Black Gold, Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 1975 Page: 33
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Was the depression real hard on the Blacks?
My father would borrow money fran the whites to raise our crops. We
would have to pay so many' bushels of what ever we raised to the man that
would loan my father the money. We would put up our team for mortgage.
Sometimes we couldn't pay, and we would lose our team. And we might not
bale enough cotton to pay the rent, and they would do what you call,
"clean us up" on the mortgage. It was a depression, and it was hard for
us to live at that time.
Was there any well-to-do Blacks around Waskom?
What I call well-to-do Black people were Blacks who owned their own
home. And these were quite a few who owned their own land in Waskan.
But most of the people would live on white people's farm, and their rent
houses.
How long did you teach in Louisiana?
I taught in Louisiana one year and I came to Pleasant Hill, in
Waskan or between Greenwood and Waskan. This was in Caddo Parish.
There were only two teachers at this school. I was the assistant
teacher to Mr. Webb.
How long were you at this school?
I was at this school until I was married in 1927. I started teach-
ing there in 1923 and came to Waskom in 1929 after I left Pleasant Hill.
I taught there for 45 years.
How many grades were in this school at the time you were teaching?
There were only seven grades in this school when I was teaching.
There were three teachers including myself.
Were there any blacks and whites going to school together?
No. This was only a black school at this time.
Were the white school better than the black schools?
The white schools had better facilities and more teachers than we
had, maybe longer terms than we had. We had only 5 months to teach
at that time.** ** * ** *
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