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Forms to be Filled out for Each Interview
FORM A
Circumstances of Interview
STATE INF Usk
NAME OF WORKER Serries Parterr
ADDRESS 610 W. Its* molt
DATE Alms 344160 ISIS
SUBJECT Magi folklore
Sod Levitt
FOLKLORE
NEW YORK
1417 1. 114* Street
1. Date and time of interview JUNO 7. 1919
2. Place of interview
7th Avenue sat MU Street
3. Name and address of informant AM444N0010
4. Name and address of person, if any, who .,;ut you in
touch with informant.
5. Name and address of person, if any, accoff-2an;Ting you
6. Description of rem, house, surroundings, etc.
(Use as many additional sheets as necessary, for any of the forms,
each bearing the proper heading and the number to which the material
refers.)
STATE
New York
:AYE OF TOFFEE
ADDRESS
DATE
SUBJECT
FORL:i C
TEXT OF II:TERVIE7 (UNEDITED)
Herman Pertnew
bi ,.eist 114th .treet
June 14, 149
zringe rolklore
Lovitt
6157 eest 114th Street
LVE(..:4IL IT w'—tTY
this negro stuff i r isnomer.
FOLKLOD.E
1:27 YORK
,se's black people ad we 4ot a
cmAention. But it's ac.; to be presetly diseusW. I walk downtown,
I'm a Negro like anybody else, regardless of the veneer and the large-
ness, I oan walk or valk but the veneer is always there, off the reel.
Al know the price or everyman for cis awn Ireedan. .,xplicitly
se, I mman ttzI ort e itho finu thanselves oa relief oondition,
if treys vats or clank, are people of the same irk. No digit is greater
than the whole. ,elf-piesorsw;ion nay 'co the first law al netwe but
everyoody i:etta present a united :,?halanoc, under the inzentitive of same
brotherhood or fraternal oroulisation. Those are arguments, that's all.
But inherently aptakin, a sou of an ex...slave, but I'm onna be free.
The thralldom we had to construe ain't gonna last forever. After all, we
are no denser than, the Irish and yaur ?olio* department symbolises the
advancement of the Irish, their sympathetic here towers over all
the buildin of Xreland. Wh y, beoause of my oiosent, should I be
deprived?
,dot the rt Jts as men and, if it takero twenty centuries
ze Lonna work for it. ere prepared from sertain au6lcie to most
oppositiorL. ut we pay absolutely no mind to that. If you must
have your axiom to be applied. Atria& Name to us. You *Genet
specifloally point tome in all the annals of time, it's US.
bemea bive you a little predioament and I ain't no sage.
The very Homeless are toping to stop fighting the Jews and all the
?sople of Islamic) tandenoy le 4,owns unite for their owe good.