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THE WORKING CLASS AND THE EMPLOYING CLASS HAVE NOTHING IN COMMONTHERE CAN BE NO SO LONG AS HUNGER AND WANT ARE FOUND AMONGMILLIONS OF WORKING PEOPLE AND THE FEW WHOMAKE THE CLASS HAVE ALL UP EMPLOYING THE GOOD THINGS OF LIFE BETWEEN THESE TWO CLASSES STRUGGLE MUST GOON UNTIL ALL THE TOILERS COME ON THE TOGETHER POLITICAL AS WELL AS ON THE INDUSTRIAL FIELD AND CAKE AND HOLD THAT WHICH THEY PRODUCE BY THCIR LABOR FROM THE CONSTITUTION OF THE INDUSTRIAL WORKERS OF THE WORLD 1905

WAS BORN ROXIE AMANDA DUNBAR BABY THEY CALLED ME AND NICKNAME WAS MY BABY WAS SURELY UNWANTED LAST CHILD WITH TWO BROTHERS AND LAURENCE ELEVEN HANK TWO AND SISTER VERA NINE WOULD ASK DADDY IF THEY HAD WANTED ME WHEN HE TOLD ME ABOUT THOSE HARD AND HE TIMES WOULD SAY SURE ELSE WOULDNT HAVE DOCTOR PAID TEN DOLLARS TO COME AND BIRTH YOU ONCE UNDERSTOOD HOW DESTITUTE HAD BEEN REALLY THEY REALIZED HE MEANT WHAT HE SAID YET ON MY BIRTH CERTIFICATE LISTED HIS DADDY OCCUPATION AS PROPRIETOR OF FEED STORE AND MAMAS AS HOUSEWIFE SOUNDING SO SECURE LIFE ON HOT LATE MY BEGAN SUMMER SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 10 1938 IN SAN ANTONIO TEXAS WAS BORN IN THE ONEROOM SHACK WHERE THE FIVE OF THEM LIVED BEHIND UNCLES HOUSE FOR THE MY FIRST THREE DAYS MY NAME WAS MARVEL NAMED AFTER MAMAS BEST FRIEND FAILED OPERA WHO IN SINGER SANG HONKYTONKS BUT MAMA HAD FIGHT WITH MARVEL AND DECIDED NOT TO NAME ME AFTER HER DADDY CAME UP WITH THE NAME ROXIE HE TOLD ME HE THAT ALWAYS SAW NAME ON MARQUEE IN NEW ORLEANS FRENCH QUARTER WHEN HE WENT THERE WITH SOME OTHER COW BOYS AS HE SAID THAT THE TEENAGER ROXIE CLUB WAS NAMED AFTER

