Felix Haywood
👤 Speaker
26
total appearances
Appearances Over Time
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The Man Who Took On The Klan
The end of the war, it came just like that.
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The Man Who Took On The Klan
How did you know the end of the war had come?
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The Man Who Took On The Klan
Felix Haywood, enslaved in Texas.
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The Man Who Took On The Klan
We all felt like heroes, and nobody had made us that way but ourselves.
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The Man Who Took On The Klan
We soon found out that freedom could make folks proud, but it didn't make them rich.
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The Man Who Took On The Klan
Were the colored people there afraid?
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The Man Who Took On The Klan
They were not so afraid at the start.
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The Man Who Took On The Klan
At the election, they were not afraid.
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The Man Who Took On The Klan
They went up and voted, every one of them, and some swam the river in order to, and some waited.
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The Man Who Took On The Klan
But after the coup clucking started, and they whipped some and killed some, and got their guns, they were scared.
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The Man Who Took On The Klan
In many cases, it was horrific, terrible.
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The Man Who Took On The Klan
They came to take me or kill me, I reckon.