I posted something not long ago about my experiences as a child. I gave away my age [so what] by saying I was born 80 years after the Civil War ended. What I remember were actual Ghettos.....houses no more than shacks. I remember one of our maids used to take old newspapers home. Always wondered why until I was at her house and saw that the newspapers were used as insulation. Yes, we had 'colored maids'. The most memorable was Eva P. Womble. She was a retired College Professor working fo... moreI posted something not long ago about my experiences as a child. I gave away my age [so what] by saying I was born 80 years after the Civil War ended. What I remember were actual Ghettos.....houses no more than shacks. I remember one of our maids used to take old newspapers home. Always wondered why until I was at her house and saw that the newspapers were used as insulation. Yes, we had 'colored maids'. The most memorable was Eva P. Womble. She was a retired College Professor working for $5 a day cleaning white people's houses. I remember one day in the early 1950s she brought her grandson, Buzz, to work with her. I learned so much that day. We played like any other friends. Said it before and will say it again...the segregation [my schools were all white] deprived every one of us of so much....especially understanding