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THE DAYS MY FATHER LIKED TO WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND SUMMER WOODS OF WESTERN NORTH AMERICA GLORY PRAYER MEETING BIBLE SCHOOL CAMP SMELL OF AND WHILE HE CLEANED HIS HUNTING RIFLE THE TENT REVIVALS MY PARENTS TRIED NOT TO ABOUT AND TELL STORIES ABOUT THEM FIGHT IT DADDY WOULD WITH THE EVEN GIVE ME DIME TO IN THE COLLECTION GUN OIL AND FLINT WENT STORY PUT PLATE UT HE THE AND TENANTS AND WOULDBREAK OUT PIE IN THE YOUR GRANDPA ORGANIZED ALL SHARECROPPERS SINGING SKY BYE AND BYE FROM WOBBLY ALL THEM FROM HERE TO TROUBADOURJOE HILLS PREACHER AND THE COTTON PICKERS AND WHEAT THRASHERS MIGRANTS SLAVE TO THE TUNE OF THE HYMN SCHOOL THE SWEET ELECTED TO THE SCHOOL BOARD THAT SAME BYE AND BYE AND MAMA WOULDSTEAM YON PAPA GOT HIMSELF THE SCHOOL NEXT TO THE KLAN TIME BUNCH OF LANDLORDS TRIED TO TAKE AND CHRISTIAN HYPOCRITES SCORNED YOU GO TO ONE DADDY ANY KIND RED WHITE AND BLUE FLAGS PAPA AND ALL US OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AUTHORITIES THE WITH GUNS WAVING THEIR WOBBLY CONSTITUTION SAID THAT WORKER IT OUT WITH THEM AND WE ANY WHOJOINED THE MILITIA BROTHERS HELD UP THERE FIVE DAYS SHOOTING ARMY OR EVEN POLICE FORCE WOULD BE DENIED FOREVER WHUPPED THEM GOOD MEMBERSHIP DESPITE MY GRANDFATHERS FORMER HOWOLD WERE YOU THEN DADDY AFFLUENCE WHEN MY PARENTS MAR NED IN BUT WAS SHOT PAPA ALWAYS 1927 THEY RETUMED TO PIEDMONT AS ABOUT YOUR AGE TEN ELEVEN GOOD SHARECROPPERS HIS WHEN HE MADE HIS ROUNDS WHYARE WESO POOR IF CHOSE ME TO RIDE SHOTGUN ON WAGON GRANDPA WAS RICH ASKED FATHER MY WOULD SHIFT HIS FROM THE DOCTORING EYES AWAY IVJW CONSTITUTION NO HOW TIMES AND STARE AT HIS HANDS HE WHAT DID THE WOBBLIES WANT ASKED MATTER MANY GNARLED DIDNT LIKE BEING REMINDED THAT WE OF DREAMS ABOLITION OF WERE POOR DOWN THE STREET LIVED TWO OF HIS HE TOLD ME LOVED TO HEAR HIS AGENDA WOBBLY MOTHERS SISTERS AMONG OF NO MILITARY THE WEALTHIEST FAMILIES IN INTEREST AND PROFITS PUBLIC OWNERSHIP EVERYTHING TOWN MEANING THEY HAD TWOSTORY HOUSES WITH THE OF WOMENAND ALL RACES THE RUNNING WATER AND BATHROOMS THE HOUSE DRAFT NO MILITARY NO POLICE EQUALITY BIG FAMILY WHERE MY AND SMILE TO HIMSELF LOST IN FATHER GREW STILL STOOD ONE OF THE HE WOULD UP SEVEN HOUSES IN BUT IT 0BU SAY BIG TOWN NO LONGER BELONGED TO OUR FAMILY MEMORY OF THE ELEC DID ALL UNTIL THE DUST BOWL THE WOBBLIES WERE MOSTLY ANARCHISTS AND SUSPICIOUS RIGHT AND THE DANGED DEPRESSION FOR EVEN RICH BANKERS OF THEM LIKE VOTED EUGENE WHY WERE OUT OF WINDOWS BACK TORAL SYSTEM BUT MANY MY GRANDFATHER JUMPING THEN HE RAN EXPLAINED IT DANGED ROOSEVELT DUMPED OUR IN THE DEBS AND THE SOCIALIST PARTY ALL FIVE TIMES DADDY CROPS OCEAN AND GOT THE BANK ERS BACK THEIR THAN SOME BY NINETEEN ON FEET THEN TRIED TO DRIVE US ALL OFF WAS DIFFERENT HERE IN PLACES WHY THE LAND WASNT MEMBERS OF THE SO ABOUT TO BE RUN OFF TO NO CALIFORNIA AND FOURTEEN OKLAHOMA HAD MORE DUESPAYING IN THE UNION TWELVE THOUSAND OSCAR AMERINGER BECAME THE SOCIALIST CIALIST PARTY THAN ANY OTHER STATE PARTY ORGANIZER IN OKLA OFFICE HOMA IN 1907 HE WAS DOUBTFUL ELECTED OVER HUNDRED SOCIALISTS TO ABOUT FARMERS IN HIS THAT YEAR THEY ORGANIZING DROVE ALL OUT ASKED 1940 AUTOBIOGRAPHY YOU DONT SO WHAT HAPPENED THAT THE KLAN YOU IF WEAKEN AMERINGER WROTE THAT HE HAD HIM AND THAT GANGSTER PAL ONCE REGARDED FARMERS AS THAT SONOFAGUN WOODROWWILSON CAPITALISTS NOT EXPLOITED WAGE LABORERS ALL AS THE HOOVER OUT THE IWW PUT THEM OWNERS OF THE MEANS OF PRODUCTION WITH MER AND HIS GOON EDGAR WIPED GREAT DEAL TO LOSE RICH WHEAT FROM