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Book/Printed MaterialImage 1 of [I am a Negro] Approximately 2400 words SOUTH CAROLINA WRITERS PROJECT LIFE HISTORY TITLE I AM A NEGRO Date of Writing Mardi 15 1939 Name of Person Interviewed Walter Coachman colored Fictitious Name No Mmie Given...
- Contributor: Walter Coachman - Atwell, F. Donald
- Date: 1939-03-15
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 2 of [I am a Negro] Project 1655 FDAtwell CharlestonSC I 14A iZ0 Approximately 2400 words I am a iiegro A more whimsy of fate made me black and you white It might easily have been the other...
- Contributor: Walter Coachman - Atwell, F. Donald
- Date: 1939-03-15
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 3 of [I am a Negro] Project 1655 CbarlestonSC AM A NEGRO Page 2 Pappy was a good Christian Negro He was too meek to suit my mother I remember my first experience in looking out for number...
- Contributor: Walter Coachman - Atwell, F. Donald
- Date: 1939-03-15
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 4 of [I am a Negro] Project 1655 PDAtwell CharlestonSC age 3 I IN e NEGLO against it She had given me the yard work to help me stay in school There was an acre lot next to...
- Contributor: Walter Coachman - Atwell, F. Donald
- Date: 1939-03-15
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 5 of [I am a Negro] Project 1655 FDAtwell Charleston8C Page 4 I AN A NEGRO then the died in Columbia hospital it nearly killed me I was about twentytwo then and graduating from school I hoped so...
- Contributor: Walter Coachman - Atwell, F. Donald
- Date: 1939-03-15
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 6 of [I am a Negro] Project 1655 FDAtwell CharlestonSC Page 5 I AM A NIX1h0 I remember the day the grocery man came to the house He shouted to me in the yard Noy nigger gimme a...
- Contributor: Walter Coachman - Atwell, F. Donald
- Date: 1939-03-15
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 7 of [I am a Negro] Project 1655 FDAtwell CharlestonSC I AU A NEGRO Page 6 Now I had learned from Miss Alice that diplomacy would always get you further than simply being pigheaded because you were right...
- Contributor: Walter Coachman - Atwell, F. Donald
- Date: 1939-03-15
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 8 of [I am a Negro] Project 1655 FDAtwell CharlestonSC I AM A NEGRO Page 7 In the last few years I think the Negro has forgiven a lot because he sees so many poor white people living...
- Contributor: Walter Coachman - Atwell, F. Donald
- Date: 1939-03-15
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 9 of [I am a Negro] Project 165 FDAtwell CharlestonSC I 11 A LFGi0 Page 8 Even the colored race sticks together better than the white people I cant understand it all I have noticed that when a...
- Contributor: Walter Coachman - Atwell, F. Donald
- Date: 1939-03-15
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 10 of [I am a Negro] Project 1655 FDAtwell Charleston C I AU I bliORQ Page 9 I have told him what its all about and me and his mammy are sacrificing to keep him in school Our...
- Contributor: Walter Coachman - Atwell, F. Donald
- Date: 1939-03-15
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Book/Printed MaterialImage 11 of [I am a Negro] Project 1655 FDAtwell CharlestonSC I AM A NEGRO Page 10 I want them to become men and women worthy of the best treatment any Negro can hope to receive and I want...
- Contributor: Walter Coachman - Atwell, F. Donald
- Date: 1939-03-15