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houao, wirroundings, eta.,
Znterviertook plum in hie bedroom* A 1in but neat room with
1ain iron bed in me corner, drosser in another, small hosting
stay, moor venter of room, Two rookors and 1 otraiGht dhaire
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NAM OF ADDRUS 030
DA T% Oat. 17/ 19811
SUB CT Aeerloan Fellealpre
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1. \.noertrip Nem*
2. Pleee and date of births Hari= Awry Nee lark, tybrip, 3, 1870
3. iPamilys three
4. Plays lived ins with date*. !Owed to C 1 dense rungeters
and to Yazoo, ;Aso. to Linooln in 1911 and here often one sineoe
6. .....duoation, with dates Finithed college at Liverall University in
7ser Orleans, 19DO.
6. Occupations, and aeounplishaents, with datee. z'oeta1. .es41 eerviee
far thirty five years until retirement.
7. poeial skills and intemsta oadInc
8. ouplunity and religious aetivitiess z:seventh SiLyr Adventist.
V. Deseriptioa of informants Mork, slorwler, real dark*
lOs Cther points tAined in nterviews ;:entally alert.
FORM C
Text of interview (Unedited)
NAME OF WORKER Albert Burks ADDRESS 239 Se, 21,
DATZ Ootober 17. 1958
SUBJECT American rolkplore
NArr, AND ADDRESS OF INFORMANT P411.1 -44411k
"I was born in Barisal Terry, Nev: York. M7 grandfather was a native
of Afrioan. the Eruvian tribe. The i..1*uvians unlike the Liberian had a
very high culture, their lineage mobs traoed back to King Soloman. Be
was never a alave but when they had a tribal uprising against white
invader*. the Eruvians were defeated and he stowayed on a lumber ship to
Liverpool England, and became a subz"ect of that country.
It was there where my father was born and one of his favorite jobs
was attendin6 the oarriagos of Queen Victoria. He (lame to the state
when he vv,s twenty.
MY name Pjl.E.Rill was taken partly from Tribal Chieftain of the
Eruvian tribe. The P. stand for Ping; the Y. for 11unni and the E. for
il'efiser, they wore all important tribesman. I named my two girls
Zan** and Zickaden. They were two generals in the .ruvian army.
Our family have been Seven Day Adventist clear from the day the
missionary taught my grand -father that religion and taught him how to
speak the Englith language.
Since my retirement I have been quite aotive in the organisation
of the National Association of Lail Carriers. One of the greatest mono
ants of my life ;4r4 when on the convention floor in Philadelehia.
before twenty thousand delegates, I led the to defeat the charter
amendment to our constitution whereby the Negroes would have their
separately and the white there affn.
deneoratie.
AU of
allege eduoationi one is now a doctor
and oormeoted with 4 in os ttrtizda. sy other daujater died
eouple of years the only Negro girl to tpeduate front
the Le4allef,w at ths University of Nebraska. Doan in lase° she was a
meat friend of Senator Albots.
have spent coils a number or years in Linooin !*t I lova the
south and uant to die there* le white Mks arc better to you and will
help you nere than the nerthernwhite fella*