SOCIALISM BUT THEM OUT OF THE THE DADGUMMED AFTER MEETING IN HARRAH THE TOWN WHERE IN JAIL OR KICKED COUNTRY MY SWELLED LIKE TICK NIGHT MOTHER HE WAS ASTONISHED TO FARMERS BANKROLLED THE KLAN THEY UP GREW UP DISCOVER AN AMERICA HE DID NOT KNOW BARNS AND LYNCHING BURNING EXISTED STARVING FARMERS THAN THE WHITE RIDING KILLING STOCK BURNING CROPS POORER AND BLACK WORKERS HE HAD BEEN ORGANIZING IN NEW ORLEANS CROSSES GOOD CHRISTIANS THEY WERE FREETHINKER WOULD LOWER HEAD BETWEEN 1906 AND 1917 THE WOBBLIES AND THE SOCIALIST DADDY LIKE HIS FATHER WAS MY PARTY WON WAS DEVOUT BAPTIST CONVERTS ON MASS SCALE IN OKLAHOMA WHENEVER HE TALKED ABOUT CHRISTIANS BECAUSE MY GRANDFATHER WAS ONE OF THE AND NEVER MISSED CHURCH FIRST THEY ADOPTED THE MAMA WAS HARDSHELL BAPTIST CONVERT RELIGIOUS EVANGELISTS TECHNIQUE OF HOLDING AND NIGHT HUGE WEEKLONG WITH CHARISMATIC SERVICE ONCE WE MOVED TO TOWN SUNDAY MORNING ENCAMPMENTS SPEAKERS MALE AND RED DIAPER BABY 15 RED DIRT 14 AND COULD TO THE MUSKOGEES THAT IS OUR MOST SACRED CEREMONY YOU EVANGELISTS WERE TOWNS INDEED MANY NEAR SMALL THE TIME OF NEW IT OCCURS WHENEVER FEMALE USUALLY AS LOCAL CALL IT OUR NEW YEAR BEGINNINGS SOCIALISTS WERE ELECTED CONVERTS TO SOCIALISM SOMETIMES AS AS LATE JUNE OR AS LATE AS THEMSELVES WITH RED FLAGS THE GREEN CORN COMES EARLY TOWNS WERE HUNG THE OF MANY THAT 1917 THE CORN CAME LATE DUR OFFICIALS AND LAMPPOSTS THE SOCIALISTS EARLY AUGUST DURING YEAR GREEN WERE HELD 205 MASS ENCAMPMENTS OF IT ON 1917 LN 1915 ALONE OF THE ING THE LAST WEEK JULY AND EARLY AUGUST WAS AUGUST OKLAHOMA BUT THEIR PERCENTAGE STATEWIDE RACE IN THE END OF OUR GREEN CORN THAT WE ROSE NEVER WON IN 1916 VOTING AT FOURDAY CEREMONY UP 1907 TO 16 PERCENT FROM IN THE GREEN CORN REBELLION AS MOMENT VOTE INCREASED PERCENT SOCIALIST CAN MY FATHER PORTRAYED GREAT IN 1914 THE CANDIDATE EUGENE DEBS FOR SOCIALIST PARTY SEATS OF HEROISM MOMENT OF UNITY BETRAYED BY THE ELECTRICLIGLIT CITY AND THEY WONSIX 21 OF THE VOTE WON PERCENT WHO SCORNED IT OF COURSE ABOUT WOBBLIES AND DIDATE FOR GOVERNOR LOCAL OFFICES IN SOCIALISTS NOTHING WITH MAJORITY OF ALONG TEXTBOOKS AND IN THE OKLAHOMA LEGISLATURES SOCIALISTS APPEARED IN MY US OR OKLAHOMA HISTORY PROCESS BUT IT WAS NOT PEACEFUL IN OKLAHOMA TEXTBOOKS EVEN SO BEGAN TO MANY COUNTIES VERY LITTLE APPEARS NOW ASKED DADDY WAS LOT OF SHOOTING DOUBT FATHERS STORIES ABOUT THE GREEN CORN REBELLION THERE WOBBLIES CUT TELE MY ESPECIALLY SHOOTING THAT AGAIN AND NOT JUST AND IN THE SIXTIES AS YOU CAN SAY SEWERS LT WHEN MOVED TO CALIFORNIA WAS SWEPT UP WATER MAINS AND AND DYNAMITED PIPELINES IN HERITAGE BUT PHONE WIRES OF THE STATE STUDENT GAINED NEW PRIDE MY WOBBLYSOCIALIST OVER IN THE EASTERN PART AROUND HERE BUT MAINLY THE GREEN CORN REBELLION UNTIL IT IN FIELD WAS ALL ANTONE AND NEARLY FORGOT REAPPEARED MY TOO DOWNIN SAN INDIANS IN IT NEGROES THE BOOK THE THEM WOBBLIES OF VISION IN THE MID1970S WHILE WAS WORKING ON OLD MEXICO BOY THE BROTHERS FROM 1973 LAKOTA THE VALLEY THEM MAGON GREAT SIOUX NATION WHICH GREW OUT OF THE UPRISING AT MEDICINE FROM OKLAHOMA THE LATE SURE PUT UP FIGHT INDIANS RISING WOUNDEDKNEE MUSKOGEE MAN WHITES AND SEMINOLE BLACKS AND AT FIRST IN OF POOR REFER DEERE TOLD ME STORY IN 1974 THAT SOUNDED FAMILIAR SPEAKING KNOWNOWTHAT DADDY WAS PHILIP OKLAHOMA DESCRIBED HIS OF IT AND WHAT TOGETHER IN EASTERN HE DID NOT NAME THE EVENT BUT MEMORY UP FROM IWW OR SOCIALIST PARTY EVENT SEPARATE TO SPONTANEOUS 1917 HE WAS TOLD HE WOULD HAVE BEEN ABOUT THE SAME AGE AS RING THE SUMMER OF GROWING UP CORN REBELLION DURING THE GREEN FATHER IN 1917 TEN OR ELEVEN