Mary Lou Williams Rutgers Interview Block 690 (Q12878)

This was overheard. You see, my great-grand- parents were born I guess about a year after the slaves were freed. They were both very fair, my grandmother especially. Mygrandfather had blonde hair. She used to tell how they used to put them out in the sun and try to parch them black because they were very, very fair and my grandmother is too. I'd hear them tell all these tales and about the sla ...