Hodgetwins
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I'm glad I didn't grow up doing that time.
Well, my master said, he sit.
I said, yes, sir, master.
We sit.
Hey, Jesse, explain to us what it was like growing up during the Civil Rights Movement, Jim Crow and all that.
How was it for blacks?
Before the Civil Rights Movement, it was amazing.
Yeah.
Yeah.
You know, you hear these stories that blacks and whites did not get along.
That's not true.
I'm sure you can find bad people in all groups, but we treated each other the way we liked to be treated.
When I saw white people, I treated them the same way they treated me the same way they would do anyone.
And it didn't change until, I do remember going to a movie theater once down in Eufaula, Alabama.
And the blacks had to sit in the balcony.
But I was a teenager.
I didn't mind because we had a better view.
We could see better up there.
But it still wasn't just animosity that we've been told.
My family owned land.