YEARS OLD PHILIP RECALLED THE REBEL ORGANIZING AROUND IN SOUTHEASTERN MY WHEN WAS PORING DECEMBER 1994 LION INDIANCONCEIVED AND LED IN MET AN ELDERLY SEMI AS UNDERSTAND THAT REBELLION TO TO PHILIPS VER OKLAHOMA TRYING BEEN NINE SEARCHED FOR PUBLISHED INFORMATION TRYING VERIFY SAID THAT SHE HAD ONLY INDIAN WOMANWHO MENTIONED THE GREEN NOLE MUSKOGEE WHO SION BUT FOUND LITTLE INDEED THAT EVEN AND THAT HER UNCLE VERY BUT SHE REMEMBEREDIT OLD AT THE TIME CORN REBELLION FINALLY FOUND THE TYPESCRIPT OF 1959 UNDERGRADU YEARS REBELLION AND WAS IMPRISONED LEADER OF THE HIMSELF SHE SAID HAD BEEN ATE HARVARD UNIVERSITY HISTORY THESIS BY JOHN WOMACK JR OVER AND OVER HAD TOLD THE HEROIC STORY THE OF MEXICAN REVOLUTIONARY LEADER AFTERWARDS THE MOON OF THE FROM OKLAHOMA BIOGRAPHER IT WAS EARLY AUGUST FULL MOON OF LATE JULY SENIOR OF AT HARVARD THE WHITE AND BLACK EMILIANO ZAPATA AND NOW PROFESSOR HISTORY OUR POOR NOT EASY TO PERSUADE OF INDIAN GREEN CORN IT WAS STANDING BY 1890 BEFORE THE NATIVE AMERICAN REPUBLICS TERRITORY WE TOLD THEM THAT RISING UP AND SISTERS TO RISE UP DISSOLVED THE 1898 CURTIS ACT THAT VIOLATED TREATIES WITH THE BROTHERS FUTURE WERE BY WOULD INSPIRE GENERATIONS WHATEVER THE CONSEQUENCES NATIONS AND FORCED THEIR COMMUNAL INTO INDIVIDUAL UP AND COPIED THAT NATIVE HOLDINGS WOULD BE REMEMBERED OUR BRAVERY WHITE TENANTS HAD COME TO OUTNUMBER THE MDI OUR COURAGE INVASIONS FIGHT AND ALLOTMENTS ALREADY CENTURIES SINCE THE THE INDIAN WAY FOR THE LAW VIOLENCE AND HAS BEEN DESCENDANTS WILL ANS TWO TO ONE IN BREAKING WHOCOME AFTER OR THEIR SO THAT THOSE WERE THUS THE RULE NOT THE IN THAT REGION TELL THE STORY BUT THAT IS HOWWE CORRUPTION EXCEPTION TAKE THOUSAND YEARS ONCE AGAIN LT MAY THE FOR AN REBELLION RISE UP THE BLACKS STRUCK SETTING STAGE AGRARIAN AS IT TURNED OUT CONTINUE AND EVENTUALLY PREVAIL AND TIMES WERE HARD OVER 60 PERCENT OF MORTGAGED FARRRIS WERE THE GREEN CORN REBEL FIRST LOST TO FORECLOSURE DURING THE TWO YEARS BEFORE OF THE ASKED 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REBELS WELL LION MORE THAN HALF THE FARMS WERE WORKEDBY TENANTS THE RATES WERE ORGANIZED THEY DIVIDED THEMSELVES INTO DETAILS SOME TO RECRUIT ALL WHO HAD NOT THE OTHERS WERE EVEN HIGHER IN THE SOUTHEASTERN COUNTIES WHERE THE REBELLION YET JOINED REBELLION TO BURN BARNS ANOTHER TO BLOW THE TEXACO SEVERAL TOOK PLACE POTTAWATOMI SEMINOLE HUGHES AND PONTOTOC COUNTIES UP PIPELINE GROUPS TO RAILROAD AND CUT AND ONLY FIFTH OF THE FARMS IN THAT REGION WERE WORKEDBY THEIR OWNERS DESTROY BRIDGES TELEPHONE TELEGRAPH WIRES AND OTHERS TO TEAR DOWN FENCES AND FREE FARM ANIMALS AND HALF OF THOSE WERE UNDER HEAVY MORTGAGES THAT CARRIED USURIOUS TO TRAMPLE COTTON FIELDS AFTER OF DESTRUCTION INTEREST RATES OF 20 TO 200 PERCENT LONG SUMMER DAY THE 500 OR SO LA REBELS IN THEIR NEW LIBERATED ZONE TO CELEBRATE AND FARMING IN OKLAHOMA WAS COMMERCIAL WITH TENANTS AS WAGE CONGREGATED FEAST REST BORERS AND COTTON THE KING COTTON PRODUCTION DOUBLED BETWEEN 1909 AND 1919 MAKING OKLAHOMA THE FOURTHLARGEST COTTON PRO HOWEVER THE REACTION OF LOCAL TOWNSPEOPLE AGAINST THE REBELS WAS CASHANDCREDIT FIERCE TO HUNT THEM DOWN WHEN FACED DUCER AMONG THE STATES AND FIRMLY ESTABLISHING THEY ORGANIZED HUGE POSSES WITH ARMED THE ECONOMY THE OTHER MAJOR INDUSTRIES WERE OIL PRODUCTION AND COAL ANGRY CITIZENS REBELS DISPERSED GUERRILLASTYLE DUR THE MORE AND WHILE MINING WHICH SPAWNED BOOM TOWNS AND ATTRACTED LARGE POPULATIONS ING FOLLOWING DAYS WIRES WERE CUT BRIDGES HIT OF TRANSIENT WORKERS MORE AND MORE REBELS WERE CAPTURED PITCHED BATTLES TOOK PLACE AND

