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Transcription: [[Loud noises and talking in background throughout the tape]]

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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
likes to sit and at, at that time blacks had increased 'cause people was working, going up places, living, you know.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
and they'd come home. Naturally, they want to get on the bus and sit, but
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
I didn't come down and try and to break up, you know, anything, or make anything different, so I just stood up over the seat.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
And just came and got up and pulled way up over halfway
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
so everybody could sit down. So I was thankful for that too, though, Yeah-- [[laughter]]
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
At the theatre in Canton, were there many seats set aside-- was it set aside for--
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
No, no.

{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
How did you know where to sit?
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Uh, you, you knew your little area, and if you didn't know it, it was somebody to quickly tell you, but
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
the little area which you, where you had to sit
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
if I can remem-. 'cause in my mind, it was, it was kinda hard, too.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
But, you knew where to sit; where you couldn't sit,
[[chair scraping]]

{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Mhm.Yeah.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
as well as you did on the bus, or the train or wherever you got on at that time.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
But, wasn't no planes back then.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
But, uh-- the trains. We got on the trains you also had somewhere to sit.

{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Mmm. Did you enter through the front door?
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
We went in-- No, we went in the back door.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
We went in the back door. In, in the theatres we went in the same door. But, in the trains-- I'm thinkin' about a different door.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
until later, uh, you know it got--

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
--desegregation.

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Yeah.
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{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Mm.

{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Yep.

{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
The, uhm--
When, uh--
What did you do for amusement back in the teens?
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Uh, some few people had grassa phones [[gramophones]]. Have you ever heard that?

{SPEAKER name="Louise Spence"}
Yes.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Well, I had one when I went North. And I was so sorry that it got destroyed because I woulda liked to have it to show it to my baby.
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
Now I have a little girl I'm raising. She's 15. So, I would have love to been able to play that for her, but it got destroyed when I left the south,
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{SPEAKER name="Marella Mayberry McDavid"}
'cause see, that would have been so much of history for the younger--
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Transcription Notes:
This is Louise Spence, not Pearl. Have listened to a lot of these, and recognize the voice. Pearl is on some of these but not this one. "it was somebody to quickly tell you" not quite sure if this is the correct translation timestamp [00:10:03] not quite sure about beginning of statement timestamp: [00:10:15]