“The Ku Klux kept the niggers scared.  They cowed them down so that they wouldn’t go to the polls.  I stood there one night when they were counting ballots.  I belonged to the County Central Committee.  I went in and stood and looked.  Our ballot was long; theirs was short.  I stood and seen Clait Turner calling their names from our ballots.  I went out and got Rube Turner and then we both went back.  They couldn’t call the votes that they had put down they had.  Rube saw it.

“Then they said, ‘Are you going to test this?’

“Rube said, ‘Yes.’  But he didn’t because it would have cost too much money.  Rube was chairman of the committee.

“The Ku Klux did a whole lot to keep the niggers away from the polls in Washington and Baldwin counties.  They killed a many a nigger down there.

“They hanged a Ku Klux for killing his wife and he said he didn’t mind being hung but he didn’t want a damn nigger to see him die.

“But they couldn’t keep the niggers in Hancock County away from the polls.  There was too many of them.

Work in Little Rock

“I came to Little Rock, November 1, 1903.  I came here with surveyors.  They wanted to send me to Miami but I wouldn’t go.  Then I went to the mortar box and made mortar.  Then I went to the school board.  After that I ain’t had no job.  I was too old.  I get a little help from the government.

Opinions of the Present

“I think that the young folks ought to make great men and women.  But I don’t see that they are making that stride.  Most of them is dropping below the mark.  I think we ought to have some powerful men and women but what I see they don’t stand up like they should.

Own Family

“I have three daughters, no sons.  These three daughters have twelve grandchildren.”

Interviewer:  Miss Irene Robertson
Person interviewed:  Frozie Moss (dark mulatto), Brinkley, Arkansas
Age:  69

“When my grandma whut raised me got free she and grandpa come to Memphis and didn’t stay there long till they went to Crittenden County on a man’s farm.  My grandma was born in Alabama and my grandpa in Virginia.  I know he wasn’t in the Nat Turner rebellion, for my mother had nine children and all but me at Holly Grove, Mississippi.  I was born up in Crittenden County.  She died.  I remember very little about my father.  I jes’ remember father a little.  He died too.  My grand parents lived at Holly Grove all during the war.  They used to talk about how they did.  She said hardest time she ever lived through was at Memphis.  Nothing to do, nothing to eat and no places to stay.  I don’t know why they left and come on to Memphis.  She said her master’s name was Pig’ge.  He wasn’t married.  He and his sisters lived together.  My grandmother was a slave thirty years.  She was a field hand.