Georgia Houston and Mikelle Moore

00:01 Has Iran ever yours?

00:08 Okay, my name is mikkel more and I'm 40 years old today's date. It's Tuesday, March 19th, 2019 and we are at storycorps Atlanta and I am going to be interviewing my grandmother. All right, who I call Granny, right so granny introduce yourself and I'm 92 years old.

00:50 Where were you born in Tifton, Georgia? Okay. Okay. All right. And what's your maiden name?

01:01 Malaysia Davis, Georgia furlough

01:08 A marriage I was married to how we was Houston. Okay, what were your parents names?

01:18 My prayers save my mother was dating Georgie prayer low.

01:28 I'm sorry. My mother was David, Georgie.

01:36 Virginia

01:37 Luis Jorge Luis Cleveland furlough. Okay. All right. You want to tell us something about your mother?

01:54 Lowe's ceiling fans

01:58 Just a little makeup. Okay.

02:02 What about your father anything? You want to tell us about your father? What year that was?

02:17 I can't recover. All right, do they ever come home and tell you about being a fireman and working at the railroad?

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02:38 Buy anything right now. It's not important, What about your grandparents? Do you know your grandmother's name?

02:48 My brother's name.

02:51 Avenger Wallace

02:56 She just cease.

02:59 What do I have to bring to the baby? Okay. What about your grandfather? What's his name?

03:07 My grandfather was dating during Louis from Louis. Right? Do you know anything about Durham Lewis?

03:20 He was so white.

03:24 Man in the chair, My grandmother was like it on their phone.

03:36 He always gets my grandmother.

03:41 To come up to clean the house and say she would cry like a baby cuz she knew for a what's going on.

03:52 She just rolled her to that and him, but in the meantime, they said he wanted to marry her but he could married to the bank that stays.

04:08 And she had two children and this girl she was named.

04:22 JoJo Leave should I chew, Indiana?

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04:29 I know I think she went to George Wallace.

04:36 Louis said think that's the way she within the do.

04:41 Her and his sister were assisting with a leave.

04:52 In fact, the brightest my grandmother died having second baby Eva Marie and my My grandmother raised that favor on, so you do you have any siblings and how many siblings do you have to see a live? Do I lived three died in childbirth oldest brother for a low

05:42 The death of was George Furlow and

05:48 Save myself, Georgia per load

05:53 And my sisters playing Livonia.

05:58 Play in. My brother's name is Eugene Earl of sister.

06:11 The name Brittany Berry lover and

06:17 There was Bobby Lee Bruno.

06:21 Heather Rose, ferlo. Okay. And is there anything that you remember about your siblings that passed like Eugene and Floyd and Uncle Tim? No, do you remember anything special about Uncle Tim? Is there anything special about Uncle Tim that you remember? He was sick Department Filling Station business station

07:08 Oh why she didn't they call the washateria?

07:16 Handy aged of a pool room. Okay. Alright. And what about Floyd Floyd Floyd?

07:29 Your little brother George was Dad Denny's right? I remember that what about Eugene future mistakes. I didn't he was in the service sideswipe better Adrian Varela. He was on his way to Philadelphia to see his wife. And what about your younger brother that died?

08:07 Turn off voice. That was my baby. Such a sweet little baby little boy. He was 5 years old even get the wash tub stand. We washed out's said he gets the chance of turning over and he would call itself preaching. It is actually you sound like the preacher was preacher know. He sounded like a preacher. Okay, how do you pass free and they were playing in the style of the Apple watch?

08:57 And he was

09:00 Play in Egypt the boy pushed you off the porch and something in the monia.

09:13 If you have a 50 by 10 days after what?

09:21 All right. And what was your role in the house when you were younger?

09:26 What was your role in the house when you were younger? What did you do?

09:30 Well, I was the second I saw about the simplest and what did your siblings call you sister? Okay.

09:46 In fact everybody in the neighborhood Kobe sister really do you think it was because you were so sweet and helpful.

09:56 Could be alright, do you remember the depression?

10:05 When you were younger was your family affected by it at all. If it didn't bother us as much as some I need my daddy was a good provider. He was a wonderful father and brother a wedding for parents.

10:28 And my daddy always was a good provider for have a family and the neighborhood. In fact about life ever have a family house for the neighborhood celebration. He would come to our house. They always come to our house my father he provided he raised his cows holds a chicken.

