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and we'd go up and down. 'We had a "flying
Jenny." You choose one large size tree (not
high). Bore a hole and drive a bolt of 12 or 13
feet lone. Put it there and then one get on
each end. You carry it around and around just
like a spinning top or a merry-eo-round. This
is what we had for recreation to play with.
We didn't know nothing about baseball."
BLACK GOLD asked Mr. Gladney how he felt
about integration and voting. He replied,
"For integration there has been a lot of
changes since the times I was young. Al I that's
happened since the teensy about 1913 or as far
back as 1910. We didn't have school facilities
like they have now. We bought our own books.
The government didn't furnish any of these. We
only had three books, (speller, reader, 'rith-
metic.) There were three communities (Jordon
Quarters Mineral Springs' Hollands Quarters.)
We all went to the same school. The blacks be-
ean voting in 1920. You had to be twenty-one
and have land in order to vote."
To conclude our story, we asked Mr. Gladney
what he thinks about the younger generation.
This is what he said.
"Its pretty hard to say. This younger gen-
eration are not keeping the important things of
life, but having a good time. There are some
buying new homes. They have more advantages
than I did. What they make out of it is hard
to say.
BLACK GOLD thanks Mr. Gladney for accepting
us in his home, and sharing part of his life
with us. He told the interviewers, "These were
much more, but to recall it back to the time is
kind of hard to do and say."39
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