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Mrs. Bessie Haygood

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Mrs. Haygood is a black, middle-aged wife and mother who came to Savannah when segregation was at its height. "I remember the time when the boycott was on Broughton Street we would hav sin-ins there and a lot of my people was hurt. A lot of police here were brutal to them. And I didn't like the idea of them putting gas and water hoses on our people."

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Lane Library. Special Collections

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Digital Library of Georgia

Keywords

  1. African American Churches
  2. African American Women
  3. African Americans
  4. Civil Rights
  5. Education
  6. Employment
  7. Georgia
  8. History
  9. Hoodoo (Cult)
  10. Interviews
  11. Race Relations
  12. Savannah
  13. Savannah (Ga.)
  14. Segregation
  15. Women

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