11:07 ABC V 853 you raise it up with the Davis. Do you remember my special care that you like the name Belle?

11:22 A cow named Bill why she was really she was pregnant. She was she was guys and Roxy was a little while. She didn't want nobody to give me a call but my brother.

11:46 Oh my grandmother. She brought her when she got older and she was disabled when able to take care of self. She moved in with us and she ate it and the kids. Are you always laughing when I would tell you I'm but I'd never see the car with big tits. Like I never seen it in my life. I still haven't seen one.

12:25 Evan. Laugh at me

12:35 All right. So what about chickens? Did you ever have to get a chicken for dinner to bring it in the house ready for dinner? And I couldn't Jello my sister good at Member One.

12:59 How's it going people gave up and he's at work and I will dance to this phone cuz we're crazy chicken at that Dave.

13:14 Hey, that's good to get a chicken and kill even cooking.

13:21 And I got the chicken. I pull it tickets and Raven be picking at Publix get over the chicken head and ran it so you ran a meeting right now.

13:43 That's just lovely.

13:47 All right. What about your education? How far did you go in school?

13:53 Elizabeth rage okay, that was fun in those days. It was high school. Okay. That was the end of high school. And how did you feel about your education growing up in the south? Is it African American?

14:09 It was real it was okay. That's cool. But when we get ready to go home.

14:17 Do you like kids said they was riding the school bus?

14:23 And Dave will come alone.

14:26 We would be riding they rewriting and they were getting rocks and throw at us and they would love.

14:36 Speediness Roseberry sometime this picture would get a different one. She is really ugly and real ID use this they have a right to the books when

15:05 Someone was Rihanna beat up have a bike over some of them, but that's what we had to use.

15:15 Now so you didn't go to school with white children. You didn't go to school with white children.

15:24 You're the man we did that. Okay.

15:33 Did you play any sports in school? Did you play any sports in school?

15:39 Basketball I love basketball. Oh, yeah. How long did you play basketball?

15:47 My brother told me I could play ball. I had to come over and cook. And so what was it in general? What was it like going up in the south at your age?

16:06 It was where teenager the kid. It was really rough. It don't mix no integration. Okay. Did you have electricity as a child when you were a little girl was there electricity in the house? And that's what I was a little girl. But as I got older my dad was one of the first to get electricity know. I don't know. I never forget that we wanted to tell you. Thanks did have a radio.

16:57 Hit that a the radio is great. Daddy radio. My daddy was going better yet. Joe Louis fight o really? Wow. It's a Vibe radio.

17:21 And forgot the needs if it wasn't Supremacy is and it was

17:31 Pleasureland Gaston with something like that, but it was a good it sounds like a piccolo and what about indoor plumbing? Did you have a restroom in the house with a flushing toilet and all that stuff? So I'm totally okay. What about TV? Did you have TV?

18:02 Nuvail. How old were you think when you got your first television?

18:08 Oh, it is a game out of a monkey Blake's. My data was one of the first to get where he was a good provider of the best. Okay. Do you remember anything from World War II?

18:32 Yes, I remember a lot of things who I want to invite to bother my mother.

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18:45 And that would help to buy.

18:48 Material to make out of school clothes and

18:59 My brother has 3 Brothers in the service of my oldest brother. He was in the army.

19:13 He stayed in the oven to 400 years and some before we gave out.

19:21 Hey fool, he was discharged.

19:24 And my brother George was in the Navy and my brother Eugene was in the Navy and how do you feel the need to freshen to get stamps to get seed dated like sugar?

19:49 Meal

19:56 Gas a lot of things that I need stamps in order to get it. Okay. And so that was pretty that was sort of the effect that the war had on the local community having a ration and things like that, right?

20:14 I didn't quite understand you I said so that was the rationing having a ration for sugar again. That was because of the war. Okay, and what about the field? Do you remember working in the fields?

20:28 Do I have to work in the fields picking velvet beans?

20:37 Happy

20:40 Beans stabbing

20:43 Butterbee's peas, Happy Garden

20:53 Have steak fajitas.

20:56 Shake shake shake shake shake your peanut butter shake if he doesn't want it to stay active Okay, and

21:12 Oh my gosh, we holds God's peanuts.

21:22 This kind of peanuts does bacterial stated that I remember holding. Okay, what about the pows that were in the field after the war? That was a German tale about the wall the Germans came over.

