Delta Jewels by Alysia Burton Steele

Author:Alysia Burton Steele
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science / Ethnic Studies / African American Studies, History / African American, Photography / Subjects & Themes / Historical
Publisher: Center Street
Published: 2015-04-07T00:00:00+00:00

I wasn’t makin’ but $10 a week and $2 of that was going into a Christmas savings. That left $8. [I had] four children. I saved my money.

In the evening, they would take me and we would ride all over town and look at lots. She would say [at some lots], “No, Becky, you don’t want to stay here, that’s not a good place to raise your children.”

The prefab houses—her husband knew how much you could buy them, for a two-bedroom. He told me to buy my lot and we would buy one of those prefab houses and get someone to assemble it. That’s how I got my house. And she knew all about carpentry. She put my curtain brackets up. I’m over in her house fixin’ her dinner and she down here nailin’ my curtains up.

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