CSPAN3 Oral Histories September 7, 2015
Education, she could only hire herself out as a domestic. That is she went into suburban homes of white families and scrubbed their floors and cooked their meals and washed their clothes and cleaned their homes, things of that nature. My father probably had less than an eighth grade education, was a worked in a laundry. And then he died shortly after they married. I was three years old. Carl was a year old. And so this young bride then had to try to raise two boys as a domestic worker. She sent for her mother and brought her mother up from georgia so her mother could take care of carl and i. S...