I took a four-years' course there when it was a fine institution.
It's gone down now.
"I was the oldest boy. We had two mules. We farmed on the halves. We
made fifteen bales of cotton a year. Never did make less than ten or
twelve.
"I have been in the ministry fifty-three years. I was transferred to
Arkansas in 1883 in the conference which met at Humboldt. My first work
here was in Searcy in 1884.
"I think the question of Negro suffrage will work itself out. As we get
further away from the Civil War and the reconstruction, it will be less
and less opposition to the Negro's voting. You can see a lot of signs of
that now.
"I don't know about the young people. They are gone wild. I don't know
what to say about them.
"I think where men are able to work I think it is best to give them
work. A man that is able to work ought to be given work by the
government if he can't get it any other way."
Interviewer: Mrs. Bernice Bowden
Person interviewed: Lyttleton Dandridge
2800 W. Tenth Street, Pine Bluff, Arkansas
Age: 80
"I was told I was born in '57 in East Carroll Parish, Louisiana.
"Oh, I can remember before the War broke out. Yes ma'am, I had good
owners.
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