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HomeMy WebLinkAboutLincoln High School A. Carter• HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMITTEE City of College Station, Texas 77840 ORAL HISTORY DATA SHEET I hereby give and grant to the HISTORIC PRESERVATION COMMITTEE, City of College Station, Texas, for whatever purposes may be determined, the tape recordings, transcriptions, and contents of this oral history interview. Also, permission is hereby given for any duplications of original photos, documents, maps, etc. useful to the history project to be returned unharmed. Interviewee releases, relinquishes and discharges CITY, its officers, agents and employees, from all claims, demands, and causes of action of every kind and character, including the cost of defense thereof, for any injury to, including the cost of defense thereof for any injury to, including death of, any person, whether that person be a third person, Interviewee, or an employee of either of the parties hereto, and any loss of or damage to property, whether the same be that either of the parties hereto or of third parties, caused by or alleged to be caused by, arising out of, or in connection with Interviewee provision of historical information, whet , er or not said claims, demands and causes of action in whole or in part are covered by insurance. 1 ! Interviewer (Please Print) Sign.ture of Interviewer Place of Interview List of photos, documents, mans. etc. k °1 7. 10 # 1 Int (Please rriint) Signature H of Interv ee /-) Albennie Carter Name ■1 \ /VOf 1( A ress ■ 1 X 77g0 Telepihone i�UC�— ' 2� — t i p Date of Birth 6 a, Place of Birth (,i ar ley,v+ Cr; ,..f/ Date INTERVIEW STATUS: Completed Initial In progress Interviewee agrees to and shall indemnify and hold harmless CITY, its officers, agents and employees, from and against any and all claims, losses, damages, causes of action, suits and liability of every kind, attorney's fees, for injury to or death of any person, or for damage to any property, arising out of or in connection with the use of the items and information referenced aboved by CITY, its agents, representatives, assigns, invitees, and participants under this grant. Such indemnity shall apply where the claims, losses damages, causes of action, suits or liability arise in whole or in part from the negligence of city. Lincoln High School Reunion - 6 July 1996 Moderator: Mollie Guin Interviewee: Albennie Carter MG: OK. And your name is? AC: Albennie Carter MG: OK AC: Nicks Carter. MG: OK. First of all, are you native to College Station? AC: No. I lived here from '41 to '46. MG: And you attended school here? AC: At Lincoln School. MG: At Lincoln School. So if you're not a native, then you moved here from.. . AC: Burleson County. MG: Burleson County. OK. All Right. What is your favorite memory of College Station? AC: I don't have a favorite memory. MG: Anything in your childhood or in school that you remember that's a favorite memory? AC: No. MG: Ok, all right. How did you travel to and from school? AC: On the bus and sometimes I walked. I lived on the other side of College Hills and we rode the bus. Sometimes we missed, we walked. MG: That's what happened when I missed, I'd walk an hour and a half to school. If I missed the bus, I'd walk. All right, who was your favorite teacher? AC: Who was my favorite teacher. Miss... her name is Adams Owens, and Mr. Hawkings. MG: All right, what subject did they teach? AC: Miss Adams taught homemaking, and I think he taught music. MG: All right, describe, because we're trying to get a feel of this era or time, describe the type of clothing and how it's alike or different from what you'd find now. AC: Clothing was nothing like today. Just plain clothes. Cheap. Now they're high priced. MG: OK, all right. Girls had to wear dresses? They were not allowed to wear shorts or anything like that? AC: No, no. MG: OK, where did you do your shopping? AC: I really don't know. I guess we had to go to Bryan to shop. I guess J.C. Penney. MG: Now, are there any neighborhood stores that you know of that are still in business around here? AC: I can't remember no stores around here. MG: All right, what part did church play in education and in the community? AC: Church every Sunday. MG: Was there a cafeteria here? AC: I don't think there was no cafeteria here when we were here. There's a lot of years between me and you. MG: How did the war affect your education? AC: It didn't affect my education. Just the fact that my brother had to go to war. MG: The second World War? AC: Yes. MG: All right, what was your favorite subject? AC: I think it was spelling. MG: Is there anything else that you could add that you could tell me about what College Station and the neighborhood, anything, was like during this time that your were here? AC: A lot of difference between now than it was then, because the Negroes were and the whites were MG: OK, and thank you very much.