HeyJaredBlack Oral HIstories of Beaufort County
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Growing up in Aurora, North Carolina (opens the original)
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Cornelius Dudley was born at his home on March 4, 1941 in Aurora, North Carolina. He was the seventh of eleven siblings. He grew up on a farm where the cash crop was tobacco. He and most of the Black children were known as rainy-day students because, when the weather was nice, you could find them working out in the fields. When the family home caught fire, all but three rooms were destroyed. But they made do with the remaining three rooms, where 14 members of his family lived for the next four y
Growing up where everyone took care of everyone. Life memoreis from Delores Slade (opens the original)
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Born in 1950, Delores Slade grew up in the small community of Maple Grove, near Washington, NC. A place, she says, where everyone seemed to get along and would take care of each other. On the days when there was a church service, it was like old-time religion. “The windows were up, and you could hear singing and clapping all over the neighborhood. It was all very spiritual.”
What did we do to get this? Ira Harris reflects on his life during forced desegregation (opens the original)
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Ira Harris was born and raised in rural Franklin County, NC, on his family’s farm. As a child, he learned firsthand the realities of racism. He and his friend Henry were forced to attend an all-white school by a Jim Crow School Board in an attempt to show Blacks were inferior to whites during desegregation, and to stop the effort. Harris shares in painful detail the daily verbal abuse and beatings from white students, which included an attempted drowning in the school’s bathroom. In a system des
The life journies of 106-year-old Lillian Boyd (opens the original)
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Lillian Boyd was born in Washington, North Carolina, in 1919. At 106, her life experiences have been many. She and her four siblings grew up in a loving family where their parents always made sure there was food on the table, and they never went wanting. As a child, she worked in the tobacco fields, where you might find her sitting under a big tobacco leaf to get out of the sun. Racism was not a stranger. As Boyd said, “They didn’t like us and sometimes treated us like animals, so we didn’t like
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