Audio clip from interview with Rejoyce Williams, June 12, 1996
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Williams, Rejoyce White, Claytee D
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Part of an interview with Rejoyce Williams, June 12, 1996. In this clip, Williams talks about working as a hotel maid and avoiding trouble when she was accused of stealing.Did you ever have any unpleasant incidents with any of the hotel guests? Well, one time - well, a couple of times. I remember one time I was doing a room. My inspectress was in there with me. She came in. She was white. I was doing the room. She was going through guests' clothing and stuff, looking at it and going on. And I know that they had a paper bag sitting on the dresser and it was filled up with cigarettes. So I went on in the athroom. I was doing the bathroom and everything and I was doing all this work. She was still bin there and she was talking about how pretty the clothes and stuff was and she was taking them down and looking at them and going on. So the next day when I went to work, the security guard came up to me, came up where I was working, which I worked on the 16th floor. He asked me, he said, "What's your name?" And I told him my name. He said, "Did you do room" - I forgot what the number of the room was -"Did you do that room yesterday?" I said, "Yes, wh
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