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Russellville, Arkansas
Age 72
"Lucy Cotton's my name, and I was born on the tenth day of June, 1865, jist two months after the surrender. No suh,
I ain't no kin to the other Cottons around here, so far as I knows. My mother was Jane Hays, and she was owned by
a master named Wilson.
"I've belonged to the Holiness Church six years. (They call us 'Holiness,' but the real name is Pentecostal.)
"Yes suh, there's a heap of difference in folks now 'an when I was a girl---especially among the young people. I
think no woman, white or black, has got any business wastin' time around the votin' polls. Their place is at home
raisin' a family. I hear em sometimes slinging out their 'damns' and it sure don't soun' right to me.
"Good day, mistah. I wish you well---but the gov'ment ain't gonna do nothing. It never has yit."
Interviewer Miss Irene Robertson"