21:42 David Frizzell

21:45 And they did United States you still in feels that you don't have to go through different items and they was real fast. They were twice as fast as we can.

22:08 Famous fades away cuz they don't like nothing is real fast when we couldn't communicate me, we could do this and what they say they can understand what we said and so they just went to the funeral with us. They have they grew and how do they treat you?

22:36 Hoes they just take C4 Bud. Like you know, they was to themselves Eva time is okay. Can you remember any other significant events from when you were younger?

22:55 I do remember my happy leave. I don't know it but I believe my

23:07 Looks like he used to come to my house every year. Did she breaks your baby pig God for you? And he was pissed at him further than my mother said he was like if he would come in and get that with Mama like you enjoyed those with her some bleach and she said he was a kind of love you up. He was very very happy with where you like it.

23:58 Children children resemble mama

24:07 She was red-headed the two rivers red in it. It's just had baby and she had a little girl making face had red hair with the

24:25 Long red hair like my mama, my mama wouldn't forget to breathe, but her sister was a freaking face.

24:37 Okay, and I do believe that was Mama's brother.

24:44 But it was never he never got that. He probably was afraid and mama ain't supposed to ask him that but I would like to know.

24:58 Oh Mama's brother and she just didn't know it. Well brother was in his sister's cuz he my grandfather married. He bedroom light lady and she had several children and she had several boards to so with that being said, what was it like shopping in Tifton as an African American?

25:39 Well, that's

26:01 The most funniest thing has given remember but my mother

26:08 Shopping going downtown shopping. I was supposed to meet her at downtown and I was going downtown and I pray for my mother. She recognized me, but I did what I said.

26:34 And she asked me where you think you're doing use the same stores as the white people or just still has we went at large to the shopping list.

27:00 Sadiddy stores we would have to go in.

27:08 When I was your day got better after Vietnamese stores, they didn't have.

27:26 Waterford

27:29 Couches for the blade you want to put it white?

27:34 They hated hated it once do I take it back one still that's what the five and ten Cent Store Hayward for the Blakes give up for the white and but they did have a restroom.

27:55 In order for us to go to head go to restroom. We had to go to the bus station and it was

28:10 You really what decent but we'd rather go you got to go.

28:16 So we had to go over to use that is like

28:26 I got very good. I was 18 years old. How many children did you have?

28:35 I was down for that hooks and realized we was doing to you. I wish I don't think that word but he was too young you thought he was ready, but you realize that it was a flake job is so you could play around like in Madrid sell you $5 to go.

29:08 Add my second very shy went for Drury scan to detect Mary Teresa.

29:20 Have a safe.

29:23 Play Father threesome father and Linda's father and he was by the bed only of the Weavers open today.

29:37 Then who separated and then I went to

29:43 Very wet Theory husband pictures Rivers Houston and I live with you until you passed it.

29:59 1919

30:03 52 take you out and he died in 1960 died.

30:12 Okay, how many children did you have?

30:18 Go ape over again.

30:33 Hache

30:35 Hey, oh my gosh, I think.

30:41 5 children

30:53 Jack Bradley. Alright, what was Healthcare like in Tifton tell me about when you had your first child Ellis and you had to go to the hospital. How was that? Did you get to go to the hospital? Everybody else went to see how well they had to put me in labor with you?

31:24 In

31:26 Hyattsville, we did have one Hospital in Pottsville at that time was just Rosie. I think the white people goes we did have one room, but it breaks and we would see what I bring to you. I was in the room with.

31:53 To live inside tuberculosis

31:57 And it was by three women did that with the bologna some of my to prove they had different diseases.

32:12 The lady it was two of us a baby's right at the same time this lady.

32:20 Have baby boy.

32:25 Re-read classes they dismiss their

32:30 Did Raven he did lower the volume too low on gas to him and he died and she ate to look look.

32:46 Well by they was giving they had to give you some in the antibiotic cuz they talk difficult to lose me due to the fact that he gambled with a booster baby. And so they had to give you a lot of antibiotics after birth. And I guess that's what you'd be. Okay. Well so Church

33:16 What about church?

33:19 I wish we had I have the church and my mother and father made sure they be with as long as me when we was bravest ajplus to change every Rich church. Every third is third Sunday. That's what I'm reading.

