Audio
Ms. Clara Maddox Audio Clip
Transcript
It was segregated, we just couldn’t go, you could go into the stores to buy, like the drug stores, you know they used to sell banana splits that’s what all children love, but we could go in there and buy them, but you couldn’t sit down and eat, you had to um just get what you was gonna get and come out. And as I say, all the places were segregated, there were signs up on the wall for water fountains, they’d be together now, right, close together, but colored would be on one side and they’d put white on the other side, so that’s the way that was,. Then you’d have to go around to the back, to the doors, for service. It was just, it was, that’s the way it was, but it didn’t bother us because they hadn’t started with the Civil rights thing yet, we didn’t know any better, that’s just the way life was, it really didn’t make us feel bad. But um, in our neighborhood, we lived in a neighborhood where… [recording cuts off]
Description
Ms. Clara Maddox talks about her experience with segregation. This is one small clip of a larger interview done for the NPS African American Oral History Project.
Duration
1 minute, 23 seconds
Credit
Lorenzo Bright
Date Created
11/21/2017
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