Johnson / Moving
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Interviewer: You said in the early thirties. So, you would have been four or five? Johnson: Something like that, maybe not quite that old. As I recall, I think around twenty-nine, there was epidemic somewhere in the area and I think my grandfather and sister died but it was things I don’t—only heard about later and it was not too important to me at the time. I didn’t record too much of it, but bits and pieces and I also think that it was the beginning of the Depression and, of course, a lot of things went haywire. So, they moved back to Rockdale and before too long, as I recall, they moved to Houston and he started working at a wholesale company.
| Interview | Interview with James E. Johnson |
| Subjects | Family › Family Histories and Traditions |
| Family › Extended Family Networks | |
| Family › Childhood Experiences | |
| Historic Periods › Jim Crow Period | |
| Oral Tradition › Oral Tradition of the Great Depression | |
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| Interview date | 2015-07-21 |
| Interview source | CRBB Summer 2015 |
| Interviewees | Johnson, James E. |
| Interviewers | Acuña-Gurrola, Moisés |
| Bynum, Katherine | |
| Duration | 00:01:15 |
| Citation | "Moving ," from James E. Johnson oral history interview with Moisés Acuña-Gurrola and Katherine Bynum, July 21, 2015, Prairie View, TX , Civil Rights in Black and Brown Interview Database, https://crbb.tcu.edu/clips/686/moving, accessed April 25, 2024 |