33:43 And we have a big meeting.

33:48 What's a year and they never they eat outside tables outside in heat outside. We did have fun inside nothing but by then because I checked everything is so I was joining the church for that was about it between a t t a Build-A-Bear that teach every sets and missing Facebook memo.

34:34 Voting so the first time you voted we know voting wasn't the easiest thing for you to do back then. So do you think you got to vote when you are 18 years old? That was something that was really when did iPhone

34:57 But I think we just voted for President Kennedy go registration. Okay. All right, and what about the cost of things like eggs and milk? What does that cost? When you were younger you could have been a dozen eggs Providence of quarter. I guess his Miracle quote on a diamond sweet vehicle being loved by you.

35:38 Gas was the 50 gallon?

35:48 I think your first car.

35:52 First car first, VA

35:56 Busch Garden VA was a Buick.

36:04 My sister she laid. I just tried for life people like me.

36:13 Cheetah Girls

36:16 Let me try teach me how to drive in the police was behind us and she jumped over.

36:32 She jumped over me to get this done if we have to get up every year.

36:45 What about some lessons? What's the most important lesson you've learned in your life at 92 years old?

36:56 Traveling has been one of my best enjoy my mother and to raise my children for them to be able to take care of very dependent and to get that education and to be able to take care of sales had to brief. They have made me happy to see you grow up faster.

37:31 Dylan real

37:33 And they've been a blessing. So what about lessons? What lessons can you say you've learned in your life?

37:42 What lesson did I like what I was going to school? No, no lessons like you know I've learned.

37:54 Hello, I learned a lot of lesson educating you get very messy ride with you. He went back best route to get married his teacher. Love your little lover lesson from you. I love you don't want to lose you.

38:28 What about Traditions? What traditions do you think you passed down?

38:34 What about your dishes is 334 this so you wish to be treated and I know God will bless. You don't have a battle. Do you have any regrets in your life?

38:50 I have had some regrets my they pass that's all right.

39:04 What about a blessing or Miracle that you like to share? Can you think of any special blessing?

39:12 I have a special blessing to have six children and they never give you any problems. No more minor problem. Never going to jail though doing things and to be in the feeling.

39:39 But son

39:42 He went to school.

39:46 And he was able to most of surprised to vote himself. He referred as long as hell.

39:58 You're proud of your

40:00 Yes, I am. All right.

40:04 All right. Well, what about would you like to add anything else? Is there anything else you can think of?

40:11 They just did some but I can't think of nothing that you know, I just wish that I could sign.

40:20 Some of my best people

40:23 Not that I'm looking for nothing but nice to see if they know they have black relatives.

40:36 See do we have any resemblance? Haven't just love to see Dad wrap this up. Granny.

40:50 Thank you very much for your interview. That was awesome. And I'm going to wrap it up with something that your grandson Brad wrote for you in school 20 years ago or 18 years ago and 2000 MK.

41:10 So it says I went to the cotton fields at a young age and sneaks rocks into the SEC to give it weight no time for play and little for school. The cows called my name each morning the oldest daughter of a family of 10.

41:26 At work like a machine I cooked I cleaned and I worked all day my school day was a cool breeze on a hot day.

41:35 At 19 I married Ellis a mother and wife and recognizing the imminent fate. I saw the honeymoon was nearing the end and divorce proceedings would soon begin.

41:47 Shortly thereafter, I married John Bradley now married two times. This is it. I'm sure I knew this was it John's job was kind to us and provided plenty to eat a house of my own to clean and one.

42:05 To clean for my job

42:08 We traded the rubber buggy for an automobile, but several years later and a mother of four reality set in I could take it no more.

42:20 The changes I went through to find a stable life. So I tried it again and married Thrice.

42:27 This time it was Wilbert Houston a blind man a bold man a proud man. He willingly took on me and my crew what an adjustment he had to make and together we had to

42:42 It wasn't great. But we stayed together to his death. We parted now the feels no longer call, but the work has not stopped 74 years have passed and the chores are only occasional visitors Paris, New York, New Jersey, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Michigan Toronto, Chicago Haiti, Jamaica and Mexico. I felt your grasp and the recent year and enjoyed your company.

43:15 A life of hard work has paid off for Madea.

43:20 This poem is about the life of my grandmother, Georgia May Houston. We lovingly call Lydia.

43:30 And thanks.