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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
--went away with her.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Huh.

{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
And she left the twins. And Buddy raised the children.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Mm. Did you socialize with the other black families?

{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
Huh?
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Did you-- the-- did you ever go to the movies with the other black families?
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
No. They were older, they were all older.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
They were all older than us.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
They-- The children were all older than me. See, I was next to the youngest

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Mm-hmm.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
in the family. Margaret was a baby, and I was next to the youngest.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
But we had a different life altogether.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
Different-- Everything is different.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
What did-- What did the other black families do for a living?
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
Ahhh.

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
One ran a boarding house.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
[[Cross talk]] Let me see.

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Okay.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
Mrs. Scott, she stayed at home. Mr. Scott worked.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
The preacher came from out of town to preach in the little colored church they were going to open.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
And when Mr. Scott came home for lunch, Mrs. Scott had gone away with the preacher.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
With the preacher! [[Laughs]]

{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
The preacher stole his wife. [[Laughs]]
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
How often had the preacher come to the house?
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
That preacher hadn't been there no time.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
And he fell in love with Mrs. Scott-- Mrs. Scott was a ugly woman!
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
I mean ugly!
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
And Mr. Scott had punished Mrs. Scott, [[slapping sound]] and the preacher came in--he had a room with them while he was preaching
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
for some revival of something in the-- the colored church that they were going to open.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
And Mr.-- The preacher came home for lunch, and Mr. Scott had tied Mrs. Scott; back of the bed because-- for punishment.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
And he untied her and took her away.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Huh. Hmm.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
Now that's some story, eh?

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Yeah! Yeah.
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[[laughter]]

{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
The minister!

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Did you-- yeah.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Did you go to the colored church?
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
Yes.

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
[[Cross talk]] In Emporium?
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
They opened a little colored church; Mrs. Graham, she thought that the-- that she should open a colored church.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
She had read where there were colored churches, so she rented the room in the back of the library,
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
and Haddie would play the piano and sing. Haddie thought she could play the piano and sing hymns, and she never could sing.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
And we went.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
And Mrs. Graham, she was-- she had the preacher, she'd always get a preacher from someplace to come and preach.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
And they want the-- Long ago, they want to have their own church.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
But it didn't last long.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
And the library gave them the room to have their church in.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
And they didn't charge them.

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
Uh-huh.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
We had one newspaper.
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{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
What was the newspap-- one black newspaper?
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
One black newspaper.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
We had one white newspaper, I don't think we had a black newspaper then.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
When I came down here we had the Amsterdam, but up there we didn't--

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
[[Cross talk]] In Emporium.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
Huh?

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
You-- we're still talking about Emporium.
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{SPEAKER name="Victoria West"}
No, we did have no black paper in Emporium.

{SPEAKER name="Pearl Bowser"}
[[Cross talk]] I see.
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