DRAFT SOLDIERS FOR THE FIRST WORLD HUNDREDS WERE ARRESTED WHEN THE GOVERNMENT BEGAN TO US INTO THE WAR THE WHITE BLACK AND RED FARMERS IN SOUTHEASTERN OKLAHOMA ENTRANCE EUROPEAN WAR IN 1917 PRODUCED WAVE OF AND BRUTAL BACKLASH THE ANTIWAR AND DECIDED TO RESIST THEIR STRATEGY WAS TO COME TOGETHER PATRIOTISM AGAINST WOBBLIES AND SEAL OFF AN AREA FROM OUTSIDE INTERFERENCE PERSUADE THEIR NEIGH SOCIALISTS IN OKLAHOMA THE SOCIALISTS BLAMED THE REPRESSION IN OKLA HOMA ON THE GREEN CORN REBELS CROSSES BURNED ALL OVER THE BORS TO JOIN AND THEN MARCH ALL THE WAY TO WASHINGTON DC PICK FIERY OVERTHROWPRESIDENT STATE AND THE RANKS AND RESOURCES OF THE KU KLUX KLAN ING UP RECRUITS ALONG THE WAY THERE THEY WOULD BURGEONED RESTORE TO THE KLAN SEIZED IN TEXAS AND ARKANSAS AND CAME WILSON STOP THE WAR AND REFORM THE DOMESTIC ECONOMY TO POLITICAL POWER IN FOR CLOSE IN OKLAHOMA WAS ONE OF THEIR VICTIMS THE WORKING CLASSES THE FULL PRODUCT OF THEIR LABOR PREPARATION MY GRANDFATHER RIVER TO WHEN CORE OF NATIVE WHITE THE FOOT SOL THE GREAT MARCH THEY BURNED BRIDGES ACROSS THE CANADIAN GROUP AMERICANS VERY AND DIERS OF SOCIALIST AND EVEN KEEP THEIR LIBERATED AREA ISOLATED THEY CUT TELEPHONE TELEGRAPH EMPIRE BEGAN TURNING ANTIIMPERIALIST CONFIS FROM WHITE THE AND OTHER WIRES SO THE BESIEGED COULD NOT CALL FOR HELP THEY PLANNED TO INCHING AWAY SUPREMACY GOVERNMENT CEN FARMS TERS OF ACTED SWIFTLY AND TO CRUSH THE CATE PROPERTY IN THE TOWNS AND ON THE SURROUNDING ANYONE POWER VICIOUSLY RELENTLESSLY THE THAT THE MOVEMENT WAVE OF THE THE WHOOPPOSED THEM WAS TO BE CONSCRIPTED IN SAME WAY PROPAGANDA ACCOMPANIED REPRESSION THAT LOCAL DW GRIFFITH FILM THE THE BIRTH HAD FEDERAL GOVERNMENT CONSCRIPTED ITS TROOPS THEY AGREED ANY EXTOLLING KKK OF NATION AL AND IN 1915 AFTER THE VICTORIES OF THE RUSSIAN AND MEXI AUTHORITIES WHO TRIED TO STOP THEM WOULD BE MET WITH GUNFIRE READY APPEARED WOULDBE CAN REVOLUTIONS RED SCARE FLOODED AND POISONED FOOD AND WELL WATER THEY BELIEVED THEY JOINED BY PROPAGANDA NEWSPAPERS AND THAT THE AND THE AND FORMED THE MAIN TEXT OF SERMONS THE LANDLESS THE WORKING PEOPLE ARMIES OF OTHER STATES IWW MAGAZINES AGRARI OF OKLAHOMA LEFT WITH AND FOUR RAILROAD BROTHERHOODS WOULD SUPPORT THEM FOR VICTORIOUS ANS WERE RECOLLECTION OF HARD TIMES HATRED FOR AND FOR THE RICH AND BUT ALSO MARCH ON WASHINGTON WHERE THEY WOULD THEN TAKE CONTROL SINCE BIG GOVERNMENT POWERFUL WITH THE OF FAILED MOVEMENT MOST OF THE US MILITARY WOULD ALREADY BE IN EUROPE OR FIGHTING MEMORY AND OKLAHOMA PANCHO VILLA IN MEXICO REPRESSION WAS KEPT UNDER CAREFUL SURVEILLANCE BEFORE THE AS MILBURN LEARNED FROM PROFESSOR WOMACKSACCOUNT THAT GROUP OF AFRI LONG MCCARTHY ERA REPORTED BY GEORGE IN 1946 CANAMERICANS DID INDEED SET OFF THE REBELLION IN EARLY BLACK REBELS SHERIFF AND HIS DEPUTY WERE FIRED ON BY SOME THIRTY INVOLVED THE IT IS CRIMINAL OFFENSE FOR EXAMPLE IN OKLAHOMA TO HAVE OF KARL MARXS HUNDREDSOF POOR WHITES AND MUSKOGEE INDIANS WERE COPY 18 RED DIRT RED DIAPER BABY 19

