go.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Right.

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
She's prepared to go.

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Right. Money wise. [[laughs]]

{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
[[laughs]]
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
She's good in the, you know, head. [[inaudible]] It takes a lot of money maybe to go to college, something like 40,000 dollars.
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Umm.

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
That's a lot of money.

{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
That's a lot of money.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
But you don't have to have that much at one time.

{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Uhm huh.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
But you have to have it.

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Umm.

{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Yeah.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Eventually, you have to have it all. [[Laughs]]

{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
[[Laughs]].
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Right. [[Laughs]]
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
You gotta pay for shoes. Right up to the grave. You gotta have money.

{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Yeah.

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Right.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
If you can't pay it, your family has to pay it.

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Right, yeah.
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Thank you, Mrs. [[?]]. Do you-- Do you have more thoughts about movies you'd like to tell us before we're finished.
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Or was it very important in your life, seeing films?
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Oh, yeah. I always liked to look at things, when I had the-- when I have the opportunity.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
[[talking softly]] I like to look at things. Whatever is [[?]] [[seemly]]. When you look at my grandmother,
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
back in her days, she'd like to look at; she couldn't read; and try to learn to read.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
My granddad had learned to read cause he preached back when, you know, so he had to learn how to read to be able to preach.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
But my grandmother didn't learn to read, but she used to love to look at pictures, and I always wondered why.
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Transcription Notes:
At 00:35:00 was an indecipherable filler word - There are even more that I couldn't figure out, but maybe nobody can.

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