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Frances

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5. My parents moved to Bay Minette (in Baldwin county)
Wed Feb 1, 2012, 10:01 AM
Feb 2012

from Linden (in Marengo County) back in 1941. I was 6 months old, and my parents brought my nanny with us when we moved.

At that time, Linden was totally segregated and the descendants of the slaves who lived there did not have an easy life. I remember my mother saying that white people there used to debate whether or not black people had souls.

But my nanny told my mother that she had to move back to Linden because "White people in Baldwin county did not know how to treat black people." She said she was treated much worse in Baldwin county than in Marengo County, which had a Ku Klux Klan mentality.



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And I thought I lived in a lousy county CanonRay Feb 2012 #1
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Eligible Law needs to be changed CAPHAVOC Feb 2012 #4
I think the politicians would impeach Obama Frances Feb 2012 #6
No doubt CAPHAVOC Feb 2012 #14
My parents moved to Bay Minette (in Baldwin county) Frances Feb 2012 #5
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