DAS IN ONS LIBRARY AND SUSPECTED OF POSSESSING SEDITIOUS LITERA TO HAVE HEARD THEM AS CHILDREN AND UNTIL BROTHER KAPITAL ANYONE MY HANK GOT LIABLE AND ARREST CERTAIN CITIZENS HAVE LURE IS TO SEARCH SEIZURE INDEED SCHOLARLY DADDY TO TELL HIS STORY FOR AN ORAL HISTORY OF PIEDMONT HE HAD NEVER BEEN AND FACED WITH BECAUSE SOBER PROSECUTEDCRIMINALLY PENITENTIARY SENTENCES HEARD THEM FROM DADDY AND THINK HE HADNT BELIEVED ME BEFORE

POLITICAL TREATISES REGARDED AS CLASSICS ELSEWHERE IN OKLAHOMA ARE EVEN MORE DADDY SHOCKED ME RECENTLY WHEN HE TOLD ME ABOUT HOW BRUTALLY ILLICIT THAN BOTTLE OF BOOTLEG BOOZE HIS FATHER HAD BEAT HIM AS TEENAGER HAD NEVER BEFORE HEARD HIM UTTER SINGLE NEGATIVE WORDABOUT HIS FATHER BOY IT HURT AND SOME SO TALK ABOUT MY GRANDFATHER AND THE WOBBLIES AND GREEN CORN TIMES PUT ME IN BED HE USED HORSEWHIP AFTER WAS ABOUT TWELVE REBELS THINNED AS THE NEW RED SCARE ESCALATED RED IN THE FAMILY SEEMS LIKE HE HAD IT IN FOR ME AND THATS WHY RUN OFF WHEN TURNED

