<\/big><\/small><\/small><\/big><\/big>When I was a child in the 1930\u2019s there was, of course, segregation here in the South. This was during the Great Depression and everyone had a hard time. I\u2019m sure it was exceptionally hard for the Colored (that\u2019s the name used in those days)\u00a0 population of Greenfield and the surrounding area. I do recall that in those days my parents would furnish some of the Colored people milk and eggs in return for some work including being a Nanny to me.
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During my childhood years most of us had friends that were Colored and played together quite frequently. One of my friends that lived on the street behind where we lived at that time was Lee Jr. Sain. They left Greenfield while I was still young and I heard that his wife had killed him many years ago.
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| Lee Jr. Sain and Joe Stout<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n \u00a0 Greenfield had no Colored section of town as such, but there were some houses in practically every part of town that were occupied by them. About 10% of the population of Greenfield was Colored and is still today about that ratio. \u00a0 Here in Greenfield we had grammar school and also dear old GHS, the high school. \u00a0 The colored, had separate schools but the only high school for them was in Martin and until the 1940\u2018s we had no school buses for either black or white. There were the one room, one teacher schools for all the kids that lived on the farms out in the country. \u00a0 The local colored grammar school was located on East Main St.(Soup St. extended)\u00a0 which was also Highway #124 which went to McKenzie. Professor Dodd was the Principal and teacher of this school along with Bertha Smith and Bennie Malone. \n |
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