Abbey Lincoln Smithsonian Interview Block 9 (Q11767)

She said -- mama said she taught her how to read and write and she taught my father to read and write, but it was his second marriage and so she wasn't a school teacher. She didn't teach school when she was married to my grandfather. She used to do day work, wash. She would wash and iron. Mama said she would pick up bundles of clothes and they'd pick coal off of the railroads. It was an humble ...