BE OF THE ABOUT OUR SIXTEEN COULDNT TAKE IT TREE WAS NO LONGER SOMETHING TO PROUD RAGE NO MORE HE SAID TEARS FILLING HIS FADING

POVERTY WAS COVERED OVER WITH PRIDE FOR JUST BEING WHITE AND REAL BLUE EYES AMERICANS THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN 1919 TO 1923 WHEN THE WOBBLY AND SO MYSELF GREW FIERCELY PATRIOTIC TEARS BRIMMED IN MY EYES WHEN CIALIST MOVEMENTS WERE BEING CRUSHED AND THE KLAN WAS ON THE RISE

HEARD THE STAR SPANGLED BANNER OR PLEDGED ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG AND MY GRANDFATHER AND HIS FAMILY WERE TARGETS OF KKK VIOLENCE FOR DUNBAR HAD TAKEN WON FIRST PRIZE IN COUNTY SPEECH CONTEST MY ORIGINAL ORATION GRANDPA OUT HIS FRUSTRATION ON HIS MOST DEVOTED AMERICA IS GREAT BECAUSE AMERICA IS GOOD SPENT THE SUMMER OF DISCIPLE

1954 AVIDLY WATCHING THE ARMYMCCARTHY HEARINGS ON TELEVISION

ROOTING FOR MCCARTHY ADORING THE YOUNG ROY COHN DOUBTED MY FATHERS STORIES AND MY FATHER NO LONGER TOLD THE STORIES DURING THE KOREAN WAR SOLD VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS CREPE DRAFTED AND HOME PAPER ROSES SEVERAL YOUNGMEN IN TOWN WERE CAME WOUNDEDONE OF THE BOYS WHORETURNED SAT WITH MY BROTHER AND ME AND OUR COUSINS AND TOLD US ABOUT KOREA WHY WERE RICH HERE IN OKLAHOMA BY COMPARISON THEYRE LUCKY TO EAT SPOONFUL OF RICE OLD ONCE DAY WE WENT THROUGH THIS ONE LITTLE VILLAGE AND SEEN AN MAN LOOKED TO BE HUNDRED ALL DRIED UP AND WRINKLED JUST DIED IN AND WAS AT FRONT US STOPPED TO PAY MY RESPECTS AS LOOKING HIM WONDERING WHAT HIS LIFE HAD BEEN LIKE OUT COMES THIS GIANT WHITE THING FROM HIS MOUTH DAMNED TAPEWORM FIVE FOOT LONG AND WE FELT LUCKY TO BE FREE AMERICANS FIGHTING COMMUNISM PROUD OF OUR

COUNTRY FOR HELPING OTHERS FATHER HE BELIEVES HIS FATHER BEEN TODAY MY SAYS REGRETTED HAVING WOBBLY AND SOCIALIST AND THAT HE HAD BEEN HOODWINKED BY COM

MUNISTS DONT BELIEVE IT FOR MINUTE RATHER THINK HE WANTS TO

FORGET HIS FATHERS AND MY IDEALISM WHICH COULD GET ME INTO TROUBLE YET WHEN WAS STUDENT DURING THE SIXTIES IN CALIFORNIA DADDYS STORIES OF MY WOBBLY GRANDFATHER WERE MY GUIDING LIGHT AND FOR THAT

AM FOREVER GRATEFUL WHAT REMAINS MYSTERIOUS TO ME IS WHY MY FATHER TOLD ME THOSE STORIES MY OLDER BROTHERS AND SISTER CLAIM NEVER